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- Agevall Gross, Lotta, 1976-, et al.
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Brottsoffer i indikatorland : Öppna jämförelser inom socialtjänstens brottsofferstödjande arbete
- 2015
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 22:3-4, s. 341-358
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Crime victims in Indicatorland – Open comparisons in the social services’ work with victim supportSince the 90s there have been extensive changes in the public sector, such as rationalization and increasing demands for documentation and review. The changes have also affected the social services’ victim support work that has increasingly been subject to various forms of regulation, such as requirements for monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance. This article aims to examine one of the monitoring systems applied in the victim support work: the instrument of open comparisons. This article is based on an exploratory study of the local organization of crime prevention in two municipalities and analyses how the processes of open comparisons are organized at local, regional and central levels. The empirical data consists of documents such as legal sources and handbooks from e.g. the National Board of Health and Welfare and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, as well as documents obtained locally in the two municipalities. Furthermore, interviews were conducted with professionals working on different organizational levels. Analytically the study has been inspired by programme theory, which made it possible to concentrate on clarifying the operational idea in which open comparisons are based and capturing the consequences in the two cases. The study shows that open comparisons have been implemented without support from existing research. However, strong normative support for open comparisons exists within governmental agencies and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions. They are included as one of many elements of New Public Management and result in changes in the victim support work. In contrast to present visions, the performance is not affected to any significant extent. In contrast, a comprehensive administration is created, where employees of municipalities are supposed to collect data, register information and analyse the results generated by the open comparisons.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Fältexperiment för att studera etnisk diskriminering på den svenska arbets- och bostadsmarknaden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Förbundet för Forskning i Socialt Arbete. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 16:2, s. 105-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Under senare år har fältexperiment använts för att studera etnisk diskriminering på den svenska arbets- och bostadsmarknaden. I nedanstående framställning ges en presentation av fältexperiment som metod och en översikt över den forskning som genomförts med hjälp av fältexperiment i Sverige. Dessutom görs en framåtblickande diskussion.
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- Alexius, Katarina, 1967-
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Prognoser i tvångsvårdsärenden om omsorgssvikt
- 2013
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - Lund : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete (FORSA). - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 20:3-4, s. 186-202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study set out to analyze how background-context, prognoses and evidence-based facts are referred to in child welfare investigations and judgments concerning coercive care of neglected children. The texts of social investigations and court judgments in 16 cases concerning parents (30) and their children (29) in two counties in Sweden were analyzed by a hermeneutic case study. All cases concerns section 2 in The Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act (1990:52), which states that coercive care shall be decided if, due to neglect or some other situations, there is a “palpable risk of detriment” to the child’s health or development. Theoretical framework of sociology of law and of normative legalism were used. The study shows that background-context, prognoses and evidence-based facts seldom are connected in the texts. Background-contexts quantitively dominates, while prognoses are vestigial and rarely enunciates as emanating from evidence-based facts. Instead of describing risk-assessments a plurality of the descriptions in the texts pictures the children as already harmed by neglect. The conclusion of the study is that the sociological conceptions of “a palpable risk” differ a great deal from the legal-theoretical interpretation of the concept.
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- Alftberg, Åsa
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”Tidigare sa vi: Vad behöver ni hjälp med? Nu är det mer: Hur mår ni?” : Anhörigkonsulenters upplevelser av stöd till anhöriga under covid-19-pandemin.
- 2021
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete (FORSA). - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 28:4, s. 439-453
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Family care advisors work with specialized support for family carers within the municipalities. During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, however, support activities for family cares were essentially shut down. This article, which is based on qualitative interviews, examines family care advisors’ experiences of their work during the pandemic and the interaction strategies they describe. Trontos (1993) ethics of care has been used as a theoretical framework. The interviewees describe how their meetings with family carers have taken on new forms, mainly as telephone conversations and outdoor meetings. The significance of the meeting place has become more noticeable and something that must be planned around. Contacts with family carers now take place primarily on the initiative of the family care advisors. The content of the meetings has also changed and they are perceived as more demanding. The family care advisors emphasise that they can listen and confirm rather than offer practical solutions as these are made difficult during the pandemic. The emotional support to family carers has become more prominent and puts higher demands on the family care advisors’ emotional competence.
