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dc.contributor.authorLindwall, Johan
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-13T07:58:03Z
dc.date.available2020-10-13T07:58:03Z
dc.date.issued2020-10-13
dc.identifier.isbn978-91-88267-16-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2077/66585
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT Title: Dilemmas of the imperative for action – On freedom and control in social services’ work with clients who use illicit drugs Author: Johan Lindwall Keywords: social service, substance use, discourse, discourse psychology, institutional talk, institutional identities, street-level bureaucracy, legitimacy work, power, subjectification ISBN: 978-91-88267-15-3 ISSN: 1401-5781 http://hdl.handle.net/2077/66585 This thesis studies social services’ work with clients who use illicit drugs. The aim is to contribute to knowledge about how social services’ imperative for action – to actively promote change for clients who use illicit drugs – is shaped in practice and balanced against the principle of autonomy. The aim is also to discuss the conditions and implications of social workers’ practice, and to show how power is expressed. The material was collected through observations, reflective discussions with staff, interviews and focus groups at three social service offices. Viewing social workers as street-level bureaucrats, the study draws on discourse psychology in dialogue with Foucauldian concepts of power. The analysis shows that social workers’ conditions are contradictory and dilemmatic. Individualistic ideals and clients’ freedom are highly valued but collide with strategies that can be perceived as authoritarian, when clients are seen as incapable to act in their own good. To handle contradictions, social workers perform substantial legitimacy work. The analysis demonstrates that social workers, when pursuing and justifying their job, engage in a considerable rhetorical and interactional work. When acting to promote change in clients’ drug use, social workers normally avoid acting against clients’ intention, and rather pursue a strategy that aligns with clients’ freedom of choice and aims to shape clients’ will to change. In this way, power is made invisible. Finally, the analysis reveals that social workers shape their approaches and strategies towards clients on the basis of how they view clients’ drug use with regards to risks, how they perceive clients’ morals, and how they assess the expected return-on-investment of the work, rather than on the basis of clients’ drug use as such. As a consequence, many clients need to take full responsibility for ensuring that they get the help they might need.sv
dc.language.isoswesv
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSkriftserie för avhandlingar, Institutionen för socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitetsv
dc.relation.ispartofseries2020:2sv
dc.subjectsocial servicesv
dc.subjectsubstance usesv
dc.subjectdiscoursesv
dc.subjectdiscourse psychologysv
dc.subjectinstitutional talksv
dc.subjectinstitutional identitiessv
dc.subjectstreet-level bureaucracysv
dc.subjectlegitimacy worksv
dc.subjectpowersv
dc.subjectsubjectificationsv
dc.titleHandlingsimperativets dilemman – Om frihet och kontroll i socialtjänstens arbete med klienter som använder narkotikasv
dc.typeText
dc.type.svepDoctoral thesis
dc.gup.mailjohan.lindwall@socwork.gu.sesv
dc.gup.maillindwall.johan@gmail.comsv
dc.type.degreeDoctor of Philosophysv
dc.gup.originGöteborgs universitet. Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetenswe
dc.gup.originUniversity of Gothenburg. Faculty of Social Scienceseng
dc.gup.departmentDepartment of Social Work ; Institutionen för socialt arbetesv
dc.gup.defenceplaceFredagen den 6 november 2020, kl 09.15, Hörsal Sappören, Sprängkullsgatan 25, Göteborgsv
dc.gup.defencedate2020-11-06
dc.gup.dissdb-fakultetSF


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