Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems

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Edition: 1
Release: 2010-10-28
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195374800
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and recovery of their clients. The resulting organizational trauma both mirrors and magnifies the trauma-related problems their clients seek relief from. Just as the lives of people exposed to chronic trauma and abuse become organized around the traumatic experience, so too have our social service systems become organized around the recurrent stress of trying to do more under greater pressure: they become crisis-oriented, authoritarian, disempowered, and demoralized, often living in the present moment, haunted by the past, and unable to plan for the future.

Complex interactions among traumatized clients, stressed staff, pressured organizations, and a social and economic climate that is often hostile to recovery efforts recreate the Download Destroying Sanctuary for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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