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- Alinia, Minoo, 1960-
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Ett hem i rörelse : diasporisk mobilisering i den svenska gemenskapens periferi
- 2008
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 15:3-4, s. 332-349
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Denna artikel lyfter fram problemet med exkludering ochdiskriminering och deras inverkan på relationer mellanmajoritetssamhället och migranter och diskuterar identitetsskapande,gränsdragningar, identifikationer ochgemenskapsbildande inom denna kontext. Artikeln utgårfrån den kurdiska diasporans erfarenheter i Sverige ochbygger på individuella intervjuer.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Hur bra fungerar SAMS-områdena i studier av grannskapseffekter? : En studie av SAMS-områdenas homogenitet
- 2012
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 19:2, s. 93-115
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- År 1994 lanserades SAMS-indelningen som alltsedan dess har använts i svenska studier av grannskapseffekter. Här visas att dessa områden inte är så homogena som det ibland förutsätts eller som de skulle kunna vara och att indelningen ser olika ut i olika kommuner. Förklaringar till den bristande homogeniteten söks i städers morfologi och indelningens tillkomsthistoria.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Socialbidragstagares flytt mellan storstad och avfolkningsbygd : Social dumpning eller problemanhoppning i förorten?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 28:1, s. 29-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The patterns of internal migration in Sweden among people on social benefits have been much debated in newspapers and in other general debates around the year 2020, but the knowledge base in this field is limited. Based on register data, this study concludes that people supported by social benefits are more prone to move, although their deviation from the general pattern is decreasing; that the net redistribution brings social beneficiaries from municipalities with decreasing populations to the big cities rather than the other way around, and certainly so among people of foreign background; that long-term social beneficiaries who move in the other direction have an increased likelihood to move on; and that the net pattern remains also when the effects of other attributes on migration are controlled for in a regression model. Thus, the migration pat-terns among long-term social beneficiaries hint mainly at a “social import” to the big cities from municipalities with decreasing populations, rather than the opposite.
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- Andersson, Gunnel, et al.
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Boendestöd – innebörder och effekter
- 2019
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Linkoping University Electronic Press. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 26:1, s. 65-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social support in independent living for persons with psychiatric disabilities – meanings and impactsSocial support in independent living is the most common social intervention for persons with psychiatric disabilities in Sweden. This article investigates what constitutes supportive social support, its meanings and impacts in respect of context, interaction and time. The article emanates from a reanalysis of the results of three user-oriented studies. In total, 56 persons with experience of this type of social support were interviewed. The analytical framework derives from theories of social interaction. The findings reveal that supporting social support is a complex social intervention conveyed through ”the doing”, the talking and the company of the support worker. The findings also show that the restraints of everyday life are allayed or abrogated due to the support: the undoable becomes doable. Finally there are impacts on the psychosocial situation: it contributes to increased well-being and improved psychiatric conditions.
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- Andersson, Mika, et al.
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Anmälningsbenägenhet vid utsatthet för hatbrott
- 2015
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete (FORSA). - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 22:3-4, s. 283-301
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The tendency to report hate crime victimization There are indicators suggesting that the tendency to report hate crime victimization to the police is lower in comparison to crimes without such a motive. There are also reasons to believe that victims of hate crime base their cost-benefit analysis of whether to report on a unique set of factors that differ from other crime types. The present study compares report rates for hate crimes and crimes without a bias-motive among Swedish university students. Reasons from refraining from reporting are also examined though a thematic analysis. The results show that victims of hate crime report their victimization to a significantly lower extent than other victims. Those who refrain from reporting trivialize and normalize their experiences, find alternative solutions to handle their victimization, and/or have a low trust in the police.
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- Andersson, Peter, 1980-, et al.
