Trusting on the Edge Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems
Calnan, Michael,MitwirkendeR.
Brown, Patrick,VerfasserIn.
This book explores issues central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust, linking abstract concerns to empirical analysis with interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers.
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TRUSTING ON THE EDGE; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Risk and trust in late-modern society; Late-modernity and the illumination of uncertainties; Strategies of managing vulnerability in the face of uncertainty: risk and trust; Atmospheres of trust? Various forms of 'hyphenated' trust; Overview of the book; 1. Investigating trust: some theoretical and methodological underpinnings; Risk, vulnerability and uncertainty; Conceptualising trust; Defining trust: a problem of knowing; Relating trust in people to trust in systems; Researching trust: epistemology and methodology
Some central analytical foci2. Constructing knowledge through social interactions: the role of interpersonal trust in negotiating negative institutional conceptions; Three sources of negative institutional conceptions; Different formats and concreteness of knowledge; Trusting in mental health professionals: distinguishing the individual from the system; Conclusion; 3. Bridging uncertainty by constructing trust: the rationality of irrational approaches; Rationality as an obstacle to social analysis; Trust as necessary, appropriate and effective
Dispositions and forming knowledge of others: habitus and trustConclusion; 4. Vulnerability and the 'will to trust'; Dependence, choice and trust; Luhmannian insights: choice, regret and attribution; Choosing or not choosing? Recognising agency amidst structures; The messiness of real world trust: trust and mistrust alongside one another; Vulnerability and a 'will to trust'; Conclusion; 5. The difficulties of trust-work within a paradigm of risk; Professionals in the midst of vulnerability; Professionals, morality and the trust-control dialectic
The interrelatedness of trust across different organisational dimensionsVirtuous and vicious circles of trust; Origins of virtuous and vicious circles; A starting point for potential policy solutions; Conclusion; 6. Trusting on the edge:implications for policy; Overview of key themes; Policy implications: rediscovering trust; Paths for future research; Appendix; Methods; Design; Sampling and participants; Data collection; Method of analysis; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores issues central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust, linking abstract concerns to empirical analysis with interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers.
Description based on print version record.
Trust.
Physician and patient.
Mentally ill.
Physician and patient.
Mentally ill.
Trust.