Managing Vulnerability

The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care

Timothy Dartington

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429916021
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society. In this book The author explores the dynamics of care. He argues that we know how to do it, but somehow we seem to keep getting it wrong. Poor care in hospitals and care homes is well documented, and yet it continues. Care for people in their own homes is seen as an ideal, but the reality can be cruel and isolating. The author describes research over forty years in thinking why institutional and community care are both subject to processes of denial and fear of dependency. His examples include children in hospital, people with disabilities living in the community, and the care of older people and those with dementia.

Index

accountability, 35–39, 78, 79, 83, 90, 99, 133, 207

action research, 4, 5, 7, 24, 25, 27, 65

concept of, 28

Age Concern, 50, 146

ageing, fear of, 36

alcohol-related diseases, 123

altruism, 49, 58, 65, 69, 135, 147–149

Alzheimer’s Disease (passim), 166–175

case study, 139–153

Alzheimer’s Society, 50, 169, 171, 180

annihilation, fear of, 11, 26, 54

antipsychotic drugs, 50, 193

anxiety(ies):

defences against, 26, 27

depressive, 23

managing, 11

paranoid, 23

performance, 113

primitive, 11, 12, 35

status, 126

unconscious, 13, 26

Appelby, J., 132

Aracept (donepezil), 169

Armstrong, D., 11

Ashcroft-Simpson, S., 141

assessment, 64, 117, 142, 143, 156, 186, 190, 207

Association of Mental Health, 108

asylum seekers, 141

Athill, D., 142

attachment, 92

theory, 43

Attendance Allowance, 131

Audit Commission, 55

Badcock, C., 65

Bair, D., 150

Balfour, A., 28

Bamforth, K., 11

Bannerjee, S., 129

basic assumptions (Bion), 18, 27, 208

Bate, J., 168

Beckett, S., 144, 174

Beedell, P., 211

Bell, C., 75

Bell, D., 120

Bennett, A., 194

Beresford, P., 209

Bertalanffy, L. von, 9

Beverage, W., 54

Bion, W. R., 12, 18, 19, 26, 27, 41, 197

basic assumptions, 18, 27, 208

container and contained, 57

containment, 13

dependency, 208

fight–flight, 208

hatred of thinking, 32

pairing, 208

reverie, 13

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PREFACE
• I Individual survival and organizational life
• II The survival of the unfittest
• III The personal and the professional
• IV Conclusions
• REFERENCES
• INDEX