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Revitalizing residential care for children and youth. Cross-national trends and challenges. Whittaker K.J., Holmes, L., Del Valle J.F., & James, S. (red.) Oxford University Press: Oxford. (2023)
- 2023
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 30:2, s. 672-674
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Recension (refereegranskat)abstract
- Institutionsvård för barn och ungdomar (kollektiv vård och behandling dygnet runt) är en ofta ifrågasatt insats. Att föra samman barn med stora behov är förenat med risker och det finns ont om forskningsstudier som tydligt kan visa institutionsvårdens nytta för barns utveckling. Vårdformen präglas återkommande av skandaler och i Sverige rapporterades nyligen om våld och övergrepp vid Statens Institutionsstyrelses (SiS) särskilda ungdomshem. EU (Europeiska unionen) förordar “avinstitutionalisering” som överordnat mål och många länder, inklusive Sverige, prioriterar vård i familjehem framför institutioner. Samtidigt har institutionsvård en befäst position inom samhällsvård världen över. I Sverige är omkring vart fjärde barn i samhällsvård placerad vid ett HVB- eller SiS-hem. Svensk institutionsvård (SiS-hemmen undantagna) utförs på en löst sammanhållen marknad där vårdutbudet till stor del bestäms av privata aktörer.I antologin Revitalizing residential care for children and youth. Cross-national trends and challenges (Oxford University Press, 2023) diskuteras institutionsvård i sexton västländer (inklusive Argentina). Boken gör nedslag i så skilda länder som USA, Spanien, Israel, Finland och Tyskland (dessvärre ingår inte Sverige i antologin). Syftet med boken är att ge en bild av hur institutionsvård används i olika länder, men även att identifiera framgångsrika praktiker.
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- Andersson, Peter, 1980-
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Yrkeserfarenheter av våld och emotionella strategier : Röster från personalen på de särskilda ungdomshemmen
- 2023
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Linkoping University Electronic Press. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 29:2, s. 151-171
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the 2000s, the National Board of Institutional Care (SiS) has reported an increase in violent incidents between staff and young people. This article focuses the staffs´ professional everyday life, especially descriptions of how they handle violence in their professional everyday life and what directions the violence takes. The staffs´ everyday work is often depicted on the basis of various dilemmas and tensions, which can affect how they maneuver in terms of how they deal with, and are affected by, violence during their professional working day. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how staff describe the violence they encounter in terms of form, direction and extent, including their own handling of the violence. The theoretical starting point regarding violence is taken from a relational perspective where context, situation, form and intention are important for how violence is understood. The staff’s work is understood with the help of both Hochschild’s and Bolton’s descriptions of emotional work, where emphasis is placed on the development that Bolton pointed out regarding the importance of colleagues regarding feeling-rules. Fifty-three semi-structured interviews were conducted with staff at three different secure units for adolescents in Sweden. The material was organized through a thematic analysis, yielding four themes placed under two headings; ‘A violent scene? A matter of definition’ and ‘Handling violence: strategies employed’. The results show how staff describe youth as the violent party and how they suppress their own emotions. Additionally, staff articulated their own use of violence toward youth and their emotional stance, describing an interpersonal shield that protected them from violence. The results underline the importance of raising questions about the nature of violence in secure units for adolescents and how staff handle such violence in their everyday work.
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- Apelmo, Elisabet, 1964-, et al.
