Ramcharan1997
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Ramcharan1997 |
| Author(s) | Paul Ramcharan |
| Title | Clerking Mental Health Cases: The Construction and Importance of a Sequential Order |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Psychiatry, Mental Health, Documents |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Journal | Ethnographic Studies |
| Volume | 2 |
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| Pages | 56-71 |
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Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of the routine decision-making of staff working in a Community Mental Health Centre (CMHC), from the time cases are first brought to the attention of the Centre up to the point at which Centre staff either reject, or alternatively allocate the case for assessment. In particular I will be aiming to illustrate the social organisation which provides for this decision-making as routine. Since much of the routineness of these operations proceeds via the completion of forms, notes and other documents, these will feature heavily in this paper. These locally produced data were gathered during an eight month period of observation in a CMHC in the north west of Britain.
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