Turning Troubles into Problems: Clientization in Human Services

by Jaber F. Gubrium (Editor), Margaretha Järvinen (Editor)

Overview

This book looks at how troubles can be transformed into specific diseases and dysfunctions, identifiable by professionals. Old, new, controversial, and dissenting approaches will be represented in contributions that address the experience of troubles and problematized identities in childhood and adolescence, the working years, and in later life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415522526
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2013
Series:	Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Missouri, USA, and is the founding and current editor of the Journal of Aging Studies.

Margaretha Järvinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen and is affiliated with the Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents

1. Troubles, Problems, and Clientization Jaber F. Gubrium and Margaretha Järvinen Part 1: Individual Challenges 2. Listening and the Paradox of Autonomy in Elderly Care Homes Jens Kofod 3. Parent Constructions of Problem Location and Clienthood in Child Welfare Services Maarit Alasuutari 4. Untidy Clientization: Drug Users Resisting Institutional Identities Margaretha Järvinen Part 2: Collective Challenges 5. Psychiatric Diagnosis as Collective Action in a Residential Therapeutic Community Darin Weinberg 6. Wild Girls and the Deproblematization of Troubled Lives Kathrine Vitus 7. The Imagined Psychology of Being Overweight in a Weight Loss Program Nanna Mik-Meyer Part 3: Competing Perspectives 8. Troubles? Problems? Comparing Social Workers’ and Older Persons’ Perspectives on Elder Self-Neglect Tova Band-Winterstein, Israel Doron, and Sigal Naim 9. Participant Meaning-Making Along the Work Trajectory of a Labor Activation Program Erika Gubrium 10. Constructing the System in a Remand Prison Thomas Ugelvik Part 4: Contending Clienthoods 11. How Occupational Identity Constructs Clienthood in Sexual Assault Exams Lara Foley 12. Tenability, Troubles, and Psychiatric Problems in Practice James A. Holstein 13. From Troubling Actions to Troubled Lives: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Richard Tewksbury and David Patrick Connor