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”Gör plats!” : Om ableism, paternalism och konstruktionen av normbrytande funktionalitet
- 2022
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 29:2, s. 131-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ”Make room!” Concerning ableism, paternalism and the construction of dis/abilityWithin the social work profession, social vulnerability and social justice are central concerns. However, professional emphasis is on economic and social conditions and less on dis/ability, despite the fact that dis/ability is important, not only for services aimed specifically at people with dis/abilities, but the entire profession of social work is linked to dis/ability in various ways. The purpose of the article is to contribute to a deepened understanding of vulnerability in general and, in particular, the vulnerability of people with dis/abilities. An advertisement from the Swedish Public Employment Service’s campaign “Make room!” forms a point of departure for a theoretical discussion of how dis/ability is constructed. The article demonstrates how the advertisement is based on paternalistic and ableistic ways of thinking that connect dis/ability, gender, and race/ethnicity. Able-bodied perfection is regarded as desirable, while the deviant body is linked to deficiency and suffering. The article also deals with the critical discussion that followed the advertisement, which eventually led to the Swedish Public Employment Service withdrawing it. Finally, we argue in favour of a cripistemological perspective in social work. This means taking previously marginalized knowledge as a starting point and reformulate traditional perspectives. It also means seeking cross-border cooperation between social work and the disability rights move-ment as well as other social movements. Thus, the lived experience of vulnerability that can result from impairment and its effects, as well as the political vulnerability that arises due to lack of resources, are made visible, without vulnerability being interpreted from paternalistic and ableis-tic perspectives. Moreover, ideas of the normal body and the normal way of thinking and fee-ling can be made visible and criticized, and alternative visions for how to organize society can be formed.
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- Arnesson, Kerstin, 1958-, et al.
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Ett nödvändigt ont? : En studie om privata konsulter som genomför barnavårdsutredningar i Sverige
- 2021
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - Linköping : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete (FORSA). - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 28:2, s. 129-144
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Private consultants carrying out child protection investigations is a relatively new phenomenon in Swedish child welfare. The purpose of the study is to map and deepen the knowledge of the extent of private consultants handling and carrying out child protection investigations and to describe incentives to engage private consultants or terminate assignments in municipalities and town districts. Strategically, the empirical material has been obtained from three counties/22 municipalities and one big town/10 town districts in Sweden. The collection of the empirical material was implemented through structured telephone interviews with a high degree of standardized questions. The result shows that the number of child protection investigations in the examined municipalities/town districts increased markedly from 2013 to 2017, which led to a higher workload, a worse work environment and difficulties in recruiting experienced social secretaries. The majority of the municipalities solved the situation that had arisen by engaging private consultants. The situation gave rise to a market orientation of the investigating part of child welfare and a new arena for private actors was created. Generally, negative experiences of engaging consultants appear in regard to both the quality of the child protection investigations and the work environment at the workplace. The understanding was also that it was an expensive solution. The demand for consultants who could carry out child protection investigations was large and they could therefore dictate the conditions. The experience of the municipalities and town districts was strengthened over time, which meant that they acquired more knowledge of how to be clear in contracts regarding requirements of competence, experience, scope, content and quality. It is not entirely clear which development we can predict, more than stating that the private actors are established in social child welfare.
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- Arvidsson, Jessica, 1982-, et al.
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Sysselsättning för unga med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning – betydelsen av föräldrars utbildningsnivå och geografiska härkomst
- 2020
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - Lund : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 27:1, s. 25-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Studien analyserar sambanden mellan sysselsättning för unga vuxna med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning som gått i gymnasiesärskolan och deras sociala bakgrund, mätt som föräldrarnas utbildningsnivå och geografiska härkomst. Den här registerstudien baseras på Halmstad university register on pupils with intellectual disabilities (HURPID), Longitudinell integrationsdatabas för arbetsmarknads- och sjukförsäkringsstudier (LISA) samt LSS-registret. Studien omfattar 12 269 unga med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning som gick ut gymnasiesärskolan mellan 2001 och 2011. De samband som studeras analyseras genom multipla logistiska regressioner. Resultaten visar att föräldrars utbildningsnivå har viss betydelse för före detta gymnasiesärskoleelevers sysselsättning. Barn till högutbildade föräldrar har med större sannolikhet en sysselsättning inom daglig verksamhet och barn till lågutbildade föräldrar har med större sannolikhet ett förvärvsarbete. Sannolikheten för att ha någon av sysselsättningskategorierna daglig verksamhet eller förvärvsarbete är lägst bland barn till föräldrar som är födda i länder utanför Norden. Högutbildade föräldrar antas ha en högre grad av den ”välfärdskompetens” som krävs för att hantera dagens välfärdssystem och härigenom kunna påverka de ungas möjligheter att få insatser likt daglig verksamhet. Lågutbildade föräldrar antas ha egna erfarenheter av, och kontakter med, arbetsplatser där det finns arbetsuppgifter utan (eller med låga) formella kompetenskrav. Samhällets kunskaper och medvetenhet om den sociala bakgrundens betydelse för efter(sär)gymnasial sysselsättning bland unga med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning behöver öka. Detta i syfte att bättre möta varierande individuella förutsättningar och främja etablering i arbetslivet för fler unga vuxna med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning vid övergången från skoltid till arbetsliv.
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- Avby, Gunilla, et al.
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Social Services as a sustainable knowledge organization: from vision to reality?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Linkoping University Electronic Press. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 29:2, s. 195-207
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The imminent Social Services Act is expected to stipulate that decision-making should be "in accordance with scientific evidence and proven experience". If the proposal is fulfilled, the Act will contain requirements similar to existing acts in other welfare sectors, such as requirements for increased systematic follow-ups, developmental work and the use of knowledge from various knowledge sources. These are characteristics that symbolize a practice that both uses verified knowledge and develops new knowledge by testing, documenting and evaluating new ideas and working methods in a systematic process in everyday life. In this article, we argue that the goal presupposes an aspiration towards a knowledge organization; therefore we want to contribute with an analysis of what this means for social services.The “knowledge-seeking social worker” is a key actor in the transition towards a knowledge organization, because it is in the everyday social work practice, that is, the interactions between the social worker and the client, that the knowledge organization largely becomes visible. However, a large-scale transition towards a sustainable knowledge organization cannot depend on only professionals and their ability to engage clients in work processes, it will require changes at a system level, where actors in politics, academia and practice take responsibility for future investments. This article highlights four areas of importance: 1) co-ordination of research and practice, 2) continuing education to build expert knowledge and broaden career paths, 3) development of political ownership for quality and direction, and 4) organization and management for knowledge use and knowledge development.
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- Backlund, Åsa, et al.
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Institutioner för ensamkommande barn : – hur kan man förstå en snabbt expanderande och turbulent vård- och omsorgsmarknad? [Residential care for unaccompanied minors. How can a growing and turbulent care market be understood?]
- 2018
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Linkoping University Electronic Press. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 25:3-4, s. 211-229
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The number of unaccompanied minors arriving in Sweden has grown rapidly in recent years and the care of these children has become a significant part of the Swedish child welfare system. In this article, we discuss what has happened to the residential care market (known as HVB for short) in which most of these children are placed by the municipal social services. The specific questions we seek to illuminate are: Which type of residential care actors have expanded their operations? Have new actors entered the residential care market for unaccompanied minors? How can we understand changes in the residential care market in the current situation? The study is based upon the Health and Social Care Inspectorate’s registry of all licensed residential care units in Sweden. We compare data for all residential care units that targeted unaccompanied minors in 2014 with an updated register from March 2016. The residential care units are categorized based on organizational type (municipal, large and small private companies, municipal entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations) and the article illustrates the composition of organizational type. The results show that despite the growing need for residential care for unaccompanied minors, the composition of organizational type has not changed significantly since 2014. However, the number of beds for unaccompanied minors is higher than for traditional HVBs, and it has increased between 2014 and 2016. The study also indicates that the composition of residential care for unaccompanied minors differs from the residential care market for other groups of children and young people.
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- Backlund, Åsa, et al.
