Matthew C Spitzmueller
Biographic Data
| ID | 5940898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew C Spitzmueller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew C |
| FAMILY NAME | Spitzmueller |
| SIGNATURE | SPITZMUELLER M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Street-Level Organizational Theory
Street-level organizational (SLO) theory argues that when public policy is ambiguous and workers use discretion to interpret it, a full account of policy practice must begin with an analysis of how policy is experienced and enacted by those who are charged with executing it. This article builds upon the conceptual foundation of SLO theory to examine how workers reproduce power in their everyday encounters with clients. It contends that power is l…
Collaborative Governance in the Age of Managed Behavioral Health Care
Objective: Collaborative governance engages public and private stakeholders in shared decision-making. In this article, we investigate New York State’s Regional Planning Consortiums (RPCs), a collaborative governance model designed to monitor the transition of the state’s public behavioral health system to Medicaid managed care. We use an integrative framework to examine how officials believed collaborative governance would address policy challen…
Worker Perspectives on Contemporary Milieu Therapy
The term “milieu therapy” (MT) is commonly used in mental health literatures. However, because MT has historically encompassed a wide range of practices, it has invited the criticism that it is simply an attractive theoretical packaging of the time clients spend between other specified interventions, such as individual and group therapies. Some have suggested that, because of its conceptual ambiguity, MT should be abandoned altogether. Despite th…
Negotiating Competing Institutional Logics at the Street Level
This article brings street-level organizational theory into conversation with the institutional logics perspective. It uses ethnographic methods to investigate how workers in one community mental health organization negotiated the competing therapeutic logic of the clubhouse and managerial logic of fee-for-service reforms, analyzing how their actions shaped the accessibility of services for those most in need. This article examines the organizati…
Negotiating Competing Institutional Logics at the Street Level
This article brings street-level organizational theory into conversation with the institutional logics perspective. It uses ethnographic methods to investigate how workers in one community mental health organization negotiated the competing therapeutic logic of the clubhouse and managerial logic of fee-for-service reforms, analyzing how their actions shaped the accessibility of services for those most in need. This article examines the organizati…
Worker Perspectives on Contemporary Milieu Therapy
The term “milieu therapy” (MT) is commonly used in mental health literatures. However, because MT has historically encompassed a wide range of practices, it has invited the criticism that it is simply an attractive theoretical packaging of the time clients spend between other specified interventions, such as individual and group therapies. Some have suggested that, because of its conceptual ambiguity, MT should be abandoned altogether. Despite th…
Worker Perspectives on Contemporary Milieu Therapy
The term “milieu therapy” (MT) is commonly used in mental health literatures. However, because MT has historically encompassed a wide range of practices, it has invited the criticism that it is simply an attractive theoretical packaging of the time clients spend between other specified interventions, such as individual and group therapies. Some have suggested that, because of its conceptual ambiguity, MT should be abandoned altogether. Despite th…
Negotiating Competing Institutional Logics at the Street Level
This article brings street-level organizational theory into conversation with the institutional logics perspective. It uses ethnographic methods to investigate how workers in one community mental health organization negotiated the competing therapeutic logic of the clubhouse and managerial logic of fee-for-service reforms, analyzing how their actions shaped the accessibility of services for those most in need. This article examines the organizati…
Collaborative Governance in the Age of Managed Behavioral Health Care
Objective: Collaborative governance engages public and private stakeholders in shared decision-making. In this article, we investigate New York State’s Regional Planning Consortiums (RPCs), a collaborative governance model designed to monitor the transition of the state’s public behavioral health system to Medicaid managed care. We use an integrative framework to examine how officials believed collaborative governance would address policy challen…
Street-Level Organizational Theory
Street-level organizational (SLO) theory argues that when public policy is ambiguous and workers use discretion to interpret it, a full account of policy practice must begin with an analysis of how policy is experienced and enacted by those who are charged with executing it. This article builds upon the conceptual foundation of SLO theory to examine how workers reproduce power in their everyday encounters with clients. It contends that power is l…
Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works)