The Social Construction of Community Care

Anthea Symonds BSc, MSc, PhD, Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Wales, Swansea Anne Kelly RGN, RM, HV, HVT, MPhil, Lecturer in Health Care Management at the University of Wales, Swansea

PART 1: A.Symonds.- Introduction.- The Social Construction of Reality.- The Social Construction of Public Care for the Community.- The Social Re-Construction of Care in and by the Community.- Care for the Community, Inmates, Patients, Consumers and Citizens.- Summary.- PART 2: .- Introduction.- Concepts of the Professions and Professionalism; A.Kelly.- Professions and the Changed Environment; A.Kelly.- The Social Construction of Management in Community Care; N.Harding.- Community Development and Health Care Professionals; S.Clarke.- Rights and Rhetoric in Community Care Policy and Practice; T.Stainton .- Professions and School Nursing; I.Webber.- Professions and Community Nursing; A.Kelly, G.Mabbett & R.Thomé.- The Community Psychiatric Nurse and Primary Health Care; P.Davies .- Professionals and the Voluntary Sector; R.F.Drake.- Summary.- PART 3: .- Introduction.- The Myth of the Market in the Organisation of Health and Social Care; D.Rea.- Danger on the Streets: Mental Illness and Ingratitude; J.Wilkinson.- Poverty and Community Care; M.Drakeford.- Working with Children in Need under the Children Act 1989; M. Colton, C.Drury & M.Williams.- The Social Construction of the 'Carer'; J.Johnson & B.Bytheway.- Housing and Elderly People; R.F.Drake.- Working with Minority Ethnic Communities; K.Blakemore.- Summary.