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Nygren, Lennart, Professor emeritusORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-1940-1811
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Nygren, L. (2023). Sociala investeringar och hållbarhet i socialtjänstens verksamhet (1ed.). In: Björn Blom; Malin Eriksson; Marie-Louise Snellman (Ed.), Socialtjänstens arbete med social hållbarhet: insatser på individ-, grupp- och samhällsnivå (pp. 105-119). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sociala investeringar och hållbarhet i socialtjänstens verksamhet
2023 (Swedish)In: Socialtjänstens arbete med social hållbarhet: insatser på individ-, grupp- och samhällsnivå / [ed] Björn Blom; Malin Eriksson; Marie-Louise Snellman, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2023, 1, p. 105-119Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2023 Edition: 1
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-218246 (URN)9789144153162 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-12-19 Created: 2023-12-19 Last updated: 2023-12-19Bibliographically approved
Oltedal, S. & Nygren, L. (2023). The use of vignettes in an international comparative social work research: In-practice and on-practice reflections on practices. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 18(2), 236-248
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The use of vignettes in an international comparative social work research: In-practice and on-practice reflections on practices
2023 (English)In: Journal of Comparative Social Work, E-ISSN 0809-9936, Vol. 18, no 2, p. 236-248Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this article is to reflect on the strengths and challenges in qualitative comparative research on personal social services. The specific methodological approach that these reflections emerge from is the application of case vignettes in focus group interviews with social workers, working in different welfare regimes.

We describe the process of vignette construction and implementation in focus group interviews, and relate this to findings in a large international project with researchers and data from Chile, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Ireland and the UK.

Findings reveal that some globally spread professional norms prevail when they are applied locally, while others are more formed through welfare systems with strong contextual norms and legal and socio-economic barriers. Furthermore, the project showed that to use case vignettes and focus groups, in order to compare ‘social work’ in its totality between countries, is really difficult. It appears more fruitful to use such research methods to compare subsectors and sub-disciplines instead of social work as a whole. The strength of the data retrieved from the study is that it makes it possible to separate information on actual practice from information on principles and system norms, thus providing in-practice and on-practice reflections.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stavanger University Library, 2023
Keywords
comparative, social work, vignette, focus group, qualitative methods, reflection on practices
National Category
Social Work
Research subject
Clinical Immunology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-220360 (URN)10.31265/jcsw.v18i2.548 (DOI)2-s2.0-85184214484 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-02-01 Created: 2024-02-01 Last updated: 2024-02-19Bibliographically approved
Nygren, L., Christie, A., Muñoz Guzmán, C. & Naujaniené, R. (2023). Welfare regimes and social workers' conceptions of social problems and professional roles: a comparative study of Chile, Ireland, Lithuania and Sweden. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 18(2), 207-235
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Welfare regimes and social workers' conceptions of social problems and professional roles: a comparative study of Chile, Ireland, Lithuania and Sweden
2023 (English)In: Journal of Comparative Social Work, E-ISSN 0809-9936, Vol. 18, no 2, p. 207-235Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article compares social work in countries representing four different welfare regimes: Chile, the Republic of Ireland (refer to elsewhere as ‘Ireland’), Lithuania and Sweden. The aim is to examine how social workers in different contexts refer to families’ complex needs, how contextual factors influence social workers’ positions and actions, and how they make sense of their work. Social workers in 15 focus groups, 4 per country except for Chile with 3, were interviewed about their conceptions of ‘family’, ‘families with complex needs’, and reasoning about interventions in relation to a fictitious complex case vignette. The understanding of complex needs appears relatively individualized in Chile and Lithuania, while contextual factors were more pronounced in the Irish and Swedish material. Chile, exemplifying a familialized family policy regime, reflects a poverty-compensatory social worker role that also supports familial reproduction; Ireland, a partly de-familialized regime, reflects a supportive and risk-reactive role; Lithuania, a re-familialized regime reflects a patriarchal risk-reducing role and Sweden, a de-familialized policy regime, reflects a rights-oriented and technocratic role. Welfare regimes shape different social work practice contexts. However, to some extent, social workers around the world share a common work ethos in how they, for the best interest of the people they work with, deal with the cross-pressure from social problems and political-ideological priorities.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stavanger University Library, 2023
Keywords
welfare systems, family, social work, vignette study, complex needs
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-220356 (URN)10.31265/jcsw.v18i2.547 (DOI)2-s2.0-85184480719 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-02-01 Created: 2024-02-01 Last updated: 2024-02-19Bibliographically approved
Blom, B. & Nygren, L. (2021). Analys av korta narrativ (2ed.). In: Petra Ahnlund, Lennart Sauer (Ed.), Att forska i socialt arbete: utmaningar, förhållningssätt och metoder (pp. 165-197). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Analys av korta narrativ
2021 (Swedish)In: Att forska i socialt arbete: utmaningar, förhållningssätt och metoder / [ed] Petra Ahnlund, Lennart Sauer, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021, 2, p. 165-197Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021 Edition: 2
Keywords
Ricouer, Narrativ analys, Korta narrativ, Mening, Skrivna berättelser
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184365 (URN)9789144131603 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-06-12 Created: 2021-06-12 Last updated: 2021-07-13Bibliographically approved
Nygren, L. (2021). Kontroversteman i kunskapsbildningen i socialt arbete i Sverige (1ed.). In: Hans Swärd, Per Gunnar Edebalk (Ed.), Socionomutbildningen: då nu och i framtiden (pp. 341-377). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kontroversteman i kunskapsbildningen i socialt arbete i Sverige
2021 (Swedish)In: Socionomutbildningen: då nu och i framtiden / [ed] Hans Swärd, Per Gunnar Edebalk, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021, 1, p. 341-377Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021 Edition: 1
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-186706 (URN)9789144153070 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-08-18 Created: 2021-08-18 Last updated: 2021-09-20Bibliographically approved
Nygren, L. (2021). Vad kännetecknar forskning i socialt arbete? (2ed.). In: Petra Ahnlund, Lennart Sauer (Ed.), Att forska i socialt arbete: utmaningar, förhållningssätt och metoder (pp. 15-29). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Vad kännetecknar forskning i socialt arbete?
2021 (Swedish)In: Att forska i socialt arbete: utmaningar, förhållningssätt och metoder / [ed] Petra Ahnlund, Lennart Sauer, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021, 2, p. 15-29Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021 Edition: 2
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184752 (URN)9789144131603 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-06-18 Created: 2021-06-18 Last updated: 2021-07-13Bibliographically approved
Nygren, L., Eriksson, M., Edvall Malm, D. & Hamreby, K. (2020). Diskontinuitet i sociala barnavårdsprocesser: från risktecken till vuxenliv. Socionomens forskningssupplement (48), 18-29
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Diskontinuitet i sociala barnavårdsprocesser: från risktecken till vuxenliv
2020 (Swedish)In: Socionomens forskningssupplement, ISSN 0283-1929, no 48, p. 18-29Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Artikeln beskriver och analyserar förekomst och erfarenheter av diskontinuitet för unga vuxna under deras väg som föremål för samhällets insatser. Underlaget består av detaljerade studier av akt- och journaldata, kombinerat med livshistoriska intervjuer med ett tjugotal unga vuxna med erfarenheter av placering i samhällsvård. Studien visar att diskontinuiteter förekommer i olika faser i samhällets insatser: i tiden mellan första dokumentation av risktecken och de första åtgärderna från socialtjänsten; i de besluts- och insatsprocesser som sker i tidsspannet mellan första åtgärd och den tidpunkt då den unge lämnar samhällsvården; samt, i övergången mellan samhällsvårdens avslutning och den unges självständiga vuxenliv. Diskontinuitet kan vara kontextuellt och individuellt betingad och kopplad till administrativ hantering, relationer, informationsflöden eller vara erfaren eller associerad med problematikens allvarlighetsgrad. I många fall kan diskontinuitetsproblem ge negativa erfarenheter för unga i samhällsvård.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Akademikerförbundet SSR, 2020
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-175004 (URN)
Funder
Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
Note

