TY - JOUR
T1 - Frying eggs or making a treatment plan?
T2 - Frictions between different modes of caring in a community mental health team
AU - Muusse, Christien
AU - Kroon, Hans
AU - Mulder, Cornelis L.
AU - Pols, Jeannette
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this article, we conduct an empirical ethics approach to unravel the different perspectives on good care that are present in a community mental health team (CMHT) in Utrecht. With the deinstitutionalisation of mental health care, the importance of a close collaboration between the social and medical domains of care on the level of the local community is put in the foreground. Next to organisational thresholds or incentives, this collaboration is shaped by different notions of what good mental health care should entail. Using the concept of modes of ordering care (Moser 2005), we describe five modes of ordering mental health care that are present in the practice of the CMHT: the medical specialist, the juridical, the community, the relational and the bureaucratic perspective. These different modes of ordering care lead to frictions and misunderstandings, but are mutually enhancing at other times. Unravelling these different modes of ordering care can facilitate collaboration between professionals of different care domains and support a mutual understanding of what needs to be done. More so, the analysis foregrounds that ordering care from a relational approach is important in daily practice, but is in need of stronger legitimation.
AB - In this article, we conduct an empirical ethics approach to unravel the different perspectives on good care that are present in a community mental health team (CMHT) in Utrecht. With the deinstitutionalisation of mental health care, the importance of a close collaboration between the social and medical domains of care on the level of the local community is put in the foreground. Next to organisational thresholds or incentives, this collaboration is shaped by different notions of what good mental health care should entail. Using the concept of modes of ordering care (Moser 2005), we describe five modes of ordering mental health care that are present in the practice of the CMHT: the medical specialist, the juridical, the community, the relational and the bureaucratic perspective. These different modes of ordering care lead to frictions and misunderstandings, but are mutually enhancing at other times. Unravelling these different modes of ordering care can facilitate collaboration between professionals of different care domains and support a mutual understanding of what needs to be done. More so, the analysis foregrounds that ordering care from a relational approach is important in daily practice, but is in need of stronger legitimation.
KW - CARE
KW - ETHICS
KW - PSYCHIATRY
KW - SELF
KW - WORK
KW - community mental health care
KW - continuity of care
KW - deinstitutionalisation
KW - modes of ordering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109399211&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-9566.13346
DO - 10.1111/1467-9566.13346
M3 - Article
SN - 0141-9889
VL - 43
SP - 1581
EP - 1597
JO - Sociology of Health & Illness
JF - Sociology of Health & Illness
IS - 7
ER -