What happens to the social in social work?

Hanssen, J.; Hutchinson, Gunn Strand; Lyngstad, Rolv; Sandvin, Johans Tveit

doi:10.1080/2156857x.2015.1060895

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“…In other social work studies, assemblage comes into focus more clearly. Hanssen, Hutchinson, Lyngstad, and Sandvin (), for example, draw on actor network theory to (re)think “the social” as sets of relations and connections, and Strier and Bershtling () explicitly explore the nature of assemblages where professional resistance occurs in practice. Most notably, Bozalek () argues for a new posthuman ethics of social work appropriate for the current posthuman social condition.…”

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confidence: 99%

Working social assemblages: Towards a new geography of social work

Andrews

2019

Geography Compass

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This paper explores possibilities for extending the geographical imagination in academic studies of social work. It notes how current "geographical" research is extensive and diverse-including interests in social and natural environments, practice settings, and global issues-but argues for a change whereby it is more explicitly informed by, and cast as, human geography. Part of this change would involve a transition in basic enterprise, whereby researching social work geographically shifts from being a one-way effort on the part of academic social workers, to being a two-way project also involving geographers. Another part would be

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Section: Moving Towards a Posthumanist Contributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working social assemblages: Towards a new geography of social work

Andrews

2019

Geography Compass

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“…Definitions of the fluid concept NPM include competition between providers in (tax-funded) services, strict limits for expenditure and emphasis on measurable outputs rather than results of functioning processes (Hood 1991). The model includes use of time-limited contracts, sometimes internal markets in the public administration, and an emphasis on delineated and individual responsibilities in contrast to a focus on responsibility for the common good (Hanssen et al 2015;Pollitt, van Thiel, and Homburg 2007). Users change from being citizens to becoming customers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Organizations built up around NPM ideals may thereby lead to conflicts with core values of social work, as defined by the IFSW (International federation of social workers 2014): social justice, human rights, empowerment, social cohesion, respect for diversities, and collective responsibility for welfare (Hanssen et al 2015;Spolander, Engelbrecht, and Pullen Sansfaçon 2016). From public health and SUT point of view, the crucial questions are whether marketization enables a treatment system that is economic in its use of public money, is of high quality, defined as accessible, coordinated, with continuity, and thus can properly meet the needs of a diversified clientele (Babor, Stenius, and Romelsjö 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Competition within the municipality or between providers may conflict with the need for multi-agency and multi-professional cooperation to solve complex problems and continuity in services (Nesvåg and Lie 2010). Furthermore, political values stressing individualism and personal responsibility instead of social rights and collective needs, can be a challenge for public health or welfare perspectives (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2002;Hanssen et al 2015).…”

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“…Since the 1990s, SUT in many Swedish municipalities has increasingly been steered through local public procurement, often within local purchaser-provider-models in the municipal organization and today with a large share of contracted private for-profit providers (Storbjörk and Stenius 2019a). Other features of NPM, often linked to output control in the NPM spirit, are the introduction of registration of interventions, evidence-based practices (EBP), standardization of services and procedures, and various national or local guidelines for treatment and documentation (Eriksson and Janlöv 2020;Hanssen et al 2015;Hjärpe 2017;Lauri 2016). Many of these have been reinforced by national policies and bodies with the duty to control local performances.…”

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When the organization is a problem: an empirical study of social work with substance use problems in more or less NPM-influenced Swedish municipalities

Stenius

Storbjörk

2021

Nordic Social Work Research

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New Public Management (NPM) has added new aspects to the conflict between political-bureaucratic steering and professional autonomy in the search for a substance use treatment system (SUT) that is economic and characterized by high quality, accessibility, and professional discretion. This article analyses if and how organizational aspects of NPM imply additional challenges for professionals and SUT. The experiences of 29 social workers, in different positions in the services and administration of SUT, in six municipalities with different degrees of NPM and post-NPM, form the empirical data. Many quality problems were common across municipalities: frequent unevaluated reforms, lack of resources for SUT, and cooperation issues. Several problems were especially pronounced in statutory social work. NPM added challenges. Competition with private providers was viewed as initially (in the 1990s) having improved treatment, but the present market was regarded as creating quality problems without savings. Cooperation between providers was a special quality challenge in NPM municipalities, and NPM added to treatment continuity challenges. While accessibility for resourceful clients was linked to NPM models, treatment for less resourced users was obstructed by NPM. Workplace climate and trust issues were more problematic in the most NPM-permeated municipalities. Professional discretion was difficult to link to local NPM degree. Increased standardization and documentation were often accepted as improving quality. While a system based on competition ideology appeared destructive for treatment quality, post-NPM reforms with cooperation between needs-assessment, treatment, and economic support, conformed better with professionals' perceptions of good treatment.

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Enabling and Preserving Situational Social Work in Barnahus: A Vulnerable Jurisdiction Caught in the Crossfire Between Juridification and Psychologisation

Andersen

2024

Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology

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This chapter examines the situational social work practice of “interstitial work” that is observable within the Norwegian Barnahus model. Interstitial work provides children and families with interventions that are customised to their particular situations and needs. This chapter examines which structural conditions have enabled this practice to emerge, what factors could threaten the practice’s future existence, and how the practice may be sustained over time. Based on interview data with ten Barnahus staff members and a leader, this chapter notes that a high degree of professional autonomy through an absence of detailed regulation may be crucial in the formative years of situational practices. Once a situational practice is established, however, increased but not overly detailed regulation seems necessary for the practice’s preservation over time.

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What happens to the social in social work?

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Working social assemblages: Towards a new geography of social work

Working social assemblages: Towards a new geography of social work

When the organization is a problem: an empirical study of social work with substance use problems in more or less NPM-influenced Swedish municipalities

Enabling and Preserving Situational Social Work in Barnahus: A Vulnerable Jurisdiction Caught in the Crossfire Between Juridification and Psychologisation

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