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Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health: Knowledge, Power and Hope in an Age of Bureaucratic Accountability

Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health: Knowledge, Power and Hope in an Age of Bureaucratic Accountability

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Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health aims to improve interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration in mental healthcare research by involving clinicians and patients and focusing on the organizational context. It explores how clinical thinking, behavior, illness experience, and clinical relationships are shaped by bureaucracy and proposes new ways of organizing mental healthcare research.

Format: Hardback
Length: 180 pages
Publication date: 07 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd


Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health aims to revolutionize the field of mental healthcare research, fostering a more fruitful interdisciplinary exchange. Often, individuals involved in mental health fail to grasp how they are portrayed by researchers from the humanities and social sciences, hindering effective collaboration. This book seeks to rectify this issue by involving clinicians and patients in the research process and redirecting attention from power and knowledge to the organizational context. It delves into how clinical thinking, behavior, illness experiences, and clinical relationships are intricately shaped by the bureaucratic environment. Specifically, it examines the tensions between the desired outcomes of mental healthcare and the practical workings of accountable bureaucracies, proposing that mental healthcare research should go beyond evaluating new interventions and explore innovative ways of organizing.

Written with a non-specialist audience in mind, this book is designed for anyone with a stake in mental healthcare research and practice. It also appeals to those interested in ethnographic methods, offering a fresh approach to deploying ethnography, autoethnography, and coproduced ethnography to address clinically significant research topics. By bridging the gap between different disciplines and perspectives, Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health strives to create a more comprehensive and impactful understanding of mental healthcare and its delivery.

Weight: 510g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367722937

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