Interactive advantage, cementing of positions, and social pedagogical recognition – a narratively inspired analysis of professional actors’ oral representations of health promotion, prevention, and remediation efforts targeting young people who use alcohol and narcotics

• The purpose of this study is to present new knowledge about the oral representations of the health promotion, prevention, and remediation efforts of professional actors working with young people who use alcohol and narcotics. The narrative empirical material is based on 23 interviews with professionals working with this population of young people within the context of upper-secondary school activities and outpatient treatment units in Sweden. In their oral representations, professional actors depict themselves as having an interactive advantage in relation to the verbal category of “young people who use alcohol and narcotics”. These verbal patterns seem to cement the professional actor as a superior who sets the agenda for placing these young people within a prevailing normative order. The analysis indicates that an inclusive approach by professionals is crucial to achieving several important aims. An inclusive approach also imposes demands, however, on how upper-secondary schools and outpatient treatment units collaborate with each other in this work with young people. This approach also plays a role in determining the support and room for manoeuvring that professional actors have relative to normatively right and deviant actions and to laws and policies that to some extent govern this practical work.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

school success

social pedagogical development

verbal portrayal

oral portrayal

verbal emphasis

dramatisation

educator

student

special educator

special education teacher

school counsellor

study and career counsellor

youth counsellor

treatment worker

head teacher

school nurse

section manager

social services

head of unit

outpatient care

substance abuse problem

success

obstacle

collaboration

Sociologi med utbildningsvetenskaplig inriktning

Sociology Education

Social Psychology

Socialpsykologi

Socialt arbete

Social Work

Pedagogics and Educational Sciences

Pedagogik och Utbildningsvetenskap

Social Pedagogy

Socialpedagogik

Missbruks- och beroendevård

Substance Abuse Treatment

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

kon (ämneskategori)