No longer a one-man job? On day activities in mental health care in Sweden

Authors:
HANSSON J-H., TENGVALD K.
Journal article citation:
Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 2(4), October 1993, pp.186-196.
Publisher:
Munksgaard/ Blackwell

Swedish psychiatry is organisationally in line with the international development of closing down the old large mental hospitals. As in other countries, problems of provision of care for severely mentally ill people can be observed. An organisationally new field focusing on the activities of daily living is developing, however. This was surveyed nationally in Spring 1991 and parts of these results are presented and discussed. The field is characterized by profound uncertainty manifested in the fact that psychiatry is no longer doing the work alone. Local social services take on a growing responsibility trying to make claims on how to define the work even if psychiatry is dominant, both in organisational and discursive power. Promising characteristics in joint venture units set up between psychiatry and local social services opens up for discussions on who, in what ways and with what means these new forms of care are going to be pursued.

Subject terms:
joint working, mental health problems, psychiatric social work, community care, deinstitutionalisation;
Content type:
research
Location(s):
Sweden
Link:
Journal home page
ISSN print:
0907-2055

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