ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the processes involved in organizing work on the state hospital's acute services and with the consequences of team interaction for the professionals. It attempts to illustrate these types of interaction as well as how ideology and professional identity influenced the course of team organization. The chapter discusses each professional group as a whole, noting the deviants. There were twenty-five professionals, divided among five teams, representing psychiatry, psychology, social work, medicine, and nursing. The chapter summarizes the main points bearing upon turnover and maintenance of team continuity. Social workers and psychologists tended to resemble their own professional colleagues and therefore to contribute to the wards' ideological continuity. The chapter examines the ideological casts of the different wards in relation to professional identities. The task of organizing facilities for treatment in the state hospital was novel enough to result in development of new professional identities for many team members, regardless of the ideology that prevailed.
