Professional tensions in client-centered practice: Using institutional ethnography to generate understanding and transformation

American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-28

  Townsend, Elizabeth ^a   Langille, Lynn ^a   Ripley, Debra ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Mental Hlth Action Res Connection   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mental health services; Practice guidelines; Sociology

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPETENCE; CONSUMER; ETHNOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WORKPLACE; COUNSELING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NONDIRECTIVE THERAPY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 0037267202     PISSN: 02729490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5014/ajot.57.1.17     Document Type: Article

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