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- Nygren, Lennart, 1953-, et al.
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Families in transition : social workers’ understanding of 'family' in child welfare work - an international research approach
- 2016
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Ingår i: Global social transformation and social action. - : Routledge. - 9781317127277 - 9781472417954 ; , s. 123-128
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The postmodern family pattern discourse is about individualisation and care. Through globalisation, the closed family system is being dissolved, and a plurality of cohabitation alternatives is emerging. On a global level, transnational families are keeping proximity through cross-border networking. Patterns of traditional patriarchy are challenged through institutionalised individualisation and gender discourse. Care of children and care of the elderly become an institutionalised responsibility.
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- Oltedal, Siv, et al.
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Editorial: Families in context
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Comparative Social Work. - : Universitetet i Stavanger. - 0809-9936. ; :2, s. 1-4
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Oltedal, Siv, et al.
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Local family definitions matter
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Comparative Social Work. - 0809-9936. ; 10:1, s. 1-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Oltedal, Siv, et al.
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Private and public families : Social workers’ views on children’s and parents’ position in Chile, England, Lithuania and Norway
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Comparative Social Work. - : Universitetet i Stavanger. - 0809-9936. ; 14:1, s. 115-140
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social workers around the world work with families and family complexities in their everyday practice. In this cross-national study, we explore social workers’ family intervention practices related to family definitions and functions, and how social workers balance children’s and parents’ rights and social policies in the proper context. Data derives from focus group interviews with child welfare workers from Norway, Lithuania, Chile and England based on discussions of a common fictitious complex family case (vignette). The four countries chosen for this comparative study are examples of four different welfare systems/regimes. The findings related to this broad area of caring topics are related to how the dimensions of a ‘private’ and a ‘public’ family manifest in social work in the four countries. Social workers in Chile and Lithuania refer to the idea of the private family, while their Norwegian counterparts lean more to the public family. English social workers combine public and private family conceptions in their focus groups, reflecting a system that is partly de-familialized.
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- Oltedal, Siv, et al.
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The use of vignettes in an international comparative social work research : In-practice and on-practice reflections on practices
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Comparative Social Work. - : Stavanger University Library. - 0809-9936. ; 18:2, s. 236-248
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this article is to reflect on the strengths and challenges in qualitative comparative research on personal social services. The specific methodological approach that these reflections emerge from is the application of case vignettes in focus group interviews with social workers, working in different welfare regimes.We describe the process of vignette construction and implementation in focus group interviews, and relate this to findings in a large international project with researchers and data from Chile, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Ireland and the UK.Findings reveal that some globally spread professional norms prevail when they are applied locally, while others are more formed through welfare systems with strong contextual norms and legal and socio-economic barriers. Furthermore, the project showed that to use case vignettes and focus groups, in order to compare ‘social work’ in its totality between countries, is really difficult. It appears more fruitful to use such research methods to compare subsectors and sub-disciplines instead of social work as a whole. The strength of the data retrieved from the study is that it makes it possible to separate information on actual practice from information on principles and system norms, thus providing in-practice and on-practice reflections.
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