Bringing the Family Back in: On Role Assignment and Clientification in the Swedish Social Services

Bringing the Family Back in : On Role Assignment and Clientification in the Swedish Social Services

Gümüscü, Ahmet, 1981- (author): Umeå universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete

Nygren, Lennart, 1953- (author): Umeå universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete

Khoo, Evelyn, 1964- (author): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Umeå universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete,Department of Social Work

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Abstract Subject headings

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.

By the author/editor: Gümüscü, Ahmet, ...; Nygren, Lennart, ...; Khoo, Evelyn, 19 ...

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