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- Andersson, Katarina, et al.
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Governance, Accountability, and Organizational Development : Eldercare Unit Managers' and Local Politicians' Experiences of and Responses to State Supervision of Swedish Eldercare
- 2018
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In: Journal of Aging & Social Policy. - : Routledge. - 0895-9420 .- 1545-0821. ; 30:5, s. 419-439
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores how local politicians and care unit managers in Swedish eldercare experience and respond to state supervision. Twelve politicians and 12 managers in 15 previously inspected municipalities were interviewed about their experiences of and reactions to state supervision (SSV) in relation to their views of care quality and routines in eldercare practice. The findings indicate that local managers and political chairs perceived SSV in eldercare positively at a superficial level, but were critical of and disappointed with specific aspects of it: in terms of a) governance—chairs and managers said SSV strengthened implementation of national policies via local actors, but were critical of SSV’s narrow focus on control and flaws in eldercare practice; b) accountability—SSV was seen as limited to accountability for finances and systemic performance; and c) organizational development—SSV was seen as limited to improving routines and compliance with legislation, while local definitions of quality are broader than that. In general, local actors regarded SSV as improving administrative aspects and routines in practice but ignoring the relational content of eldercare quality.
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- Andersson, Katarina, 1963-, et al.
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Statlig tillsyn
- 2019
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In: Perspektiv på granskning inom offentlig sektor. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789151100654 ; , s. 55-70
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- Hanberger, Anders, 1953-, et al.
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Auditing and accountability
- 2017
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In: Social and caring professions in European welfare states. - Bristol : Policy Press. - 9781447327196 ; , s. 83-97
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter consists of two parts. First, two accountability dilemmas are identified, key concepts are defined, and a framework for exploring the interplay among democratic governance, audit systems, and accountability is presented. Second, two different but dominant audit systems used in Swedish eldercare are described and analysed in light of this framework, and consequences of auditing and accountability for key actors involved are discussed, as well as possible ways of resolving the two accountability dilemmas. In relation to the volume, this chapter explores conditions, trends, and challenges in today's audit society and their implications for welfare professions and other key actors. Swedish eldercare is an illustrative case of a phenomenon occurring in most policy sectors.
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- Hanberger, Anders, 1953-, et al.
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Can state supervision improve eldercare? : An analysis of the soundness of the Swedish supervision model
- 2018
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In: British Journal of Social Work. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 0045-3102 .- 1468-263X. ; 48:2, s. 371-389
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines the assumptions regarding how Swedish state supervision (SSV) ofeldercare is to achieve its intended effects. It explores how SSV is intended to work toensure and improve eldercare quality, and theoretically and empirically assesses the validityof its guiding assumptions with programme theory methodology. The theoreticalassessment suggests that most intended effects are partly achieved, though the qualityenhancingassumption finds little support in caring research. The assumption that thesupervised parties will improve their compliance with laws and regulations has some validity,but this compliance is temporary and confined to the aspects of eldercare beingsupervised. Twenty-four interviews with the chairs of Social Welfare Committees andcare unit managers provide empirical support for all but two intended effects. SSV hasnot increased ‘awareness of national regulative demands in eldercare’ or contributed to‘general quality improvement in eldercare’. Four unintended effects of SSV were also recognisedin the interviews—for example, unsupervised caring activities were less prioritised.The authors conclude that, although SSV does little to improve eldercare quality, itis needed for transparency and accountability as well as to hold local governments andpublic and private service providers to account for compliance with national statutes.
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- Hanberger, Anders, 1953-, et al.
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Hur kan granskning av äldreomsorg studeras?
- 2019. - 1
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In: Perspektiv på granskning inom offentlig sektor. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789151100654 ; , s. 39-54
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- Nygren, Karina, et al.
