Children, families, and mental health service organizations: cultures in conflict.
This paper applies the concepts of culture, organizational culture, and culture conflict to a study of relationships between children, their families and a number of mental health and other social service organizations. The culture of a specific children's mental hospital ward is examined and a sample of 12 patients is followed on their course through the service system (pre- and post-hospitalization). A cultural interpretation of current mental health service delivery problems is suggested.
D002648:Child; D002674:Child, Institutionalized; D003469:Culture; D003625:Data Collection; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration; D006783:Hospitals, State / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D014481:United States