Institutional living

Institutional living

1. Goffman

   • Batch living
   • Binary Management
   • Inmate role
   • Institutional perspective

2. Locked unit - Katherine Owen

   • Complex needs ward
     • Mental heath probles/challenging behaviour
   • Particpant observation
   • Batch living*
     • Not seen as individulas
     • Ruls permated every area of lives
     • Confirned to two rooms with no privacy
   • Binary Managment
     • Locked away
     • living lives behind doors
     • Only staff had keys to access all areas
   • Inmate role
     • Seen as dangerous, vulnerable, unpredicatble
     • Could not leave the ward unescorted
   • Institutional perspective
     • Some worked hard to please staff
     • came to discipline themselves
     • adpoted as a way of getting by

3. rules, routines, rhytms and order are need for the group to function

   • Take over - more important than those hi live/work there

4. founded on high-minded moral princplies

5. Designed to

   • Educate
   • care for
   • cure
   • make use of large number of people
     • poor
     • homeless
     • destitue
     • old people
     • orphans
     • physically disabled
     • learning disabilities
     • mentally ill
   • 'reduce contamination'

6. depersonilised and dehumanised

7. specialist institions

8. Cedar court

   • batch living
     • homogenous group
     • little choice
     • little personal privacy
   • Binary managment
     • sub culture of bedroom staff
     • tough control
   • Inmate Role
     • thrust upon residents
     • staff talk about residents
     • discipline if step out of line
   • divison
     • bedroom world
       • hidden
       • unqulaifed staff
       • lacks norms and values
       • service pateints and speed
       • Toughen up as no time foe emotional needs
     • lounge world
       • Public view

9. negative effects

   • Loss of contact
   • enforced idleness
   • bossiness of medical staff
   • loss of friends, possessions/effects
   • drugs use of sedatives
   • Ward atmosphere
   • loss of propsects