The welfare workforce : why mental health care varies across affluent democracies /
Perera, Isabel M., 1988-
The welfare workforce : why mental health care varies across affluent democracies / Isabel M. Perera. - 1 online resource (xx, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in comparative politics . - Cambridge studies in comparative politics. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).
Open Access.
The Welfare Workforce is a thought-provoking exploration of mental health care in the United States and beyond. Although all the affluent democracies pursued deinstitutionalization, some failed to provide adequate services, while others overcame challenges of stigma and limited resources and successfully expanded care. Isabel M. Perera examines the role of the "welfare workforce" in providing social services to those who cannot demand them. Drawing on extensive research in four countries - the United States, France, Norway, and Sweden - Perera sheds light on post-industrial politics and the critical part played by those who work for the welfare state. A must-read for anyone interested in mental health care, social services, and the politics of welfare, The Welfare Workforce challenges conventional wisdom and offers new insights into the complex factors that contribute to the success or failure of mental health care systems. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
9781009499866 (ebook)
Mental health services--Developed countries.
Social services--Developed countries.
Human services personnel--Labor unions--Organizing--Developed countries.
Labo unions and public health--Developed countries.
RA790 / .P37296 2025
362.209172/4
The welfare workforce : why mental health care varies across affluent democracies / Isabel M. Perera. - 1 online resource (xx, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in comparative politics . - Cambridge studies in comparative politics. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).
Open Access.
The Welfare Workforce is a thought-provoking exploration of mental health care in the United States and beyond. Although all the affluent democracies pursued deinstitutionalization, some failed to provide adequate services, while others overcame challenges of stigma and limited resources and successfully expanded care. Isabel M. Perera examines the role of the "welfare workforce" in providing social services to those who cannot demand them. Drawing on extensive research in four countries - the United States, France, Norway, and Sweden - Perera sheds light on post-industrial politics and the critical part played by those who work for the welfare state. A must-read for anyone interested in mental health care, social services, and the politics of welfare, The Welfare Workforce challenges conventional wisdom and offers new insights into the complex factors that contribute to the success or failure of mental health care systems. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
9781009499866 (ebook)
Mental health services--Developed countries.
Social services--Developed countries.
Human services personnel--Labor unions--Organizing--Developed countries.
Labo unions and public health--Developed countries.
RA790 / .P37296 2025
362.209172/4