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Treatment of Chemical Dependency

Psychiatric and chemical dependency in-patient and out-patient treatment to adolescents.

Recently, a major operational change took place at the institution, viz. heretofore long-term residential care was replaced by short-term residential care followed by out-patient consultation. The change constituted a conjuncture, i.e. a critical state of affairs for the facility, inasmuch as management, healthcare professionals, and patients had to adapt to fundamentally different management and healthcare delivery modalities. The alleged proximate cause of the conjuncture was the drastically reduced insurance coverage of treatment costs - a move the insurance companies claimed had become necessary in the face of steeply rising healthcare delivery costs.

As a member of Asylum's direct-delivery healthcare staff, the researcher was in a privileged position to observe if and how the organizational and operational changes were affecting employees' behavior at work, and, in particular, attitudes towards the changes and the perceived agents of these changes. Inasmuch as he transacted with both Healthcare Professionals and Administrative Middle- Managers on a daily basis over a substantial period, the researcher developed a special appreciation for the perceived differences in attitudes between these two categories of professional personnel. This appreciation was richly enhanced by the application of concepts and techniques of observation and interpretation based on insights provided by the Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgical Theory concepts and techniques of sociology.

The researcher thus noticed significant changes in attitudes among Healthcare Professionals and Administrative Middle-Managers as the conjuncture modified the operational mechanisms of the hospital. It appeared that Administrative Middle-Managers' newly expressed major concern was operational cost-effectiveness - even at the cost of lowered quality in therapeutic stand...

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