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Power and Control in Mental Health Social Work
Community Care and Involuntary Intervention
Series: Research in Social Work
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Power and Control in Mental Health Social Work sits at the heart of statutory social work. In a profession grounded in social justice, practices of control are often positioned as reinforcing inequality and oppression. Yet normative critiques of control embedded within conflictual theories of power can...
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Power and Control in Mental Health Social Work sits at the heart of statutory social work. In a profession grounded in social justice, practices of control are often positioned as reinforcing inequality and oppression. Yet normative critiques of control embedded within conflictual theories of power can lead to overlooking the complex realities of everyday practice.
Drawing on practitioner and service user interviews, case file analysis and detailed observations, this book offers a rare ethnographic account of how control is enacted, negotiated and experienced in community mental health settings. Informed by Foucauldian conceptions of power, it moves beyond abstract debate to examine what control looks like on the ground.
Combining original research with critical analysis, it reveals the value of an ethically informed but non-prescriptive approach to the ambiguities of control, allowing for a more modest, honest and heterogenous orientation to progressive forms of practice.
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Power and Control in Mental Health Social Work
Power and Control in Mental Health Social Work sits at the heart of statutory social work. In a profession grounded in social justice, practices of control are often positioned as reinforcing inequality and oppression. Yet normative critiques of control embedded within conflictual theories of power can lead to overlooking the complex realities of everyday practice. Drawing on practitioner and service...Hardback$36200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781447369516
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Policy Press
Illustration: 6 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 186
About the Author
Hannah Jobling is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York, with interests including mental health social work, social work across time and place and community-based approaches to social support.
Mark Hardy is Honorary Fellow in Social Work in the School for Business and Society at the University of York. He writes on social work theory and practice, particularly the nature of risk within mental health and forensic social work.
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