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Telecare as institutional interaction: checking up on the client and creating continuity
- Authors:
- RASANEN Jenni-Mari, SAARIO Sirpa
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Technology in Human Services, 33(3), 2015, pp.205-224.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article studies the functions of telecare-mediated discussions in a mental health floating support service in Finland. Home Screen, the telecare studied, is a touchscreen computer software that enables real-time audiovisual contact between users. The results indicate that Home Screen functions as a medium to discuss and check clients’ current situation and to sum up and plan their goals. The functions of Home Screen are not stable, but instead they are produced and negotiated in the interaction. Portraying Home Screen as a transitional device, this article supports the view that telecare enables clients to remain in their homes while receiving the care needed. (Edited publisher abstract)
The open dialogue approach to acute psychosis: its poetics and micropolitics
- Authors:
- SEIKKULA Jaakko, OLSON Mary E.
- Journal article citation:
- Family Process, 42(3), 2003, pp.403-418.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a network-based, language approach to psychiatric care, Open Dialogue, which has emerged in Finland. The approach includes two levels of analysis, the poetics and the micropolitics. The poetics include three principles: tolerance of uncertainty, dialogism, and polyphony in social networks. A treatment meeting shows how these poetics operate to generate a therapeutic dialogue. The micropolitics are the larger institutional practices that support this way of working and are part of Finnish Need-Adapted Treatment. Recent research suggests that Open Dialogue has improved outcomes for young people in a variety of acute, severe psychiatric crises, such as psychosis, as compared to treatment-as-usual settings.