SAM - Institutt for sosialfag
Recent Submissions
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Kritikken av barnevernet: Kan vi forvente en endring av praksis?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Barnevernet har en avgjørende rolle i en velferdsstat som skal sørge for at barn og familier er inkludert i samfunnet på en god måte. Samtidig utsettes tjenesten for markant kritikk fra mange hold. For eksempel rapporterer ... -
The practice of zero tolerance: emergency placement by child welfare services in Norway
(Critical and Radical Social Work;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The present article discusses emergency placement of children by the Norwegian Child Welfare Services. We have interviewed nine mothers about their experiences with transfer of care of their children. Several of the mothers ... -
Preliminary validity testing of the eHealth Literacy Questionnaire (eHLQ): A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in Norwegian hospitalized patients
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Aims To perform the first psychometric analysis of the Norwegian version of the eHLQ using confirmative factor analysis (CFA) procedures in a population of patients admitted to hospital using a cross-sectional design. The ... -
Schooling-at-Home and Extra Child-Caring Responsibilities were Associated with Parental Mental Health, Psychosocial Well-Being, and Loneliness
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Norwegian labour activation: Building or limiting social citizenship for service users far from the labour market?
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)This chapter takes a close look at activation policy to explore the extent to which it supports or limits social citizenship for service users far from the labour market. In Norway, as in other European countries, employment ... -
How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Rising inflation in the Nordic societies has changed the living standards for many families. The situation differs not only between the four Nordic countries analysed, but even within each of the Nordic countries. The needs ... -
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This mixed-methods systematic review asks what is known about children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents when in out-of- home care. To address this question 37 studies were coded to identify children’s ... -
Roma Migration and the Cumulative Causation of Diverging Policy Responses in Scandinavia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Since 2007, Scandinavia has emerged as a new destination for Romanian Roma engaging in circular migration for begging and street work. Using policy documents from parliamentary debates in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, ... -
Child protection investigations of child custody cases in Norway: caseworkers’ obstacles and coping strategies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In Norway, Child Protection Services (CPS) is responsible for investigating concerns about children at risk of being harmed by their parents’ conflicts. This study focuses on caseworkers’ experiences of investigating ... -
Restricting Family Life An Examination of Citizens’ Views on state interventions and Parental Freedom in Eight European Countries.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper examines the public views – a total of 10,348 persons – on restrictions of personal autonomy of others to protect the interest of children. We use representative country samples of the adult populations of ... -
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Hospital social workers advocate, facilitate and communicate with patients, families, healthcare professionals, and communities. These activities, in which hospital social workers relate to different parties and aim to ... -
The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Telepresence robots are increasingly used in schools as a way of including students who are unable to be physically present in the classroom with other students. The use of such robots is intended not just to help students ... -
Trans reproduction: Continuity, cis-normativity, and trans inequality in law
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In recent years, increasing numbers of jurisdictions are abolishing sterilization requirements for legal gender recognition and are introducing self-declared change of legal gender. The aboli- tion of this requirement ... -
Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article advances domestication theory by developing the concept of multi-site domestication. Whereas domestication theory traditionally focuses on the ‘taming’ of technologies at a single site (most often, the ... -
Fatigue in patients with syndromic heritable thoracic aortic disease: a systematic review of the literature and a qualitative study of patients' experiences and perceptions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction The purpose of this study was to explore the literature on fatigue in patients with syndromic herit‑ able thoracic aortic disease (sHTAD), including Marfan syndrome (MFS), Loeys‑Dietz syndrome (LDS), vascular ... -
Work participation in adults with rare genetic diseases - a scoping review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Work participation is a crucial aspect of health outcome and an important part of life for most people with rare genetic diseases. Despite that work participation is a social determinant of health and seems ... -
Evidensbasert praksis - et veiskille i sosialt arbeid
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Blant forskere og praktikere har det de siste tiårene vært et økende søkelys på evidensbasert praksis (EBP) i sosialt arbeid. EBP vært gjenstand for omfattende kritikk, blant annet har forskere og sosialarbeidere hevdet ... -
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)To study discrimination in labour/housing markets, and among street-level bureaucrats in the welfare state, present both theoretical and methodological challenges. In the sociological study of discrimination, experiments ... -
Lost in culture: Language discordance and culturalization in social work with migrants
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Social work carried out without a shared language, can be referred to as language discordant social work. In this article we discuss links between language discordance and culturalization in social work, based on data from ... -
Improving interprofessional collaboration in schools: A cluster-randomized study evaluating the effectiveness of the LOG model on collaboration practices
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Although interprofessional collaboration is emphasized as important in schools, little is known about how it should be organized. We analyzed the effects of an organizational model of interprofessional collaboration, the ...