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Socialtjänstens respons på "flyktingkrisen" : Mottagandet av ensamkommande barn
- 2021
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 28:1, s. 75-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Syftet med artikeln är att analysera organisering av och synen på mottagandet av ensamkommande barn inom socialtjänsten våren 2016 – en tidpunkt då antalet asylsökande ensamkommande barn nyligen nått en extrem omfattning under kort tid. Artikeln baseras på en totalundersökning (enkät) av socialtjänstens resurser, organisering och insatser i arbetet med ensamkommande barn och ungdomar. Resultatet visar att trots en statlig ambition om normalisering och integrering av mottagandet i den sociala barnavården, har en tydlig respons från socialtjänsten varit att specialisera verksamheten utifrån den ökande klientgruppen. Den här studien ger inget belägg för att specialiseringen lett till bättre kvalitet, tvärtom indikeras ett positivt samband mellan kvalitet och en integrerad organisation. Främst tyder studien på att resurser, övergripande samverkan och engagerade politiker har varit viktigt för hur man inom socialtjänsten uppfattar möjligheten att anpassa stödinsatser efter behov och att följa upp insatser. Noterbart med tanke på tidpunkten för studien är att en majoritet av respondenterna (företrädesvis chefer inom socialtjänstens verksamhet för ensamkommande barn) var förhållandevis nöjda med det stöd som erbjöds till ensamkommande barn/ungdomar, dock påtalades brister i möjlighet att följa upp och tillgång till insatser som matchar målgruppens behov.
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- Bengtsson Ryan, Anna
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Motståndets motstånd - reaktioner på socionomers och barnmorskors mobilisering
- 2020
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420. ; 27:3-4, s. 309-328
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Artikeln handlar om villkor och förutsättningar för välfärdsprofessionella att handla politiskt inom ramen för nyliberal politik och styrning. Utifrån intervjuer med aktiva i två kollektiva uppror i den svenska välfärdssektorn analyseras hur chefer och politiska företrädare har bemött deras mobilisering och krav. Genom motståndsteori och begrepp från tidigare forskning om jämställdhetsarbete analyseras hur detta motståndets motstånd tar sig uttryck i olika former av makttekniker. Artikeln visar hur rädsla skapas och används samt hur olika makttekniker för att upprätthålla distans används, både för att förhindra att kollektiv mobilisering sker och för att dessa frågor om villkor och välfärd inte ska politiseras i termer av ojämlika maktförhållanden.
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- Bergman, Ann-Sofie, Docent i socialt arbete, 1963-, et al.
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”Andra ögon idag?” : Socialtjänstens hantering av barnavårdsutredningar om våldsutsatthet
- 2023
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 30:3, s. 739-758
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social work involving child protection investigations is extensive within social services. The largest proportion of investigations are initiated due to reports of concern. Between the years 2010 and 2021, national statistics indicates that reports of concern increased by 200 percent. This article analyses the social services’ handling of child protection investigations initiated due to concerns about violence. The article is part of a larger study of privatisation in child protection investigations in six municipalities, with comparisons between investigations carried out by municipally employed social workers and private consultants. A high proportion of the investigations examined were initiated due to concerns about violence. The article analyses child protection investigations regarding 70 children, where the reports of concern contain information about violence, either concern about violence against the child or concern that the child experienced violence in close relationships. The article is based on qualitative and quantitative content analyses of the investigations and interviews with professionals. The results show that violence could tend to disappear in the documentation during the investigation process. The investigator could reformulate the questions that guided the investigation and reformulate the statements about violence from one person (father) towards another person (mother) into parental “conflicts”. Instead of a focus on violence, the focus of the investigation could be directed towards the parents’ own problems or the child’s behaviour. One explanation could be that, according to the reports of concern, children who were exposed to violence did not always have the opportunity to express themselves in safe and secure ways during the investigation process. The study shows differences between investigations carried out by private consultants and employed social workers in terms of children’s participation and the extent to which investigations led to any intervention.
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- Bergmark, Anders, 1951-
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Om medikaliseringen av svensk missbrukarvård
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 19:3-4, s. 232-242
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Under de senaste 10 åren har propåerna om en radikal omorganisering av svensk missbrukarvård vuxit sig allt starkare. Den allmänna inriktningen hos dessa påtryckningar har utgjorts av en medikalisererande argumentation beträffande den vetenskapliga kunskapen om missbruk och behandling: I denna artikel granskas några av medikaliseringsdiskursens mest centrala argument.
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- Bergmark, Åke, 1958-, et al.
