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No longer a one‐man job?: On day activities in mental health care in Sweden
Author(s) -
Hansson J.H.,
Tengvald K.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 0907-2055
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2397.1993.tb00038.x
Subject(s) - mentally ill , mental health , work (physics) , mental health care , power (physics) , social psychiatry , field (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , joint venture , public relations , psychiatry , nursing , political science , medicine , mental illness , business , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , commerce , computer science , pure mathematics , programming language
Swedish psychiatry is organizationally 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 organizationally new field focusing on the activities of daily living is developing, however. This was surveyed nationally (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 organizational 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.