Challenges in Social Policy Making for Psychiatric Disability in India
Lessons and Way Forward for Social Workers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10898232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aarti Jagannathan (0000-0002-2792-1075, Department of Psychiatric Social Work (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services), National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, 560029, India, corresponding author), Shanivaram Reddy Krishnareddy (0000-0003-4023-6969), Shanivaram K Reddy |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 2441-2451 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcaa190 |
| OpenAlex | W3123726787 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
Social workers have been influential policy makers due to their understanding of the sociocultural–political scenario of the state and core social work values of social justice and social change. In India, the engagement of social workers in policy and political change has been restricted due to various internal and external work challenges. The authors in this article present two case studies of challenges faced by social workers in policy making in India. In the first case, the social worker dons the role of a change agent for setting up a social welfare system based on policy practice for persons with psychiatric disability in the rural community. In the second example, the social worker acts as a policy expert who is a catalyst between the service users (of psychiatric disability in urban community) and the state in influencing disability policy making. The lessons learnt and the way forward from the challenges faced in the two case studies are discussed
Economic growth · Economics · Medical model of disability · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Public relations · Social change · Social engagement · Social policy · Social science · Social Welfare · Sociology · State (computer science) · Family Caregiving in Mental Illness · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Social Work
Grand challenges in global mental health
Social Policy and Disability
Getting beyond 'Heroic Agency' in Conceptualising Social Workers as Policy Actors in the Twenty-First Century
Innovation in Social Policy
Policy Practice in Practice
Social work education in a changing socio-political and economic dispensation
Social Work Professional Associations in South Africa
Transforming Social Work Education in India
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |