Doing ‘Ethics Work’ Together: Negotiating Service Users’ Independence in Community Mental Health Meetings

This article develops the concept of ‘ethics work’ (Banks [2016]. “Everyday Ethics in Professional Life: Social Work as Ethics Work.” Ethics and Social Welfare 10 (1): 35–52) from a focus on efforts made by professionals, to a domain co-constructed with service users and others. It takes an ethnomethodological approach to examining verbatim interactions in review (multi-party) meetings concerned with reviewing progress and making decisions about...