Abstract
Although the nursing literature overflows with references to the myriad things for which nurses and patients are de facto responsible, nurses have never explicitly examined the social construction of responsibility in any clinical context. This ethnographic investigation of a unique, 10-bed residential treatment facility for women diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) sought to identify, describe, and understand the social processes by which a particular mental health treatment community constructed responsibility. Consistent with feminist naturalism and informed by the feminist moral philosophy of Margaret Urban Walker (1998), this study utilized the naturalistic field methodology of Schatzman and Strauss (1973) and incorporated data analytic methods of grounded theory to map, examine, and understand the practices and distributions of responsibility within an intensive residential treatment facility staffed by and for women.
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Non-member
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Ethnography
Research Approach
Qualitative Research
Keywords:
Borderline Personality Disorder, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Women, Residential Treatment Facilities, Morality
Advisor
Joan Liaschenko
Second Advisor
Cynthia Peden-McAlpine
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
University of Minnesota
Degree Year
2006
Recommended Citation
Bjorklund, Pamela K., "Taking responsibility: Toward an understanding of morality in practice. An ethnographic investigation of the social construction of responsibility in the dialectical behavior therapy" (2022). Dissertations. 1734.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1734
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Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2022-01-19
Full Text of Presentation
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3234905; ProQuest document ID: 305311234. The author still retains copyright.