Ego and Milieu: Theory and Practice

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cumming, Elaine

Cumming, John

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

<p>About the Author\nElaine Cumming was director of the Albany Mental Health Research Unit of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene and professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Albany. Her research into varying aspects of social deviance and social control has been conducted with the Psychiatric Services Branch of the Saskatchewan Department of Health, with Cornell University under a joint appointment. She is the author of Ego and Milieu: Theory and Practice of Environmental Therapy and Growing Old: The Process of Disengagement among others.</p>

Social Systems and Social Regulations

In Social Systems and Social Regulations, Elaine Cumming describes attitudes of patients and clients toward health and welfare organizations. The focus is on the complex relationships between regulative agents, as revealed by the movement of clients through health and welfare systems. The author observes how doctors, clergy members, police officers, welfare officers, psychiatrists, social workers, and other social agents relate to one another and to their clients and charges. Cumming selected Syracuse, New York, typical of many middle-sized American cities of the 1960s, for her field studies. These involved several agencies and thousands of individuals. The result is a thoughtful analysis that can readily be applied to many aspects of the entire social system. Who are the clients? What are their problems? How do agents respond to them? These are some of the topics dealt with at length. From the view point of the agents, the author discusses how they see their own roles in the overall regulative system; how areas of operation interact and overlap; how the network of agencies changed over a five year period; what major problems remained to be overcome at the time; and what changes could and should have been made. When initially published, this was a new examination of the regulative system in America. Students and scholars will still find this work invaluable in the study of social control. Professionals will find many points for contrast and comparison and an analytical framework for evaluating and solving problems faced in health and welfare operations throughout the country.

Mental Health

Account of a controlled experiment in mental health education with tables of data and analysis.

Closed Ranks: An Experiment in Mental Health Education

Harvard University Press

Closed Ranks: An Experiment in Mental Health Education (Commonwealth Fund Publications, 47)

In Social Systems and Social Regulations, Elaine Cumming describes attitudes of patients and clients toward health and welfare organizations. The focus is on the complex relationships between regulative agents, as revealed by the movement of clients through health and welfare systems. The author observes how doctors, clergy members, police officers, welfare officers, psychiatrists, social workers, and other social agents relate to one another and to their clients and charges.Cumming selected Syracuse, New York, typical of many middle-sized American cities of the 1960s, for her field studies. These involved several agencies and thousands of individuals. The result is a thoughtful analysis that can readily be applied to many aspects of the entire social system. Who are the clients? What are their problems? How do agents respond to them? These are some of the topics dealt with at length.From the view point of the agents, the author discusses how they see their own roles in the overall regulative system; how areas of operation interact and overlap; how the network of agencies changed over a five year period; what major problems remained to be overcome at the time; and what changes could and should have been made. When initially published, this was a new examination of the regulative system in America. Students and scholars will still find this work invaluable in the study of social control. Professionals will find many points for contrast and comparison and an analytical framework for evaluating and solving problems faced in health and welfare operations throughout the country.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ego And Milieu: Theory And Practice Of Environmental Therapy

Literature & Fiction

Cumming Sir, John

Literary

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