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Attitudes towards harm reduction amongst social work professionals in three geographical areas in Sweden
Julie Holeksa & Torkel Richert
Published online: 27 May 2024
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Children’s rights organizations in Sweden and their relation to public child welfare
Hedvig Nylén
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Professionals’ account-making of institutional care for youths. Intertwined discretionary spaces and blurred collaborative practice
Lina Ponnert & Susanna Johansson
Published online: 21 Apr 2024
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Community work at the urban periphery: searching for legitimacy
Zhanna Kravchenko & Ellen Håkansson
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Swedish school counsellors − demographics, professional practices, educational background and working life history
Marek Perlinski, Per Jansson & Lars Evertsson
Published online: 03 Apr 2024
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Juggling conflicting demands when using a new intervention to combat child physical abuse in the Swedish child welfare services
Johanna Thulin, Åsa Landberg & Mikael Skillmark
Published online: 29 Mar 2024
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When social workers impact policy and don’t just implement it. A framework for understanding policy engagement
edited by John Gal and Idit Weiss-Gal, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2022, 27.99£ (paperback), ISBN 9781447364764
Sanni Salonen
Published online: 22 Mar 2024
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Clients’ first names in social work encounters: maintaining and mitigating asymmetry in institutional interaction
Sabine Ellung Jørgensen & Tanja Dall
Published online: 21 Mar 2024
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Traumatic experiences and mental health status for female ethnic minority adolescents and young adults on the run from their families due to negative social control
Ditte Bech-Hansen, Sarah B. Dokkedahl, Inge Loua, Didde Hauch & Ask Elklit
Published online: 16 Mar 2024
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Through the lens of learning organization theory: strategies used when introducing new work methods as described by practitioners and leaders in social services
Håkan Uvhagen, Anna Gärdegård & Charlotte Klinga
Published online: 16 Mar 2024
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Producing knowledge through reflection - the case of individual-based systematic follow-up in social services
Petra Höglund
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Children who disclose physical abuse. A retrospective cross-sectional study of Swedish social workers’ assessments of risk, need, and decisions on service
Kerstin Tingberg, Evelyn Khoo & Tina M. Olsson
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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A collaborative process: child participation in interventions provided by Swedish child and family welfare services
Annica Markström, Catrine Andersson, Annelie Björkhagen Turesson & Lars Plantin
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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Enactments of evidence-based programs in social work – the gap between ideal and practice in the context of Norway
Christian Li Kristensen & Maria Appel Nissen
Published online: 16 Feb 2024
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Moving out to live independently? experiences from young women with intellectual disabilities in Norway
Anne Linn Midttun, Anita Gjermestad & Inger Marie Lid
Published online: 15 Feb 2024
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Reducing the need for child welfare interventions through additional income support: a qualitative analysis of Finnish social workers’ views
Teemu Rantanen, Tarja Juvonen & Kari Eklund
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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Child welfare practitioners’ perspectives on factors that promote, and hinder family reunification after out-of-home placement in Norway: a micro-meso systems analysis
Dilys Sharona Quartey
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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Caught in the crossfire abused mothers’ struggles to navigate the Swedish domestic violence shelter system
Sandra Andersson
Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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The conflicting temporalities of immigrant integration in the Nordic welfare state of Finland
Tiina Sotkasiira & Lotta Haikkola
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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From compassion to action: school social workers at the forefront of emergency response
Michael Wallengren-Lynch
Published online: 25 Jan 2024
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The construction of a narrative space for children in an institutional interview interaction
Heta Kemppainen & Tanja Kamotskin
Published online: 20 Jan 2024
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Propositions and alignment as constructs of cooperation in multiprofessional–client meeting interactions
Tuuli Kalari
Published online: 20 Jan 2024
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Relational discretion in social work with persons with disabilities. Intersecting relations between legal, professional and organizational discourses
Mari Kivistö & Jari Lindh
Published online: 05 Jan 2024
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Children’s experiences of collaborative relationship with child welfare and protection professionals in Norway: a state-of-the-art review
Ieva Salkauskiene, Samita Wilson, May Gresdahl & Randi Juul
Published online: 28 Dec 2023
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Foster carers’ views of the transition from foster care to adulthood for young people with mental health problems from a life-course perspective
Ingrid Höjer & Inger Oterholm
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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Providing support for family carers: social workers describing their professional role
