Managing Vulnerability

The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care

By: Tim Dartington

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Hardcover | 31 July 2019 | Edition Number 1

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258 Pages

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Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society. In this book The author explores the dynamics of care. He argues that we know how to do it, but somehow we seem to keep getting it wrong. Poor care in hospitals and c

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"Original, absorbing, unsettling and beautifully written, Managing Vulnerability is an important book for anyone dealing seriously with the predicaments of caring institutions or who is concerned with renewing the capacity of society to address profound human need. Tim Dartington brings to light the social and psychological matrix that shapes our systems of care and how today's cultural context, which so often de-values dependence, creates debilitating cross currents for leaders and managers of organizations providing care. This book provides a penetrating account of how emotions associated with the work of caring find their way into the structure, informal processes, and functioning of modern caring institutions."--James Krantz, PhD, Principal, Worklab Consulting, NYC; Past President, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO)

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