Conservatorship - Inside Californias System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: The Other Magna Carta
Part I. The Conservatorship Continuum
1. Outpatient
2. Crisis
3. Emergency Room
4. Inpatient
5. Public Guardian
6. Court
Part II. Care and Coercion Under Conservatorship
7. Locked In
8. Stepped Down
9. Neglect and Abuse
10. Stabilization and Recovery
Part III. Reform
11. Paving a New Pathway
12. Asylum for the Dying
13. Sharing Authority, Restoring Autonomy
Conclusion: Beyond Miracles
Methodological Appendix
Chronology of “Abdicated Authority”
Glossary of Terms, Procedures, and Facilities
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Alex V. Barnard is an assistant professor of sociology at New York University. He is the author of Freegans: Diving Into the Wealth of Food Waste in America (2016).

Summary

This book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system, drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees.

Product details

• Authors: Alex V. Barnard
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2023
• EAN: 9780231210249
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21024-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, LAW / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Poverty & unemployment, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness, Mental Health Law, law; mental health