TY - JOUR
T1 - Uncertainty work
T2 - Dealing with a psychiatric crisis in two European community mental health teams
AU - Roelofke Muusse, C.G.
AU - Mulder, C. L.
AU - Kroon, H.
AU - Pols, J.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The quest for how to deal with a crisis in a community setting, with the aim of deinstitutionalizing mental health care, and reducing hospitalization and coercion, is important. In this article, we argue that to understand how this can be done, we need to shift the attention from acute moments to daily uncertainty work conducted in community mental health teams. By drawing on an empirical ethics approach, we contrast the modes of caring of two teams in Utrecht and Trieste. Our analysis shows how temporality structures, such as watchful waiting, are important in dealing with the uncertainty of a crisis.
AB - The quest for how to deal with a crisis in a community setting, with the aim of deinstitutionalizing mental health care, and reducing hospitalization and coercion, is important. In this article, we argue that to understand how this can be done, we need to shift the attention from acute moments to daily uncertainty work conducted in community mental health teams. By drawing on an empirical ethics approach, we contrast the modes of caring of two teams in Utrecht and Trieste. Our analysis shows how temporality structures, such as watchful waiting, are important in dealing with the uncertainty of a crisis.
KW - community mental health care
KW - deinstitutionalisation
KW - italy
KW - netherlands
KW - temporality structures
KW - uncertainty work
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184931034&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01459740.2024.2310857
DO - 10.1080/01459740.2024.2310857
M3 - Article
VL - 43
SP - 247
EP - 261
JO - Medical Anthropology
JF - Medical Anthropology
IS - 3
ER -