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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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- 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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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Social planering
- 2006
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Ingår i: Nytta och fördärv. Socialt arbete i kritisk belysning. - 9789127113022
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Är socialt arbete till nytta?
- 2006
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Ingår i: Nytta och fördärv. Socialt arbete i kritisk belysning. - 9789127113022
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Denvall, Verner, 1951-, et al.
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Innovationsparadoxen : En studie av två försök att med nyskapande insatser lösa sociala problem
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This inquiry deals with experimental local social work, which out of the purpose of creating innovation in social work, try to solve problems of integration in deprived urban areas. Focus is on those kinds of experiments that are formulated within an empowerment perspective, and where empowerment is seen as synonymous with innovation and solutions of severe social problems. The inquiry deals with how innovation and empowerment are taking place in the integration of immigrants and refugees. What are the consequences, and what is the relevance to the group in question? How can such efforts bee understood and related to an innovation perspective?The study is part of a research program about innovation in municipalities and regions. The program was initiated and financed by “Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting”. Two different projects of integration, in Denmark and Sweden, were chosen as the empirical background. Both projects were dealing with integration of women with a background as migrants or refugees and both projects had empowerment as a goal.The inquiry shows that there has been a change in the understanding of empowerment. Nowadays empowerment is focusing on strengthen the ability of individuals and groups to use their resources and to take part in society as active citizen. These are changes which in crucial ways differ from the meanings of the concept, as it was ascribed in the social work of the seventies. At that time the concept was especially connected to a critique of the welfare state and its institutions. Empowerment was meant to mobilize the resources of marginal groups to create transformation and emancipation. The inquiry concentrates on transformations and the relation between normalisation and emancipation. What are the potentials of transformation in innovation? Are processes of innovation making transformations and renewals or are they expressions of social discourses at a given time? Are processes of innovation contributing to strengthen the prevailing order rather than change it? In another way: To whom are processes of innovation innovative?
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- Turunen, Päivi
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Samhällsarbete i Norden : Diskurser och praktiker i omvandling
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The dissertation deals with an inquiry concerning how the transformation of community work can be understood from a comparative perspective within the framework of social work in Scandinavia. Community work is examined by means of two main studies: an international literature review and an empirical study in four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden). The transformation is discussed in the light of theories of modernisation and discourse analysis. The results propose that the transformation is characterised by differentiation, both divergence and convergence. The discourses are far from constant, while the practices seem to remain the same. There are surprisingly many similarities between settlement work and contemporary community strategies across the globe. Since the 1980´s, they have expanded rapidly because of the political and ideological changes within welfare states – towards decentralisation and devolution. The concept of community work has been replaced by a plurality of community-orientated concepts. Within social work, it has converged into community social work. The transformation of Nordic community work has also moved towards a national and local diversity. The Nordic countries share similar phases of transformation of community work, but also have traits of their own. In general, community work has been carried out as projects. Denmark is characterised as the promised land of projects, Finland as the community land of minimal number of projects, Norway as the land of co-ordinated projects, and Sweden as the land of structural project-ideology. The transformation has also resulted in a polarisation – an increased professionalisation in academic communities and deprofessionalisation in practice. A constant problem with community work is its temporary nature, due to dependence upon recurring projects. There is a great need for sector transcending and integrating research, knowledge and practice development within the area of community policy and practice, including community work.