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Adolescent self-reported health in relation to school factors : a multilevel analysis
- 2014
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In: Journal of School Nursing. - : Sage Publications. - 1059-8405 .- 1546-8364. ; 30:2, s. 114-122
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of the study was to examine school-related determinants of self-reported health among adolescents. Questionnaire survey data comprising 4,972 students, Grades 7 through 9, from 20 schools in northern Sweden were used. Also, complimentary data about each school were collected from the Swedish National Agency for Education. Using multilevel logistic regression analyses, results showed that most variation in self-reported health was explained by individual-level differences. Truancy, bullying, and poor relations with teachers significantly increased the odds ratio of reporting poor general health, for boys and for girls. Most variables at the school level, for example, school size and student-teacher ratio, did not render significant associations with students' self-reported health. In conclusion, this study indicates that health promotion at school, including school health services, may benefit from focusing primarily on individual-level determinants of health, that is, students' relations to peers and teachers, without ignoring that bullying and weak student-teacher relationships also may induce school-level interventions.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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Norm compliance and self-reported health among Swedish adolescents
- 2011
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1403-4948 .- 1651-1905. ; 39:1, s. 44-50
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Aims: This study examines the relationship between norm compliance and self-reported health in adolescents, and how this differs between genders. Our specific aim was to investigate if extremely high norm compliance revealed any particular health patterns. Methods: This empirical study used a web-based survey from 2005, which was distributed to all students (n = 5,066) in years 7—9 of compulsory school within six municipalities in northern Sweden. The respondents answered questions about their general health as well as specific health problems such as headaches, stomach ache, sleeping difficulties and stress. Compliance was measured according to different norm-related behaviour, such as truancy, crime and use of tobacco, alcohol and narcotics. Results: The majority of respondents reported good health and norm-compliant behaviour. Girls reported more health problems than boys, a difference that increased with age. Those who were more norm compliant reported better health, fewer somatic complaints and less stress, which goes against our initial hypothesis that extremely high norm compliance and self-reported ill-health are related. There seemed to be a stronger relationship between self-reported health and norm compliance for girls than boys, in absolute terms. Conclusions: The results clearly show a relationship between norm compliance and health, and suggest inequalities between genders.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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Parents matter : but relations to parents do not explain gender differences in self-reported health in adolescents
- 2012
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - : Wiley. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 26:4, s. 643-653
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of the study was to explore whether parent-adolescent relations are associated to self-reported health of adolescents. Logistic regression analyses were performed on a cross-sectional data set consisting of 5060 adolescents, grades 7-9, from six municipalities in the northern part of Sweden. The study was approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Umeå, Sweden. Results showed that, in both boys and girls, experiencing low parental demands as well as perceiving the relationship quality and the communication with parents as poor were significantly associated with having poor general health, somatic complaints and feelings of stress. In general, girls scored lower on self-reported health than boys, but our findings indicate that these gender differences could not be explained by relations to parents. In conclusion, relations to parents play an important role for self-reported health of adolescents. Although no causal-effect statements can be determined in this study, it is implied that there is a need for health professionals, such as school nurses, school welfare officers, etc., to pay special attention to parent-adolescent relations in their work with adolescents.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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What happens with local survey findings? : a study of how adolescent school surveys are disseminated and utilized in Swedish schools
- 2013
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170. ; 57:5, s. 526-543
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper aimed at examining the barriers to and facilitators of disseminating and utilizing the results of a local Swedish school survey. Interviews with 21 school district managers/principals were performed. Results showed that dissemination and utilization of local survey data appeared as two interrelated processes. With those processes, various barriers and facilitators were mentioned. The barriers and facilitators were not merely the opposites of each other; instead they qualitatively differed from each other depending on what phase in the process the manager/principal referred to. The results also showed that the dissemination phase was both a prerequisite for and interwoven with the utilization phase, e.g. dissemination efforts were important for how the survey results were utilized.
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- Nygren, Lennart, 1953-, et al.
