Discretionary use of involuntary commitment by case managers of mental health clients: A case study of divergent views

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 397-411

  Encandela, John A ^a   Korr, Wynne ^b   Lidz, Charles W ^c   Mulvey, Edward P ^d   Slawinski, Tonya ^e  

^a 2217 Cathedral of Learning ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Prof Development Specialists Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Case management; Decision making; Involuntary commitment; Mental health; Worker discretion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033275273     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022826314561     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Abbott, Andrew. (1988). The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago: University of Chicago.
2. Abbott, Ann. (1988). Professional Choices: Values at Work. Silver Spring, MD: National Association of Social Workers.
3. Aiken, L.H. (Mechanic, D., Ed.) (1983). Nurses. In Handbook of Health, Health Care, and the Health Professions. New York: Free Press. Pp. 407-431.
4. Becker H.S., Geer B., Hughes E.G., & Strauss A., Eds. (1976). Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School. New York: Transactions.
5. D'Elia, V.L. (1988). Physicians' liaisons increase admissions. Health Care Strategic Management, 6, 4-6.
6. Dennis, D.L. & Monahan, J., Eds. (1996). Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment: A New Frontier in Mental Health Law. New York: Plenum.
7. Feld, S. & Radin, N. (1982). Social Psychology for Social Work and the Mental Health Professions. New York: Columbia University Press.
8. Fox, R.C. (Merton, R.K., Reader, G., & Kendel, P., Eds.) (1957). Training for uncertainty. In The Student-Physician. Cambridge: Harvard University.
9. Fox, R.C. (Aiken, L.H. & Mechanic, D. Eds.) (1986). Medicine, Science, and Technology. In Applications of Social Science to Clinical Medicine and Health Policy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University.
10. Fox, R.C. & Leif, H. (Leif H., Leif, V., & Leif, N., Eds.) (1963). Training for detached concern in medical students. In Psychological Basis of Medical Practice. New York: Harper & Row.
11. Fox, R.C., Aiken, L.H., & Messikomer C.M. (1990). The culture of caring: AIDS and the nursing profession.· Milbank Quarterly, 68, 2, 226-256.
12. Freidson, E. (1988). Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago.
13. Gardner W.P., Hoge S.K., Bennett N.S., Roth L.H., Lidz C.W., Monahan J., & Mulvey E.P. (1993). Two scales for measuring patients' perceptions of coercion during mental hospital admission. Behavior Sciences and the Law 11, 307-321.
14. Garvin, C. & Seabury, B. (1984). Interpersonal practice in social work: Process and procedures. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
15. Geller, J. L. (1993). On being committed to treatment in the community. Innovations and Research 2(1):23-27.
16. Gottlieb, G.L. (1995). The changing marketplace for mental health services: The challenge for freestanding psychiatry. Psychiatric Annals, 25, 500-503.
17. Handler J.F. (Hasenfeld, Y., Ed.) (1992). Dependency and discretion. Human Services as Complex Organizations. Newbury Park: Sage.
18. Harris C., Hicks L.L., & Kelly B.J. (1992). Physician-hospital networking: Avoiding a shotgun wedding. Health Care Management Review, 17, 17-28.
19. Hasenfeld, Y., Ed. (1992), Human Services as Complex Organizations. New York: Sage.
20. Hiday, V.A. (1992). Coercion in civil commitment: Processes, preferences and outcome. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 15, 259-377.
21. Hoge S.K., Lidz C.W., Mulvey E.P., Roth L.H., Bennett N.S., Siminoff L.A., & Monahan J.P. (1993). Patient, family and staff perceptions of coercion in mental hospital admission: An exploratory study. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 11, 281-294.
22. Kopels, S. (1995). Private and public psychiatric hospitalization after Zinermon v. Burch. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 22, 607-620.
23. Leininger, M.M. (1980). Caring: A central focus of nursing and health care services. Nursing and Health Care, 1, 135-143.
24. Leininger, M.M. (1984). Care: The Essence of Nursing and Health. Thorofare, New Jersey: Slack, Inc.
25. Lewis, D., Goetz, E., Schoenfield, M., Gordon, A., & Griffin, E. (1984). The negotiation of involuntary civil commitment. Law and Society Review, 18, 629-649.
26. Lidz C.W. & Mulvey E.P. (Weisz, G., Ed.) (1990). Institutional factors affecting psychiatric admissions and commitment decisions. Social Science Perspectives on Mental Ethics. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
27. Lidz C.W., Mulvey E.P., Arnold R.M., Bennett N.S., & Kirsch M.A. (1993). Coercive interactions in a psychiatric emergency room. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 11, 269-280.
28. Lidz C.W., Hoge S.K., Gardner W.P., Bennett N.S., Monahan J.S., Mulvey E.P., & Roth L.H. (1995). Perceived coercion in mental hospital admission: Pressures and process. Archives of General Psychiatry, 52, 1034-1039.
29. Mechanic, D. (1968). Medical Sociology. New York: Free Press.
30. Nicholson, R.A., Ekenstam, C., & Norwood, S. (1996). Coercion and the outcome of psychiatric hospitalization. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 19, 201-217.
31. Reverby, S.M. (1987). Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945. New York: Cambridge University.
32. Rogers, A. (1993). Coercion and 'voluntary' admission: An examination of psychiatric patient views. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 11, 259-267.
33. Rooney, R. (1992). Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients. New York: Columbia University.
34. Schwartz, S.J., Lcostanzo, C.E. (1987). Compelling Treatment in the Community: Distorted Doctrines and Violated Values. Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 20: 1329-1429.
35. Shortel, S., & Kalzuny A.P. (1994). Health Care Management: Organizational Behavior and Design (3rd ed.). Albany, New York: Delmar Publishers.
36. Sledge, W.H., Astrachan, B., Thompson, K., Rakfeldt, J., Leaf, P. (1995). Case management in psychiatry: an analysis of tasks. American Journal of Psychiatry 152(9), 1259-1265.
37. Starr, P. (1984). The Social Transformation of American Medicine, New York: Basic Books.
38. Winick, B.J. (1994). How to handle voluntary hospitalization after Zinermon v Burch. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 21, 395-406.
39. Zola, I.K. (1963). Problems of communication, diagnosis and patient care: The interplay of patient, physician, and clinic organization. Journal of Medical Education, XXXVIII, 829-830.