Meds, Money, and Manners

Download or read book Meds, Money, and Manners written by Jerry Floersch and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both textbook and practical knowledge to assist clients with managing their medication and their money? Using ethnographic and historical-sociological methods, Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness uncovers unexpected differences between written and oral accounts of case management in practice. In the process, it suggests the possibility of small acts of resistance and challenges the myth of social workers as agents of state power and social control.