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Socialt arbete i granskningssamhället
- 2011. - 1
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In: Utvärdering i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur & Kultur. - 9789127119826 ; , s. 300-314
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Analys av korta narrativ
- 2021. - 2
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In: Att forska i socialt arbete. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144131603 ; , s. 165-197
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Analysing written narratives : considerations on the ‘code-totality problems’
- 2010
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In: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - Lillehammer : The Centre for Public Policy Innovation, Lillehammer University College (HiL). - 1892-2783. ; 1:1, s. 1-20
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article describes and discusses a number of fundamental aspects of analysing short written narratives. Of particular interest are the code-totality problems that arise during the transformation of several individual stories into a collective narrative. This article starts with a brief introduction to our previous narrative research on Swedish social-work students, which is followed by a description of textual interpretation according to Paul Ricoeur’s theory of interpretation, and a discussion and elaboration on the different concepts of meaning within his theory. The core of this article is an account of four models for analysing narrative data from several informants. This is followed by a concrete example of the implications that follow from the implementation of these models. We conclude that the degree of heterogeneity in the narrative material affects the choice of the mode of textual analysis and the code compilation.
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Inledning : Utvärdering i socialt arbete
- 2011. - 1
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In: Utvärdering i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur & Kultur. - 9789127119826 ; , s. 17-33
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Olikheter och beröringspunkter
- 2013. - 2
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In: Kunskap i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9789127134065 ; , s. 176-179
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Perspektiv och utvecklingslinjer
- 2013. - 2
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In: Kunskap i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9789127134065 ; , s. 79-82
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- Coe, Anna-Britt, 1967-, et al.
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Youth politics as multiple processes : how teenagers construct political action in Sweden
- 2016
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In: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Routledge. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 19:10, s. 1321-1337
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Alternative approaches to power in youth politics are needed to overcome the conceptual dichotomy between youth political action that is either linked to – or delinked from – state institutions. This paper offers an alternative drawn from a study that sought to empirically explore, and build theory upon, how teenagers construct their political action. Our qualitative study among 10 activists aged between 17 and 19 in a medium-size city in Northern Sweden found that youth constructed their political action as four different processes: moving from consciousness to action, moving from personal experience to shared goals, moving from social activities to political activities, and moving from single to multiple arenas. We integrated these processes in the concept Youth Politics as Multiple Processes. Youth efforts to bring about these processes were not always fruitful because, as their political action gained complexity, youth faced greater constraints for recognizing, addressing and challenging power from age-based exclusion, state-centered definitions of politics, and adult disinterest in youth demands. According to our findings, youth constructed political action based in an approach to power that was not state-centered. We linked our findings to youth politics research and social movement theory that similarly proposed alternative approaches to power.
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- Du, Yaqiong, et al.
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Interventions of Chinese nonprofit charitable organizations in the rescue of children in difficulty
- 2018
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In: Social Sciences. - : MDPI. - 2076-0760. ; 7:97, s. 1-13
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In June 2016, China promulgated the “Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening the Work of Rescuing Children in Difficulty”, which broadened the coverage of child welfare in China. The document clearly encourages and supports the participation of nonprofit charitable organizations in improving and complementing the public support system for children living in difficulty. This paper reports an assessment study of the relief program for children with congenital heart disease, which was launched by the Red Cross in L Province. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews with six Red Cross employees and 10 parents of stricken families, and telephone interviews with 66 recipient families, were carried out. Additionally, a review of a large number of background documents was analyzed to assess interventions by social organizations in the rescue of children in difficulty. The project was shown to reduce poverty and improve medical treatment for children with congenital heart disease. The role of nonprofit charitable organizations in relation to the child protection system can be characterized as “leak-filling”.
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- Forsberg, Birgitta, et al.
