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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 ... -
Strengths-based practice in child welfare: A systematic literature review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper examines the academic research discourse on strengths-based practice in child welfare. A gap in the literature exists concerning systematic research studies addressing strengths-based practices with families in ... -
Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools
(Oxford Review of Education;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-08)‘Homebound’ children are unable to attend school for illness-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with ‘telepresence robots’ that can enable remote participation. While promising, ... -
Students’ mental health, well-being, and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-national survey
(Healthcare;Volume 10 / Issue 6, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05-27)During the COVID-19 pandemic, much research has been devoted to assessing mental health in a variety of populations. Students in higher education appear to be particularly vulnerable to experiencing reduced mental health. ... -
A study of coordinator positionings in family group conferences
(Nordic Social Work Research;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-09)Although the coordinator is essential in mobilizing and remobilizing the social network of individual participants during the family group conference (FGC) process, we lack knowledge on the coordinators’ meaning and their ... -
Støtte fra sine egne: likemannsarbeid i funksjonshemmedes organisasjoner
(Fontene forskning;(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Å bli møtt med bakgrunn i egenbaserte erfaringer danner grunnlaget for det organiserte likemannsarbeidet i funksjonshemmedes organisasjoner. Arbeidet kommer til uttrykk i en-til-en-relasjoner, i grupper, ansikt-til-ansikt, ... -
Substance use disorder patients’ expectations on transition from treatment to post-discharge period
(Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs;Vol 37, Issue 3, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-24)Aim: There is limited knowledge about how inpatients anticipate factors that facilitate the transition between specialised inpatient treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and the postdischarge period. This study ... -
Success and failure in narrowing the disability employment gap: comparing levels and trends across Europe 2002–2014
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: International comparisons of the disability employment gap are an important driver of policy change. However, previous comparisons have used the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), ... -
Synthesizing a Talking Child Avatar to Train Interviewers Working with Maltreated Children
(Big Data and Cognitive Computing;Volume 6 / Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06-01)When responding to allegations of child sexual, physical, and psychological abuse, Child Protection Service (CPS) workers and police personnel need to elicit detailed and accurate accounts of the abuse to assist in ... -
A systematic review of Barriers to and facilitators of the use of evidence by policymakers
(BMC health services research;14(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-12-03)Background The gap between research and practice or policy is often described as a problem. To identify new barriers of and facilitators to the use of evidence by policymakers, and assess the state of research in this ... -
Systematisk frafallsforebygging i videregående skole – en evaluering med klyngerandomisert design – andre underveisrapport
(Research report, 2017-12-31)Denne andre rapporten i IKO-prosjektet beskriver implementeringserfaringer og de første effektanalysene basert på forskjellige datakilder. Disse dataene gir oss et bilde om hvordan IKO-modellen har blitt implementert, ... -
Systematisk frafallsforebygging i videregående skole – en evaluering med klyngerandomisert design – første underveisrapport
(Research report, 2016-12-31)Denne første underveisrapporten beskriver bakgrunnen for forskningsevalueringen av en modell for systematisk frafallsforebygging i videregående skole som prøves ut i fire fylkeskommuner fra høsten 2016. Rapporten gjør rede ... -
Taking Time Seriously: Biographical Circumstance and Immigrant Labor Integration Experience
(Journal of International Migration and Integration;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-18)The article offers a re-conceptualization of the labor integration process which takes temporality into account as a relevant feature that, rather than following patterned frames of reference, is actively referenced through ... -
Technology and older adults in British loneliness policy and political discourse
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: This article provides an analysis of recent loneliness policy and political discourses from the United Kingdom pertaining to older adults. Although government asserts that several groups in society are “at ... -
Temporary Employment Agencies’ Role in Work Inclusion of Immigrants and Refugees: Opportunities or a Permanent Precariat?
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-12)Temporary employment agencies act as mediators between job-seekers with immigrant backgrounds and the labour market. We ask; do the agencies promote or inhibit participation and social inclusion among immigrants on the ... -
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe
(Mobilities;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-07-11)In a context of a new transnational division of labour, temporary international labour mobility is on the rise in Europe. In particular, recent decades have seen considerably more women seeking work experience abroad. ... -
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)'Theory’ is a seminal term in sociology. Sociologists tend to ask that articles, chapters and monographs are ‘theoretical’, ‘develop theory’ or ‘make a theoretical contribution’. Yet, as demonstrated in Gabriel Abend’s ... -
Therapeutic features of the Family Group Conference model when Applied for long-term social assistance recipients
(Journal of Family Social Work;Volume 23, 2020 - Issue 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-21)The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore long-term social assistance recipients´ experiences with family group conferences (FGC). Fifteen Norwegian long-term (> 6 months) social assistance recipients whom had ... -
‘They said I wasn’t sick enough’: pain as negotiation in workfare
(Nordic Social Work Research;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-29)Women with migration experience from non-European countries living in Norway question the degree to which workfare is beneficial to their participation in working life. Welfare-workers regard ‘immigrant women’ as a ...