Power and Control in Mental Health Social Work

Hannah Jobling is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York, with interests including mental health social work, social work across time and place and community-based approaches to social support. Mark Hardy is Honorary Fellow in Social Work in the School for Business and Society at the University of York. He writes on social work theory and practice, particularly the nature of risk within mental health and forensic social work.

• Introduction: Virtuous authority? Power and control in practice1. Theorising power and control2. Control and community mental health practice3. A virtual asylum? The various meanings of compulsion in the community4. Experiencing Control - how Service users navigated CTOs5. Enacting control - the purpose and practices of CTOs6. Sense of an ending - deciding when to relinquish control7. Practice paradoxes and (perverse) consequences8. Reconciling ControlReference ListAppendix: How the study was conducted