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Självhjälpsgrupper för personer med smärta : En nationell kartläggning
- 2009
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In: Socionomen, Forskningssupplement. - Stockholm : Sveriges socionomers, personal- & förvaltningstjänstemäns riksförbund (SSR). - 0283-1929. ; :3, Forskningssupplement 25, s. 66-75
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Artikeln redovisar en kartläggning av självhjälpsgrupper i Sverige för personer med smärta. Kartläggningen visar att när självhjälpsgrupperna organiseras inom frivilliga organisationer och/eller studieförbund finns en högre andel självstyrda grupper och grupper med cirkelledare, de uppges oftare bestå av enbart kvinnor samt att gruppernas namn anger mer tydligt att de inriktar sig på smärta än när verksamheten organiseras offentligt. Det mest slående resultatet är att självhjälpsgrupper framför allt samlar kvinnor som deltagare, ovasett huvudman.
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- Fylkesnes, Marte K, et al.
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Frykten for barnevernet : En undersøkelse av etniske minoritetsforeldres oppfatninger
- 2015
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In: Norges Barnevern. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 0800-1014 .- 1891-1838. ; 92:2, s. 80-96
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As part of a larger research project, we interviewed ten parents with refugee backgrounds about their experiences of contact with child welfare services in Norway. Despite parents describing both positive and negative experiences, and trust as well as distrust, we found that fear of the child welfare services was a central theme. Thematic analyses showed that fear of the child welfare services was not primarily related to the interviewees' own negative experiences, but to a variety of perceptions or representations of the child welfare services that informants described as common or prevalent among people from ethnic minorities in general. We found that the representations of the child welfare services could be categorized into the following themes: 1) child welfare services primarily take children away from parents, 2) child welfare services do not go into dialogue with parents, and 3) child welfare services discriminate against ethnic minority families. The analysis is discussed critically in light of Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser's understandings of recognition and social justice. We suggest that the parents’ fear of the child welfare services can be understood as fear of experiencing humiliation and disrespect through contact with child welfare services; fear of losing their children, becoming invisible and being discriminated against. A key implication of the study is the need for further research that examines the fear of child welfare among people from ethnic minorities, as well as measures that address distrust of services in parts of the population.
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- Fylkesnes, Marte Knag, et al.
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Negotiating deficiency : exploring ethnic minority parents' narratives about encountering child welfare services in Norway
- 2018
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In: Child & Family Social Work. - Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 23:2, s. 196-203
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Evaluating the participatory opportunities for service users within social welfare institutions is a pressing issue. In this article, we explore a group of ethnic minority parents' experiences with child welfare services (CWS) in Norway. A strong narrative theme was deficiency positioning—how lacking a Norwegian normative set of knowledge and skills challenged the parents' opportunities to participate. We analysed how deficiency positioning was perceived, negotiated, and contested in the parents' accounts, and 4 themes emerged: (a) learning to parent, (b) contesting expert knowledge, (c) learning to be a client, and (d) constructing CWS deficiency. Nancy Fraser's concept of “participatory parity” was applied to explore how current institutional structures may enable and limit parents' participation. The analysis provides insight into agencies and informants' sense-making processes as well as the diverse resources and strategies that parents draw upon in the CWS encounter. Furthermore, we argue that an interplay between a strong focus on “parenting skills” and bureaucratic and economic structures positions ethnic minority parents as deficient, thus providing powerful mechanisms for marginalization. Implications for case work and institutional levels are discussed.
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- Gümüscü, Ahmet, 1981-, et al.
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Bringing the Family Back in : On Role Assignment and Clientification in the Swedish Social Services
- 2015
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In: Social Sciences. - Basel : MDPI AG. - 2076-0760. ; 4:1, s. 117-133
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Sweden, municipal social services provide help and support for vulnerable people with a variety of needs. Although the family has long been understood to be a focus of social work interventions, it is unclear how it is brought into the casework process in the highly individualised and specialised municipal social services. Therefore, in this study we investigated processes of client-making and role assignment in five service sectors: social assistance, child welfare, substance abuse, disability, and elderly care. We carried out focus group interviews with social workers in each of these sectors in a mid-sized community in central Sweden. Findings showed that clienthood and the family are interpreted in different ways. The family is brought into or kept out of service provisions in ways that are connected to social workers’ construction of the family either as expert, client or non-client. However, the role of the family may also change during the casework process. Findings are examined in relation to theories of the welfare state and implications for family-focused practice are discussed.