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- Ahlgren, Thorbjörn, 1959-
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Ungdomsbehandling : Hemmaplanslösning som idé och praktik
- 2007
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Title: Open-care Treatment of Youth. Home-ground Solutions in Theory and Practice This dissertation is a case study in two parts, which describes how ideas about open-care treatment of youth aged 13-20 years are interpreted and concretized in a local context. The study, i.a., aims at creating deeper knowledge about target group, content of treatment, and reported results concerning a form of treatment in social care which has hitherto been sparsely researched in Sweden. The results of the interview study demonstrate that the driving forces for developing local forms of open care treatments have first and foremost been to offer better care and to improve the professionalism of the social worker. Studies of the social welfare documents of 97 young people reveal that most of these youngsters are in bad need of treatment and that they have experiences of various kinds of treatment before the present efforts. The study also demonstrates that the efforts are rarely evaluated and lack systematic documentation. Finally, the study reveals that more than 60 per cent of the youth get some sort of continuous support by the social welfare system after the open-care treatment has come to an end. The results from both parts of the study are analysed by means of neo- institutional theory. According to this theory the local open-care treatment consists of an indistinct target group, family-oriented methods, and activities that have been legitimised by strong proponents, good timing, professional development, and by representing important political values. In conclusion, the author argues that open care treatment shows signs of a beginning institutionalisation, a taken-for-granted-ness, which he thinks is risky, as we still do not know if open-care treatment is more favourable to the young people than different kinds of 24-hour care. In addition, the author holds, that the future role of the social worker should include knowledge that decreases unfounded taken-for-granted ideas.
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- Giertz, Lottie, 1954-
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Erkännande, makt och möten : En studie av inflytande och självbestämmande med LSS
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The dissertation is about people with serious functional impairments who receive support pursuant to the Swedish LSS – the Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments. LSS gives compensatory support, so that a person can enjoy the right to live a life like anyone else. The user’s right to influence and self-determination is emphasized in the Act.The overall aim of the dissertation is to describe and analyse conditions, possibilities, and limitations to influence and self-determination for people receiving LSS support. The investigation includes two interview studies. One is a study of influence and self-determination in everyday life with personal assistance. The other study focuses on people receiving some form of LSS service in combination with having a limited guardian.The thesis shows that LSS can be understood on a general level as a judicial recognition of the group’s right to support for citizenship on individual terms. In many cases LSS service give the user influence and self-determination in everyday life. The interaction between the user and the supporting persons are crucial. If it involves mutual recognition of equality and recognition of difference – the right to be compensated for restricted abilities – then the user can act autonomously. The study deals with power and recognition as essential aspects. The analysis shows that recognition and power together contribute to an understanding of the complex situation that users of LSS measures have in their day-to-day lives. The intention behind the care is to ensure the user’s best interest. Relations and encounters around the user are affected by pastoral power with a caring purpose where support and control are interwoven. Mis-directed recognition is perceived as an infringement of integrity. The dilemma is that care that aims for something good without recognition reduces the user to an object and disrespect. The studies reveal a tension between the ideal of influence and self-determination as ”subject of rights” and the user’s everyday life. Personal assistance can be designed to contribute to achieving the intentions. Among many people receiving LSS support and having a legal guardian, the personal influence and self-determination are not distinct and guardianship is unclear. Relations are characterized by dilemmas concerning the preferential right of interpretation. The individuals are seen as “objects of care” by others. Influence and self-determination depend on a fundamental recognition of the user as subject with a need for individually adapted care. This means the right to be and act as a “subject of care”. Recognition, relations and power are keys to influence and self-determination in LSS.
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Supply and Demand : Evaluation Training for Social Work and Social Care in a Swedish Context
- 2008
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Ingår i: Social Work Education. - : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. - 0261-5479 .- 1470-1227. ; 27:1, s. 19-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Only during the last two decades has the discourse on evaluation been on the Swedish agenda of social work and social care. One assumption is that a conscious need for evaluation knowledge and evaluation capacity has finally surfaced. This is based on the view that work efforts of social service organizations are regarded as chiefly authority-based and to a lesser degree based upon scientific knowledge. This article addresses two questions: which actors are involved in training evaluators in, and of, social work in Sweden and what kind of knowledge is communicated in training programmes? Further, is the discourse of evidence-based practice incorporated into the training of social workers? A national study in Sweden, conducted in 2002, reveals that only a minority of social work and social care students are exposed to the concept and practice of evaluation throughout their education, and this is in a most rudimentary way. R&D units offer practitioners more training in evaluation and related knowledge development activities. However, this work is not conducted in a focused manner nor is every Swedish municipality necessarily targeted. If evaluation education and training opportunities are viewed in light of a supply-and-demand situation, we may find an explanation of the current curriculum for evaluation in the social work educational system and the corresponding evaluation practice levels in social service organizations
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