Åsa Alftberg
Published online: 23 Dec 2023
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Swedish social workers’ support to female survivors breaking free from male intimate partner violence
Josefin Kjellberg
Published online: 23 Dec 2023
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Women’s shelters and private shelters discursive struggle: separatism, security and social change
Marcus Lauri, Johanna Lauri & Ida Linander
Published online: 21 Dec 2023
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Consequences of COVID-19 for victims of domestic violence in calls to the Finnish national Nollalinja helpline
J. Hietamäki, E. Hyväri, O. Kekkonen & E. Niklander
Published online: 17 Dec 2023
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Ticking the boxes: fathers’ performativity, change and intimate partner violence
Rannveig Ágústa Guðjónsdóttir & Nicky Stanley
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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Standardized knowledge, the IBIC and knowledge-based social services
Gunnel Andersson & Kristina Engwall
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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Challenges for researchers when getting access to children and young people and their consent in research. A scoping review
Hervor Alma Arnadottir, Guðrún Kristinsdottir, Sissel Seim & Svein Vis
Published online: 04 Dec 2023
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If digitalization is the answer – what is the problem? An analysis of policy documents related to the digitalization of Norwegian child welfare services
Minela Kvakic, Heidi Aarum Hansen & Mona Jerndahl Fineide
Published online: 01 Dec 2023
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Observant on Learning? Finding a Screening Tool to Support Social Workers’ Monitoring of Learning
Charlotte Bredahl Jacobsen, Cecilie Koustrup & Nina Madsen Sjö
Published online: 27 Nov 2023
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Social work practices with victims of violence among people with cognitive disabilities
Filippa Klint, Åsa Källström & Lisette Farias
Published online: 25 Nov 2023
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Managing post-separation violence: mothers’ strategies and the challenges of receiving societal protection
Martina Vikander, Anna-Karin L. Larsson & Åsa Källström
Published online: 23 Nov 2023
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Outline of a theory of stigmatization in the personal social services
Björn Blom, Camilla Carpholt & Ivy Krull
Published online: 18 Nov 2023
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Exploring the effectiveness of the coordinated individual plan in Sweden: challenges and opportunities for collaborative care
David Matscheck & Katarina Piuva
Published online: 16 Nov 2023
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Arriving at the shelter – mothers’ narratives of their children’s experiences
Sara Thunberg & Linda Arnell
Published online: 09 Nov 2023
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The Janus face of supervision – quality control or learning? A study of supervision of employees in the Norwegian Child welfare service
Torill Moe, Kjell Aage Gotvassli, Gunn Helen Wikan & Anita Skårstad Storhaug
Published online: 05 Nov 2023
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The impact of case characteristics on child welfare service investigations in Norway
Kirsten Buck Rustad, Camilla Lauritzen, Karen J. Skaale Havnen, Sturla Fossum, Øivin Christiansen & Svein Arild Vis
Published online: 05 Nov 2023
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Starting up user-focused monitoring projects: trust and conflicting expectations in user involvement practices
Hilda Näslund, Katarina Grim & Urban Markström
Published online: 30 Oct 2023
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“No one saw us, and no one did anything” – young women with a history in out-of-home care narrate management of (in)visibility and intersecting identities
Mira Aurora Marlow, Hulda Mjøll Gunnarsdottir & Ingunn Studsrød
Published online: 26 Sep 2023
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Making an (in)appropriate client: Social workers’ use of storylines in gatekeeping processes in the context of collegial case conferences
Anna Olaison, Annika Taghizadeh Larsson & Johannes H Österholm
Published online: 26 Sep 2023
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Three strategies of user participation. Interest organisation representatives’ views on how they make an impact on service development
Jan Marius Gathen, Tor Slettebø & Erik Skjeggestad
Published online: 25 Sep 2023
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Community work or neighbourhood revitalization: a study of the cooperation between school, social services, and housing companies
Johannes Lunneblad
Published online: 15 Sep 2023
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Book review

Book Review
Voluntary and Public Sector Collaboration in Scandinavia – New Approaches to Co-Production
edited by Bjarne Ibsen, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, € 106,99 (eBook), ISBN 978-3-030-72314-9, € 142,99 (Hardcover book), Prices include VAT (Finland), ISBN 978-3-030-72315-6
Niina Rantamäki
Published online: 12 Sep 2023
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Social welfare professionals’ views on addressing environmental issues in social work in Finland
Taija Nöjd, Sirpa Kannasoja, Petteri Niemi, Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö & Kati Närhi
Published online: 07 Sep 2023
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Psychosocial social work as part of interdisciplinary collaboration and care need assessment in psychiatric outpatient care
Miina Arajärvi, Kaarina Mönkkönen, Taru Kekoni & Timo Toikko
Published online: 07 Aug 2023
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Self-disclosures in online crisis counselling: levelling asymmetries while maintaining client-focus
Clara Iversen
Published online: 16 Jul 2023
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