"The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities. The book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be identified as influencing professional practices to promote personalisation, participation, empowerment, recovery and resilience. In examining the concept of ‘responsibilisation ..."
"The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities. The book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be identified as influencing professional practices to promote personalisation, participation, empowerment, recovery and resilience. In examining the concept of ‘responsibilisation ..."
"With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue, illuminating some of the profession s key dilemmas. Applied discourse studies illustrate the importance of talk and interaction in the construction of everyday and institutional life. This book provides a detailed review and illustration of the contribution of discourse approaches and stu ..."
"With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue, illuminating some of the profession’s key dilemmas. Applied discourse studies illustrate the importance of talk and interaction in the construction of everyday and institutional life. This book provides a detailed review and illustration of the contribution of discourse approaches and stu ..."
"This innovative book explores social work, therapy and counselling as a series of encounters - between clients and human services professionals, social workers, their colleagues and other professionals, and more widely between citizens and the state. Providing a variety of social constructionist perspectives on the idea of the 'client', it presents in-depth discussion of the roles, language and contexts of meetings between social worker ..."
"Contents List of contributors vii Acknowledgements viii 1 Introduction 1 KIRSI
JUHILA, SUVI RAITAKARI AND CHRISTOPHER HALL PART I Conceptual and
methodological premises 9 2 Responsibilisation in governmentality literature 11
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"of a CPA meeting. As with the analysis of the previous meeting, it is the
categorisation of the client that is disputed, only here the disagreement is
between the workers (Seing et al. 2012). The categorisation of the client
proposed by the social ..."
"Discourse in Practice Christopher Hall, Kirsi Juhila, Maureen Matarese, Carolus
van Nijnatten ... 4 Accountability Maureen Matareseand Dorte Caswell 5
Boundary work Stef Slembrouck and Christopher Hall 6 Narrative Christopher
Halland Maureen ... Maureen Matarese and Carolus Van Nijnatten Appendix:
transcription symbols References Author index Subject index Contributors The
contributors to this."
"Other studies have analysed how institutional services become available, and
how entitle— ments and obligations in providing and receiving services are
negotiated among professionals and their clients in public employment offices (
Makitalo 2003), in social welfare agencies (Linell and Fredin 1995; Hydén 1996)
and in elderly care (Olaison and Cedersund 2006; Olaison 2010). Other studies
have focused on the construction of clienthood ..."
"Nigel. Parton. The client in social work The client is at the core of social work. The
debate on social work, whether focusing on the profession, ethics, politics and
ideology or research, inevitably takes a stand on what is called the client-citizen.
This client-citizen is considered if not the only, then at least an essential target of
and motive for, social work. The same applies to other human service professions
. Their basis l ..."
"First published in 1999, Jokinen , Juhila and Poso comprises both theoretical/reflexive articles and articles based on empirical social constructionist studies. It provokes new ways of looking at social work practices as interpretative and interactive processes. In addition to this theoretical and methodological contribution, the volume provides empirically based material on the practical implications of an alliance between social work ..."
"This innovative book explores social work as a series of encounters - between clients and social workers, their colleagues and other professionals, and more widely between citizens and the state. Providing a variety of social constructionist perspectives on the idea of the 'client', it presents in-depth discussion of the roles, language and contexts of meetings between social workers and their clients."
"There have been a lot of debates about social consructionism within the social sciences but there are not many books on the subject within the field of social work. This work is intended to fill that gap. It brings together those experts of social constructionist approaches who share a common interest in everyday practices of social work and in qualitative methods for analyzing those practices. The book comprises both theoretical/reflex ..."