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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Mobiliserande arenor
- 2011
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Ingår i: Social mobilisering – en utmaning för socialt arbete. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. ; , s. 103-117
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Mobilisering inom socialarbetarutbildningen
- 2011
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Ingår i: Social mobilisering – en utmaning för socialt arbete. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. ; , s. 157-168
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Social mobilisering: en inledande positionering
- 2011
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Ingår i: Social mobilisering. En utmaning för socialt arbete. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140668219 ; , s. 11-18
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Ahlgren, Thorbjörn, 1959-
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Institutionalisering på hemmaplan : En idés resa i den sociala barnavården
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis describes and analyses in three substudies how home-based measures for children are expanding and why an open care idea are established as part of the Swedish child welfare. The first substudy describes the national increment of what today can be considered as a treatment policy – non-institutional care in child welfare. The results are analysed with Kingdon's agenda setting theory and shows that the factors of what Kingdon describes as problems-, politics- and policyflow influenced the national increment. Significant mechanisms have primarily been, the profession, the society's concerns for socially disadvantaged children, negative experiences of institutionalisation and a political position to deinstitutionalise all care. The second substudy focuses on how knowledge and research contributes to ideological, professional, and organizational change in child welfare by analysis of Research & Developments reports and articles from the professional journal Socionomen. Based on the neo-institutional concepts of organisational fields and isoformism the study's results shows that a consequence of adaptation strategies and "rationalized myths" are a number of similarities in how home-based measures are organized and which measures that are used. The third substudy, a case study, analyses how we can understand a local development of ideas in social services for children with concepts from neo institutional theory. Interviews and municipal documents are analysed and shows that the local translation of an open care idea is characterized by discretion, personal preferences and action and affects the choice of method and organization. The study also shows a political mistrust of institutional care while there is at the same time political confidence in the individual social worker's ability to find solutions that allow non-institutional measures to be an alternative to institutional care.An overall conclusion of the thesis is that there is now a treatment policy in social services for the children, which involves extensive efforts at home and it has led to that more children receive support from social services. One result of non-institutional care increment is that it led to increased costs for municipalities for intervention for children and young people when out-of-home care has not decreased. Another general conclusion is that translation and adaptation of ideas to local contexts is something that generally fits street-level bureaucrats need for discretion.
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- Denvall, Verner, 1951-
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Avlärande
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Ingår i: Förändringens entreprenörer och tröghetens agenter. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147098798 ; , s. 159-172
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Avlärande
- 2013
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Ingår i: Förändringens entreprenörer och tröghetens agenter. - 9789147098798 ; , s. 159-172
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Denvall, Verner, 1951-
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Comparing evaluation of homelessness in the United States and the European Union
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Evaluation Association conference in Helsinki Oct 3-5, 2012.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Homelessness as a political and social dominion has a number of features that make it particularly illustrative for a conference focusing evaluation and especially the design of evaluations. In addition to being a wicked problem, homelessness offers several analytical avenues. How do these characteristics affect the evaluation of programs and projects aspiring to combat homelessness? Dissimilar pictures and solutions regarding homelessness in the US and in EU countries will likely affect recommendations given as a result of performed evaluations. For this study, the empirical base is a sample of the most cited evaluations of homelessness programs published in professional journals between 1996 and 2010. Most of these evaluations are from the US. These US evaluations more often use large-scale national programs and quantitative methods, whereas EU evaluations more often use smaller sample sizes and qualitative methods. In the US and the EU, evaluations of homelessness programs seldom use analytical approaches.
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- Denvall, Verner, 1951-
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Det sociala utvärderingslandskapet
- 2011
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Ingår i: Utvärdering i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9789127119826 ; , s. 35-54
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Denvall, Verner, 1951-
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Innovations and problem-solving : a comparative study
- 2011
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 14:3, s. 307-321
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the practical implementation of two innovative projects in Denmark and Sweden. The research is motivated by the high political interest in innovations as a modern quick fix to societal problems. Innovations are regarded as an all-round solution; however, research has mainly been focused on technical and economic factors without considering social problem solving. Utilizing ethnographic methodology, the study reveals that the same innovative process solves problems on one structural level, but creates new problems on another. Faith is generally seen as an important element of innovations geared to social problem solving. Results show that faith is bound to certain structural levels and that a given innovative process runs the risk of creating conflicting perceptions at different levels. The research demonstrates the importance of including components such as value differences, conflicts of interest, and ideology when promoting innovations and when studying innovative efforts.
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