SAM - Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy

Extended care: Global dialogue on policy, practice and research

Storø, Jan; Van Breda, Adrian; Incarnato, Mariana; Stohler, Renate; Gilligan, Robbie; Munro, Emily R.; Refaeli, Tehila; Roxana, Anghel; Harder, Annemik; Mann-Feder, Varda (Elsevier, 2020-10-13)

Young people who are taken up into the care system (including foster, formal kinship and residential or group care) traditionally have to leave care at age 18, the generally accepted age of adulthood. Research globally has ...

Forensic interviews with preschool children: An analysis of extended interviews in Norway (2015-2017)

Baugerud, Gunn Astrid; Hansen, Helle Birgitte; Magnussen, Svein; Lamb, Michael E.; Johnson, Miriam S. (Wiley, 2020-02-26)

This study examined the quality of forensic interviews conducted by specially trained police officers in the Norwegian Barnahus between 2015 and 2017, using the sequential interview (SI) model, a Norwegian version of the ...

Mental health and access to active labor market programs

Bråthen, Magne; Wel, Kjetil A. van der; Løyland, Borghild (Roskilde universitet, 2020-09-14)

This paper examines the often-overlooked precondition for successful implementation of active labor market policy, namely equal access to labor market programs. Focusing on a cohort of social assistance recipients, we ...

Marginalised groups protest against social welfare and public health: conceptualising the challenge for social workers

Aaslund, Håvard; Chear, Charles (Taylor & Francis, 2020-09-16)

As neoliberalisation and other global disruptions change the understanding of human rights and social justice for social workers, how are protests organised by marginalised groups against social welfare and public health ...

Associations between change in labour market policies and work stressors: a comparative longitudinal survey data analysis from 27 European countries

Lunau, Thorsten; Wahrendorf, Morten; Dragano, Nico; Siegrist, Johannes; Wel, Kjetil A. van der; Rigó, Mariann (BMC, 2020-09-10)

Background: Many studies have shown that work stressors have a negative impact on health. It is therefore important to gain an understanding of how work stressors can be reduced. Recent studies have shown that employees ...

Family as text: Gendered parenthood and family display through home-school-correspondence in Norway.

Haldar, Marit; Røsvik, Kjersti (Taylor & Francis, 2020-02-10)

This article examines how different Norwegian families display family and parenthood ideals in one of the most genderequal countries in the world. Empirically, the article is based on an ethnographic material in the shape ...

Should we take their children? Caseworkers’ negotiations of ‘good enough’ care for children living with high-conflict parents

Sudland, Cecilie; Neumann, Cecilie Elisabeth Basberg (Taylor & Francis, 2020-08-21)

Few studies have explored caseworkers’ perspectives on children’s safety and emotional wellbeing in high-conﬂict families. Based on focus group and individual interviews with 31 Norwegian child protection services staﬀ, ...

Improving interprofessional collaboration in Norwegian primary schools: A cluster-randomized study evaluating effects of the LOG model on teachers’ perceptions of interprofessional collaboration

Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira; Tøge, Anne Grete (Taylor & Francis, 2020-01-13)

Increased demand for interprofessional collaboration within the educational field also increases the need for the development and evaluation of interventions to improve collaboration. In Norway, the LOG model was developed ...

Modelos teóricos de discapacidad: un seguimiento del desarrollo histórico del concepto de discapacidad en las últimas cinco décadas

Chhabra, Gagan; Pérez, Maria Esther (Centro Español de Documentación sobre Discapacidad, 2019-06-10)

El concepto de discapacidad ha sido extensamente debatido en las últimas cinco décadas, dando fruto a múltiples definiciones y a la proliferación de modelos teóricos que tratan de explicar la discapacidad. Pero a pesar de ...

‘The Long and Winding Road’ — Collective action among people experiencing homelessness

Aaslund, Håvard; Seim, Sissel (Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2020)

What possibilities exist for collective action among marginalised people? Through participatory action research (PAR), we study possibilities for collective action among people affected by homelessness and substance use. ...

Making and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’

Rasmussen, Erik Børve (SAGE Publications, 2020-07-15)

This article explores the making and management of anomaly in scientific work, taking ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS) as its case. MUS is a category used to characterize health conditions that are widely held to be ...

How congruent is person-centred practice with labour activation policy? Person-centred approach to vocational interventions on immigrant jobseekers in Norway

Khoronzhevych, Mariya; Fadyl, Joanna (Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-16)

Increased migration to OECD countries has made unemployed foreignborn immigrants a new target population for ‘activation’ policies to reintroduce people into the labour market. As populations receiving employment activation ...

Social workers use of knowledge in an evidence-based framework: a mixed methods study

Finne, Joakim; Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira; Ekeland, Tor Johan (Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-03)

Since the 1990s, evidence-based practice has become part of social work, grounded in the notion that social work should be a research-based profession. However, recent studies show that social workers struggle with bridging ...

The Right to Health Care for Irregular Migrants in Norway: Interpretation, Accessibility, and Gaps Between Needs and Rights

Haddeland, Hanna Buer (Taylor & Francis, 2020-05-13)

Based on legal interpretation, interviews with rejected asylum seekers, and decisions from hospitals and the County Governor, this article examines the degree of compliance with the human right to health care for adult ...

Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior

Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth; Johannessen, Lars E. F.; Rasmussen, Erik Børve; Rogstad, Jon Christian (Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-06)

This article explores the relationship between labor market discrimination, stereotypes and employers’ experiences with immigrant workers. Based on interviews with 58 employers, recruited as part of three randomized ﬁeld ...

Det er noe med den personlige egnetheten... Arbeidsgiveres vurderinger av uformelle kompetanser og deres betydning for ansettelser innen helse- og sosialfeltet

Natland, Sidsel; Johannessen, Asbjørn (Universitetetsforlaget, 2020-06-23)

Hvordan vurderer arbeidsgivere innen helse- og sosialfeltet søkere til stillinger? Hvilke kompetanser og ferdigheter forventer de at søkerne har? Denne studien er basert på funn fra kvalitative forskningsintervjuer med ...