A consultation analysis of learned helplessness at "city hospital".
It is known variously as "reality shock," bureaucratic-professional conflict, institutionalization, and even oppression. Whatever one calls it, however, the phenomenon described and conceptualized as "learned helplessness" by nurse-author Karen Malcomson is a vexing, trying, and familiar one to any clinician who has attempted to bring about change in a complex institution.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012931:Social Environment