Planning individually? Spotting international welfare trends in the field of rehabilitation in Norway

Abstract

International welfare trends are sweeping across the western world and have gained a lot of attention from researchers. However, few contributions have demonstrated the practical effects of these trends. This article will illustrate this using the individual plan as a case showing that some unintended forms of use can be regarded as traces of international welfare policy trends, and are not in line with the original ideologically based intentions.

Keywords:

• individual plan
• rehabilitation
• personalization
• contractualism

Notes

1. Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. Established 1 July 2006.

2. Psychiatric outpatient clinic for adults.

3. A letter of information with a request for informed consent was sent to the informants ahead of time.