Anne Opie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Opie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Opie |
| SIGNATURE | OPIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nobody's Asked Me for My View: Users' Empowerment by Multidisciplinary Health Teams
Health policy in New Zealand, as elsewhere, has articulated the notion of partnership to be achieved through developing policies and practices aiming to empower users and their families. The involvement of users, family, and significant others in decisions about users' health care points to a realignment of traditional power relations through its de-centring of professionals in some domains of health care. It is suggested that family meetings to …
Teams as Author: Narrative and Knowledge Creation in case Discussions in Multi-Disciplinary Health Teams
Narrative has been described as a universally used means for ordering experience. Although the narratives of medical teams have received recent attention, those produced by health professionals in multi-disciplinary health care teams in the course of their everyday work in team reviews and case discussions about service users have not. This paper, then, presents a discussion of an under-investigated area of narrative in the social sciences. The a…
Thinking Teams Thinking Clients: Issues of Discourse and Representation in the Work of Health Care Teams
The use of multi‐disciplinary health care teams is an increasingly common aspect of service delivery in health care in Western countries. While the literature rehearses the putative benefits to practitioners and clients of such teams, there appears to be an absence of extensive evidence‐based research on team practices to substantiate such claims. What evidence there is suggests that team work is in different ways problematic. This article is a p…
The Instability of the Caring Body: Gender and Caregivers of Confused Older People
Literature on caregiving identifies gender as a major social policy issue. It highlights caring as grounded in assumptions about women's natural caring role and embedded social expectations and behavioral patterns. This literature has typically employed a universalized notion of "woman." It has left differences between women substantially unexplored. Differences in caring practice between genders have been typically represented as fixed, and the …
The discursive shaping of social work records: Organisational change, professionalism, and client “Empowerment
Qualitative Research, Appropriation of the 'Other' and Empowerment
Thinking Teams Thinking Clients: Issues of Discourse and Representation in the Work of Health Care Teams
The use of multi‐disciplinary health care teams is an increasingly common aspect of service delivery in health care in Western countries. While the literature rehearses the putative benefits to practitioners and clients of such teams, there appears to be an absence of extensive evidence‐based research on team practices to substantiate such claims. What evidence there is suggests that team work is in different ways problematic. This article is a p…
Qualitative Research, Appropriation of the 'Other' and Empowerment
The Instability of the Caring Body: Gender and Caregivers of Confused Older People
Literature on caregiving identifies gender as a major social policy issue. It highlights caring as grounded in assumptions about women's natural caring role and embedded social expectations and behavioral patterns. This literature has typically employed a universalized notion of "woman." It has left differences between women substantially unexplored. Differences in caring practice between genders have been typically represented as fixed, and the …
Nobody's Asked Me for My View: Users' Empowerment by Multidisciplinary Health Teams
Health policy in New Zealand, as elsewhere, has articulated the notion of partnership to be achieved through developing policies and practices aiming to empower users and their families. The involvement of users, family, and significant others in decisions about users' health care points to a realignment of traditional power relations through its de-centring of professionals in some domains of health care. It is suggested that family meetings to …
The discursive shaping of social work records: Organisational change, professionalism, and client “Empowerment
Qualitative Research, Appropriation of the 'Other' and Empowerment
The discursive shaping of social work records: Organisational change, professionalism, and client “Empowerment
The Instability of the Caring Body: Gender and Caregivers of Confused Older People
Literature on caregiving identifies gender as a major social policy issue. It highlights caring as grounded in assumptions about women's natural caring role and embedded social expectations and behavioral patterns. This literature has typically employed a universalized notion of "woman." It has left differences between women substantially unexplored. Differences in caring practice between genders have been typically represented as fixed, and the …
Teams as Author: Narrative and Knowledge Creation in case Discussions in Multi-Disciplinary Health Teams
Narrative has been described as a universally used means for ordering experience. Although the narratives of medical teams have received recent attention, those produced by health professionals in multi-disciplinary health care teams in the course of their everyday work in team reviews and case discussions about service users have not. This paper, then, presents a discussion of an under-investigated area of narrative in the social sciences. The a…
Thinking Teams Thinking Clients: Issues of Discourse and Representation in the Work of Health Care Teams
The use of multi‐disciplinary health care teams is an increasingly common aspect of service delivery in health care in Western countries. While the literature rehearses the putative benefits to practitioners and clients of such teams, there appears to be an absence of extensive evidence‐based research on team practices to substantiate such claims. What evidence there is suggests that team work is in different ways problematic. This article is a p…
Nobody's Asked Me for My View: Users' Empowerment by Multidisciplinary Health Teams
Health policy in New Zealand, as elsewhere, has articulated the notion of partnership to be achieved through developing policies and practices aiming to empower users and their families. The involvement of users, family, and significant others in decisions about users' health care points to a realignment of traditional power relations through its de-centring of professionals in some domains of health care. It is suggested that family meetings to …
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Empowerment (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)