Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry

by Paul Brodwin and Paul E. Brodwin

Book Overview

This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street, in staff room debates, or in private confessions, these psychiatrists and social workers confront ongoing challenges to their self-image as competent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520274792
• ISBN13: 9780520274792
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"