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- Gümüscü, Ahmet, et al.
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Social work and the management of complexity in Swedish child welfare services
- 2020
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In: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Routledge. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 10:3, s. 257-269
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper elucidates how Swedish child welfare social workers manage complexity co-occuring in the families with which they work and the organisational contexts of practice. Focus groups were held with social workers in three municipalities in Sweden who described work processes generally and in response to a fictitious vignette. The vignette was constructed as a complex family situation to explore how social workers approach complexity when faced with a family with complex needs. Findings showed that social workers are challenged in their everyday work where they are aware of the many needs in a family. They focus on immediate conditions for children while recognising that some problems are less amenable to being solved. However they try to manage complexities related to families as well as the structural conditions of work by sorting, prioritising and oscillating between a child focus and a family service orientation. This paper serves as a necessary reminder of the complexity of social work in the broader area of child welfare and raises further questions about the use of comparative typologies to explain social work practices
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- Gümüscü, Ahmet, 1981-
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Socialtjänsten och familjen : socialarbetares konstruktion av familj och insatser i familjerelaterad komplexitet
- 2019
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of this dissertation is to describe and analyse how social workers in Swedish social services define “family” and handle complexity when they work with families, and especially “families with complex needs” as the target of their interventions. Whereas families with complex needs can be understood to involve one or more family members having two or more simultaneously occurring needs or problems (e.g. mental health issues, addiction, financial problems, dysfunctionality, child abuse, ageing, disabilities, and family violence), complexity in social work extends beyond that which exists in families. Therefore, to broaden our understanding of these complexities in social work, this research sought answers to the following questions:• How do social workers define and set boundaries around the concept of “family” when they target their interventions? How do these definitions differ between different sectors of the social services – elderly care, disability care, addiction, child welfare, and financial assistance? (study I)• How do social workers involve families and family members in the casework from intake and through the investigation process within different social service sectors? What happens to the conceptualisation of family through an investigation process? (study II)• How do social workers in child welfare services describe and manage complexity in their work generally and when they work with families with complex needs? (study III)• How then do social workers in different service sectors conceive of and manage complexities in their everyday work, especially when it comes to families with complex needs? (study IV)The empirical material in studies I and IV consists of telephone interviews with 60 social workers working in five different sectors in four municipalities. Study II is based on five focus group interviews with social workers working in five different sectors in one larger municipality. Study III is based on focus groups with vignettes with social workers working in child welfare in three municipalities.In the first study findings revealed that different mediating mechanisms were adopted by social workers in what can be understood to be a deconstruction of the family. These mechanisms included legislation (as a control mechanism), household composition (boundary mechanism) and service needs (professional mechanism), which were used in various ways and to differing degrees within each sector. The five unique and sector-specific conceptualisations of families are implicated in how interventions are constructed and work processes targeted at individuals and families.In the second study findings showed that clienthood and family are interpreted in different ways. The family was brought into or kept out of service provisions in ways that were connected to social workers’ construction of the family either as expert, client or non-client. How social workers understood the role of the family changed during the casework process. In the third study, findings showed that social workers were challenged in their everyday work where they focused on immediate conditions for children while avoiding problems that were less amenable to being solved. Social workers tried to manage complexities related to families by either sorting prioritizing or oscillating between different child welfare orientations. In the fourth study, findings showed that there were different types of reported complex needs: deeprooted needs and broad-based needs. Complex family needs were transformed into complex cases by social workers, based on considerations of family composition, relationships between clients and social workers, and organizational contexts of practice. The boundaries between these three domains were not distinct, and the interconnectivity and complexities occurring in and between them contributed to the production of much of the “wickedness” that exists in social work practice.A main conclusion is that the concept of family is understood and targeted differently in different sectors of social work. In some cases, the use of the family concept can be related to the clients' specific needs. Families who social workers meet often have combinations of needs and problems that result in numerous interventions from the social services. When social workers meet these families, they can feel ambiguity and uncertainty because of the complexity of the needs or other complexities. And, in individualised social services, a narrow focus on the needs of individuals can make it difficult to see the situation of the family as a whole. This research highlights the importance of bringing this web of complexities to the forefront of practice.
