Opening the Gift: Social Inclusion, Professional Codes and Gift-Giving in Long-Term Mental Healthcare

摘要: Deinstitutionalisation has not only made the social inclusion of clients a key objective in long-term mental healthcare, it may also affect role care professional. This article investigates whether clashes with other long-standing professional values, specifically when give gifts to professionals. In making typology gifts, we compare literature on gift-giving codes for and relate both clients. Our draws an analysis ethnographic fieldwork carried out 2007/2008 at Dutch healthcare centre. We identify four types professionals each relating individually Only ‘personal gift’ directly supports inclusion, by fostering personal relationships between Acceptance this type gift is advocated suggest that need consider advocate promoting reflexivity as means accounting behaviour deinstitutionalised settings.