Refuse to be alienated : Action Reflection of a Job Coach for The Mentally Ill in The Hospital

• Main Authors: Hsu-Hui Lee, 李栩慧
• Other Authors: Tzen-Yung Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31128643381810692487

碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 衛生福利研究所 === 93 === This thesis is written by a job coach, who refuses to be alienated, narrating a story of a front-line worker trying to help the mentally ill. Starting from her working experience in a hospital in Taipei and re-examining the corresponding events happened therein, the researcher attempts to figure out a structure of power exercising beyond job coaches by a Medicine and Labor mixed system and repel to the trends of “professionalization” and “alienation” by re-telling the true story her had. Moreover, the researcher wants to transform the “marginalized location” into a horizon of freedom for a supplement of energy to job coaches in Taipei city. Since the author is the actor in this research field, I should switch between the researcher and the actor repeatedly. Extracting from my different frames of work experience, three topics are covered in this thesis. They are “The Transition of Imagination of My Profession”, ”The Method and Posture of Knowing the Institution where I live”, and ”The Possibility of a collaborative action”. In the first topic, I want to discuss a progress that makes an inner change of professional identification by outer restrictions. Secondly, I want to look into mechanisms that discipline the front-line worker when I were getting to be familiar with this institution. To help the mentally ill getting better jobs, I try to find some partners to strike out the limitations set by the current system after accumulating the experience and ability to handle the administrative affairs. The three topics seem separated, but, in fact, they respond to a question coherently: “alienation.” In the modern society, front-line workers have gradually lost their personalities and become tools in order to perform programs for the purpose of institutions, instead of clients. On the contrary, I worked hard to resist becoming a tool and wanted to fight with this system. This thesis is intended to record the processes and changes. Besides of resistance of being aliened, the researcher also discovered the energy of the front-line workers, and re-thought the definition of “professionalization”.