Trusting on the Edge: Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems - Hardcover

Brown, Patrick; Calnan, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847428894 ISBN 13: 9781847428899

Publisher: Policy Press, 2012

Synopsis

A basic component of many social interactions, trust is especially vital within the context of severe mental illness. The heightened uncertainty and vulnerability of psychosis provides researchers a crucible within which to examine a number of questions central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust. Empirically analyzing how trust between users and providers of mental health services develops or falters, Patrick Brown and Michael Calnan ground these abstract concerns in concrete reality and shed new light on how best to assist this vulnerable population.

About this title

About the Author

Patrick Brown is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Michael Calnan is professor of medical sociology at the University of Kent and the author of The New Sociology of the Health Service.

Review

“An important analysis of trust in relation to mental health care, showing clearly how an instrumentalised focus on 'risk' is in crucial respects antithetical to a personal focus required to build trust; and that how well trust is established at one level in an organisation strongly influences its development at others.”--George Szmukler, King's College London  (George Szmukler)

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847428894
• ISBN 13: 9781847428899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144