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- Franséhn, Mona, 1950, et al.
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Vårdcentraler behöver ökade psykresurser
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Ingår i: Debattartikel i Göteborgs-Posten (GP) den 30 maj 2011.
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- Johansson, Helena, 1962, et al.
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Outsourcing the core of social work? Consequences of the organisational development within social services in Sweden
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Ingår i: ENSACT, Istanbul, 17-19/4 2013.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sweden has a long tradition of using laymen as supportive persons within the social services. One of the most popular interventions is to support children and teenagers by using a contact family or a contact person. At present about 20 000 young persons in Sweden have this intervention and the situation has been stable during the last decade. The paper is based on an on-going study titled Society as a teenage parent . The focus is on teenagers between 13 and 20 with experience of having a contact person for a year or more. The aim is to gain knowledge on what content is included when the social services decides to indicate a contact person for a teenager. Further to investigate how this can be understood as a way of executing parental responsibilities where the family of origin seems to fail. The project design includes focus groups with social workers, contact persons and school representatives; analysis of social work case files as well as interviews with the young person, the contact person, the parent(s) and the social worker. The study has been conducted in three different municipalities in the western region of Sweden during the last two years and is still in progress. A result of the study so far is that social workers seem to be more of an outsourcing consultant, dealing with different bureaucratic matters in order to fulfil their responsibility in relation to society. The contact person intervention has both the character of a voluntary intervention, accomplished by laymen, and a professional or semi-professional intervention where different professionals get involved. In both cases the social workers are the organisers while the contact persons work in direct contact with the teenagers, the kind of work we normally connect to the “core of social work”. The paper and presentation will deal with the questions: In which way will this change have an impact on the future development of social work profession? What are the advantages and disadvantages? What are the alternatives?
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- Johansson, Helena, 1962, et al.
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Swedish contact persons for youths at risk – reasons and patterns in social documentation
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Ingår i: European Conference on Social Work Research.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the most popular interventions within the social services in Sweden is to support children and teenagers by using a contact person. Using voluntary persons in social work has a long tradition in the country and mostly these voluntary persons are ‘ordinary’ people interested in giving other people support if needed. A contact person can be seen as a way of building bridges between the civil society and the professional social work. This intervention is very popular and about 20 0000 children/young people between 1-18 years are yearly registered for this support (contact person or contact family) and the figures have been quite stable during the last decade. Despite the popularity there is a lack of knowledge and evaluation concerning how it works and which functions and con- tent the social workers try to achieve by using a contact person or a contact family. The presentation is based on an on-going research project with focus on teenagers between 13 and 20 with experience of having a contact person for a year or more. The project with the title Society as teenage parent – about contact persons within the social services is financed by FAS (the Swedish Council for Working life and Social research). The aim of the study is to obtain new knowledge about the way the social services use and create the content and the character of this intervention. The design is based on a Helena Johansson and Mona Franséhn. Swedish contact persons for youths at risk – reasons and patterns in social documentation (Fri- day 13.30 h) 58 ECSWR 2012, Basel model including focus groups (with social workers, contact persons, school representatives), docu- ment studies and case studies. The study is carried out in three different municipalities in the west- ern region of Sweden. In the presentation the document study will be focused. Social documentation concerning 36 young persons (age 8 to 19) have been collected and analysed. We will present and discuss key characteristics of the young persons and their families, what patterns can be identified when it comes to of motives for the intervention and of problem descriptions as well as underlying assumptions of gender class and family.
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