TY - BOOK ID - 77892337 TI - Everyday ethics PY - 2013 SN - 1283860341 0520954513 9780520267121 0520267125 9781283860345 9780520954519 9780520954526 0520954521 0520274792 9780520274792 9781283919203 1283919206 9780520274785 0520274784 PB - Berkeley DB - UniCat KW - Infants KW - Newborn infants KW - Child development KW - Infant development KW - Baby care KW - Infant care KW - Care. KW - Development. KW - Care and hygiene KW - Community Mental Health Services. KW - Community Mental health services. KW - Community Psychiatry - ethics. KW - Community psychiatry -- Ethics. KW - Infants - Care. KW - Infants - Development. KW - Mental disorders. KW - Mental health services. KW - Newborn infants - Care. KW - Newborn infants - Development. KW - Power (Psychology). KW - Community mental health services KW - Community psychiatry KW - Psychiatrists KW - Community Psychiatry KW - Alienists KW - Psychopathologists KW - Mental health personnel KW - Physicians KW - Neurologists KW - Psychiatry, Community KW - Community psychology KW - Psychiatry KW - Mental health clinics KW - Alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization KW - Community health services KW - Mental health services KW - Assertive Community Treatment KW - Health Services, Community Mental KW - Services, Community Mental Health KW - Services, Mental Health Community KW - Mental Health Services, Community KW - Community Treatment, Assertive KW - Treatment, Assertive Community KW - Professional ethics KW - ethics. KW - anthropology. KW - attachment. KW - biological bridge. KW - bonding. KW - caretakers. KW - childbirth. KW - children. KW - early life. KW - engaging. KW - family. KW - fetal life. KW - fourth trimester. KW - gender studies. KW - health care delivery. KW - intense development. KW - loving attention. KW - newborn babies. KW - newborn development. KW - newborn. KW - nutrition. KW - operating manual. KW - page turner. KW - parenting advice. KW - parenting babies. KW - parenting. KW - practical information. KW - pregnancy. KW - self help. KW - sensory development. KW - sleep patterns. KW - autonomy. KW - bioethics. KW - biopsychiatry. KW - career. KW - coercion. KW - community psychiatry outreach team. KW - compassionate advocates. KW - ethical dilemmas. KW - everyday struggles. KW - fieldwork. KW - forced dependency. KW - formal bioethics. KW - front line providers. KW - government and governing. KW - health. KW - human condition. KW - intense. KW - marginalized individuals. KW - medical ethics. KW - medical. KW - mental health clinicians. KW - mental health. KW - moral lives. KW - political. KW - politics. KW - private confessions. KW - psychology. KW - realistic. KW - social science. KW - social workers. KW - us healthcare system. KW - Psychiatric ethics. KW - Medical ethics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892337 AB - 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 and compassionate advocates. At times they openly question the coercion and forced-dependency built into the current system of care. At other times they justify their use of extreme power in the face of loud opposition from clients. This in-depth study exposes the fault lines in today's community psychiatry. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility. Their commentaries about the obligatory and the forbidden also suggest ways to bridge formal bioethics and the realities of mental health practice. The experiences of these clinicians pose a single overarching question: how should we bear responsibility for the most vulnerable among us? ER -