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- Hanberger, Anders, 1953-, et al.
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Can state supervision improve eldercare? An analysis of the assumptions of the Swedish supervision model
- 2015
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Can state supervision improve eldercare? An analysis of the assumptions of the Swedish supervision modelBackground: Lately the supervision of Swedish eldercare has been reinforced to ensure better compliance with laws and regulations. Policy-makers express high expectation that this reform will improve quality in eldercare, and ensure older citizens a good and equal distribution of eldercare.Purpose: The aim of this paper is to unfold the underlying assumptions of how the supervision model (inspectorate) is intended to work to ensure and improve quality in Swedish eldercare, and to probe the validity of the assumptions.Method: A program theory analysis is carried out to describe how state supervision is assumed to work to achieve intended effects. These assumptions are referred to as the supervision’s program theory. A policy scientific method is applied to reconstruct the program theory. Once the program theory is described its consistence is analyzed and the validity is assessed against supervision theory and caring theory.Results: The assumption that the supervised will improve compliance with laws and regulations has some validity but confined to aspects of eldercare being supervised. The theories we used provide no support that supervision is an effective tool for improving quality in eldercare.Conclusions: Reinforced supervision cannot be justified with reference to supervision being an effective tool or mechanism to enhance quality in eldercare. However, some kind of supervision is necessary for transparency and holding local governments, and public and private service providers to account for compliance with the statues. Supervision also reinforce the national objectives and standards that should guide social service committees and eldercare service providers.
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- Hanberger, Anders, 1953-, et al.
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Tillsyn och öppna jämförelser : exemplet äldreomsorgen
- 2015
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Conference paper (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Äldreomsorg har genom olika former av utvärdering fått avsevärt ökad uppmärksamhet i media och politisk debatt. I denna session diskuteras vilka konsekvenser som två dominerande former av utvärdering – tillsyn och öppna jämförelser – har för äldreomsorgens styrning, ansvarsutkrävande och verksamhetsutveckling. Sessionen utgår från resultat från ett Forte-finansierat forskningsprojekt om användning av utvärdering i äldreomsorgen.
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- Hedman, Åsa-Helena, et al.
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Thai-Swedish couples in the Swedish daily press-discursive constitutions of 'The Other'
- 2009
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In: NORA. - : Routledge. - 0803-8740 .- 1502-394X. ; 17:1, s. 34-47
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study examines discursive representations of Thai-Swedish couples in the Swedish daily press. The sample studied includes 17 articles. The study shows that the couples are constituted as inherently “different” through interweaving discourses such as a romantic love discourse, a sex tourism discourse, and a normalizing discourse, and through intersecting power relations such as those of gender, “race”/ethnicity, class, and sexuality. The normalized position representing “Swedishness” is not usually made explicit but is nevertheless constantly reproduced, and hierarchies are formed within as well as between the “normal” couple and “the Other”
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- Khoo, Evelyn, 1964-, et al.
