Task-Shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala
Tensions and Ruptures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2151522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sudarshan R Kottai (0000-0002-2564-4879, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, corresponding author), Ranganathan (0000-0002-6954-2727, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 538-552 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2020.1722122 |
| PMID | 32101053 |
| OpenAlex | W3007551705 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 30 |
Based on an ethnography of community mental health programs run by two NGOs in Kerala which have associated themselves with preexisting, locally grown, community-based palliative clinics, this article explores how professional NGOs bring a new culture to volunteer-based programs. Professionalizing volunteers through task-shifting results in the transformation of their philosophy of community care, which constrains and narrows understandings of mental health care. The state, in alliance with psychiatric NGOs, front-stages development through aggressive task-shifting which we argue is a socio-politico-moral process, disrupting the shared consciousness between volunteers and their own communities with fatal consequences for their most vulnerable citizens
Alliance · Consciousness · Ethnography · Health care · Management · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Task (project management · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social and Economic Development in India · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |