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Author Glumm, Karen

Title How the factor of profitability determines the psychiatric diagnosis : case studies of social triage in the Texas psychiatric hospital industry / Karen Glumm ; with a foreword by Sheldon Ekland-Olson
Published Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Theoretical background -- History of public/private funding -- Research procedures -- Process of mobilization -- A comparison of vulnerable and privileged vulnerable -- Nature and process of recruitment -- Nature and process of retention -- The privileged vulnerable -- Conclusions and implications
Summary Glumm takes first hand accounts of private psychiatric hospitals policies and shows that there is often willful neglect of patients who do not have the money to pay, and sometimes there is even manipulation on behalf of psychiatrists and nurses to keep people in therapy just to run up their expenses with insurance companies, only to miraculously 'cure' them when their coverage runs out. Testimonial statements during congressional hearings are made available in this text, and the book describes what political fallout occurred, if any, once patients stepped forward to report their lack of care
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Mental health services -- Economic aspects -- Texas
Psychiatric hospitals -- Economic aspects -- Texas -- Case studies
Psychotherapy patients -- Care -- Economic aspects -- Texas -- Case studies
Social justice.
Healthcare Disparities -- economics
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- economics
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- organization & administration
Patient Selection
Social Justice
Vulnerable Populations
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
Social justice
Mental health services -- Economic aspects
SUBJECT Texas
Subject Texas
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773412095
0773412093