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Från lokal förankring till regional samverkan? FoU-miljöer i socialtjänstens individ- och familjeomsorg
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 22:2, s. 133-151
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- R&D units in Swedish social services: From local integration to regional collaboration.For a period of over thirty years, the emergence of R&D units serving locally based Swedish social services has been considered an important ingredient in the evolvement of more professional and knowledge-based social services. It has also been regarded as a vital component for increasing practice orientation in social work research, both inside and outside the universities. In this article we describe and analyse the development of these units, with respect to their pro-liferation, organizational features and how they are valued by representatives of local social servi-ces. Our data show that almost every municipality in Sweden is, in one way or another, served by an R&D unit. These units, however, display a considerable variation with respect to basic resour-ces, activity and organizational framework. Data enabled the identification of four basic catego-ries that, more or less, represent different phases in the evolvement of R&D activities. At one end, representing the early stages, there are units integrated with and exclusively serving single municipalities. At the other end there are R&D units organized within regional associa-tions, serving multiple municipalities and in general established in recent years. In between, there are two categories of R&D units formed in direct collaboration between a limited number of municipalities – one category formally connected to academia, another with less systematic con-tacts with university-based research. In general, development over time has resulted in a dilution of resources and an increasing distance between practice and R&D activities. Originally, the units were established by the initiatives of the municipalities and expected to respond to research needs emanating from practice. The regional associations have to a considerable extent been initiated and funded by earmarked state grants with the intention to implement evidence-based practice.
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- Billinger, Kajsa, 1949-
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60 till 70-åringars tal om den egna alkoholkonsumtionen
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - Lund : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete (FORSA). - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 19:3-4, s. 170-185
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- Björk, Alexander, 1983-
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Mot en situerad standardisering inom socialtjänsten
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 24:3-4, s. 303-313
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- The past two decades have witnessed an increased demand for standardized documentation within the social services field. This have resulted in the proliferation, translation and attempt to use various kinds of standardized instruments to document clients’ needs and outcomes of interventions. Reviewing the social work literature on standardized instruments and providing empirical examples, this article identifies a widespread unsystematic use in everyday practice. This seriously undermines the ability to use gathered information to make reliable quantitative analyses of clients’ outcomes. Based on the concept of ‘situated standardization’ the article argues for a new direction in the attempts to standardize documentation within the social services. Rather than developing standardized instruments outside the social services context, as in current efforts, situated standardization points to the need to develop instruments from within this context. This would arguably produce instruments better suited for the preconditions of social services’ work, and therefore easier to use systematically. Thus, rather than a ‘light’ standardization, this can be described as a different kind of standardization situated in the actual work of the social services. An important implication is that standardized instruments need to be developed together with a close empirical examination of the setting in which it is supposed to be used.
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- Björngren Cuadra, Carin
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En scenariobaserad analys av ett IT-avbrott i socialtjänsten : anpassningar och social redundans
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 25:3-4, s. 287-307
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- This article takes as its starting point the fact that documentation as well as communication within the social services are to a great extent dependent on IT. Against that backdrop, an investigation is presented whose aim is to contribute to knowledge about what IT failures can mean within the social services. The focus is on the immediate consequences for the documentation and communication of the social services. The aim is also to contribute to the understanding of how the course of events relates to the maintenance of social work despite interruptions. Systems theory provides an overarching theoretical framework. Based on that approach, social work is seen as a societal functional system aiming at the administration of exclusion. The study is based on empirical material consisting of assessments of the consequences of failures, as formulated by social services staff in risk and vulnerability analyses conducted within the framework of the investigation. The results include descriptions of consequences that arise as a result of inaccessible operative systems but also as a result of, for example, the disruption of VoIP telephony. Further, the results describe concrete adaptations and suggestions for possible changes that potentially reduce the vulnerability entailed by IT dependency. The conclusion is that the IT failure does not lead to a corresponding failure of social work as a functional system, despite technical dependencies. The system is maintained through adaptations, which are possible thanks to functional equivalence (that is, a goal may be reached in several ways) and available redundancy. It is the staff that, besides a number of technical adaptations, make concrete organizational and social adaptations, to some degree at the expense of their working environment. This is called social redundancy in order to highlight how lost technology is replaced by social processes.
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