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From Needs to Relationships to Organisations : Transactional Complexity in Social Work in the Swedish Social Services
- 2020
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In: British Journal of Social Work. - : Oxford University Press. - 0045-3102 .- 1468-263X. ; 50:7, s. 2098-2115
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores how Swedish social workers in different sectors of the social services understand complexity in relation to the needs found in ‘family’ and in social work practice. This study is based on interviews with sixty social workers in five service sectors: child welfare, elderly care, disability care, substance abuse and social assistance. The social workers’ reports of understanding and dealing with families with complex needs reveal distinctions between deeply rooted and broadly based needs. Complex family needs are transformed into complex cases based on family composition, relationships between clients and social workers and organisational context. Complexity theory, and in particular the term transactional complexity, is applied to describe the interactive relationship in and between complex needs, relational complexity and organisational complexity. The boundaries between these three domains are not distinct, and the interconnectivity and complexities occurring in and between them contribute to the production of much of the ‘wickedness’ that exists in social work practice. Social workers may gain from this knowledge in order to unravel the often intangible complexity that commonly appears in social work with families.
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- Lindqvist, Rafael, 1948-, et al.
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Sociologi och socialt arbete
- 2016. - 3:e utgåvan
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In: Socialt arbete. En grundbok.. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9789127141490 ; , s. 180-197, s. 180-197
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- Moen, Elisabeth, 1956-, et al.
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Volatile and violent relationships among women sentenced for homicide in Sweden between 1986 and 2005
- 2016
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In: Victims & Offenders. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1556-4886 .- 1556-4991. ; 11:3, s. 373-391
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- Data from Swedish court judgments of all 124 women convicted of homicide during 20 years was analyzed. The typical pattern was an abused woman who kills her intimate partner at home with a knife, often with alcohol involved. A subsample (n = 66) was analyzed qualitatively, with a focus on intimate partner relationships. The findings indicate that female homicides usually take place after a long progression of violence and reflect women’s subordinate gendered position. Situational triggers finally lead up to the killing event. Gender equality and the so-called woman-friendly welfare state in Sweden do not appear to reduce women’s volatility in violent relationships.
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Birth weight, domestic violence, coping, social support and mental health of young Iranian mothers in Tehran
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In: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. - : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. - 0022-3018 .- 1539-736X. ; 201:7, s. 602-608
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- The aim of this study was to investigate associations of birth weight with sociodemographic variables, domestic violence, ways of coping, social support, and general mental health of Iranian mothers. Six hundred mothers aged 15 to 29 years participated between June 2009 and November 2010. t-Test, analysis of variance, Spearman's correlation, and multiple regression were used. The results showed that there was no significant association between birth weight and general mental health of the mothers. Prenatal care visits, the mothers' history of having children with low birth weight (LBW), and weight gain during pregnancy were significantly associated with birth weight. The women who reported physical abuse during pregnancy had infants with lower birth weight. Satisfaction with social support and use of positive reappraisal were significantly associated with higher birth weight. In conclusion, a high quality of prenatal care and screening of pregnant women are recommended. Social environments good enough during pregnancy have protective effects against LBW.
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Diskontinuitet i sociala barnavårdsprocesser : från risktecken till vuxenliv
- 2020
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In: Socionomens forskningssupplement. - : Akademikerförbundet SSR. - 0283-1929. ; :48, s. 18-29
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- Artikeln beskriver och analyserar förekomst och erfarenheter av diskontinuitet för unga vuxna under deras väg som föremål för samhällets insatser. Underlaget består av detaljerade studier av akt- och journaldata, kombinerat med livshistoriska intervjuer med ett tjugotal unga vuxna med erfarenheter av placering i samhällsvård. Studien visar att diskontinuiteter förekommer i olika faser i samhällets insatser: i tiden mellan första dokumentation av risktecken och de första åtgärderna från socialtjänsten; i de besluts- och insatsprocesser som sker i tidsspannet mellan första åtgärd och den tidpunkt då den unge lämnar samhällsvården; samt, i övergången mellan samhällsvårdens avslutning och den unges självständiga vuxenliv. Diskontinuitet kan vara kontextuellt och individuellt betingad och kopplad till administrativ hantering, relationer, informationsflöden eller vara erfaren eller associerad med problematikens allvarlighetsgrad. I många fall kan diskontinuitetsproblem ge negativa erfarenheter för unga i samhällsvård.
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