'Death by a thousand cuts': perspectives on deinsitutionalisation

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Title: 'Death by a thousand cuts': perspectives on deinsitutionalisation
Author(s): Carter, Meg
Abstract: This paper discusses findings from an Australian study that looks at housing and support for people who have had long stays in psychiatric institutions. Using qualitative methods, the study was designed to offer multiple perspectives on client outcomes and on the process of implementation. The study demonstrates the advantages of methods that look at program implementation from multiple perspectives. In situations where policy directions are contested, as has been the case with deinstitutionalization in South Australia, multiple perspectives are particularly instructive. Here they show how programs designed to facilitate deinstitutionalization, if implemented without an explicit policy context and a publicized commitment to ongoing funding, can be experienced by those involved in their implementation as ‘death by a thousand cuts’.
Publication type: Conference paper
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
Source: Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons: Proceedings of the Annual Australian Sociological Association Conference (TASA 2007), Auckland, New Zealand, 04-07 December 2007
Publication year: 2007
Publisher: The Australian Sociological Association
Publisher URL: http://www.tasa.org.au/conferencepapers07/pages/introduction.htm
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