Ingår i tryckt form som bilaga till Socionomen 2020:6

Available from: 2020-09-16 Created: 2020-09-16 Last updated: 2023-02-07Bibliographically approved
Khoo, E., Nygren, L. & Gümüscü, A. (2020). From Needs to Relationships to Organisations: Transactional Complexity in Social Work in the Swedish Social Services. British Journal of Social Work, 50(7), 2098-2115
Open this publication in new window or tab >>From Needs to Relationships to Organisations: Transactional Complexity in Social Work in the Swedish Social Services
2020 (English)In: British Journal of Social Work, ISSN 0045-3102, E-ISSN 1468-263X, Vol. 50, no 7, p. 2098-2115Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article explores how Swedish social workers in different sectors of the social services understand complexity in relation to the needs found in ‘family’ and in social work practice. This study is based on interviews with sixty social workers in five service sectors: child welfare, elderly care, disability care, substance abuse and social assistance. The social workers’ reports of understanding and dealing with families with complex needs reveal distinctions between deeply rooted and broadly based needs. Complex family needs are transformed into complex cases based on family composition, relationships between clients and social workers and organisational context. Complexity theory, and in particular the term transactional complexity, is applied to describe the interactive relationship in and between complex needs, relational complexity and organisational complexity. The boundaries between these three domains are not distinct, and the interconnectivity and complexities occurring in and between them contribute to the production of much of the ‘wickedness’ that exists in social work practice. Social workers may gain from this knowledge in order to unravel the often intangible complexity that commonly appears in social work with families.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2020
Keywords
Complex needs, complexity, family, social services, social worker
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-163534 (URN)10.1093/bjsw/bcz141 (DOI)000605986000010 ()2-s2.0-85099365825 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2010-0198Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2010-0198
Note

Originally included in thesis in manuscript form.

Available from: 2019-09-24 Created: 2019-09-24 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved
Blom, B., Isaksson, C. & Nygren, L. (2020). Kuratorn: det sociala arbetets centrala aktör i skolan (1ed.). In: Cristine Isaksson, Björn Blom och Lennart Nygren (Ed.), Socialt arbete i skolan: villkor, innehåll och utmaningar (pp. 19-26). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kuratorn: det sociala arbetets centrala aktör i skolan
2020 (Swedish)In: Socialt arbete i skolan: villkor, innehåll och utmaningar / [ed] Cristine Isaksson, Björn Blom och Lennart Nygren, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020, 1, p. 19-26Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020 Edition: 1
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174642 (URN)9789144109640 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-08-28 Created: 2020-08-28 Last updated: 2021-06-15Bibliographically approved
Nygren, L. (2020). Om värdet av förebyggande socialt arbete i skolan (1ed.). In: Cristine Isaksson, Björn Blom och Lennart Nygren (Ed.), Socialt arbete i skolan: villkor, innehåll och utmaningar (pp. 83-94). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Om värdet av förebyggande socialt arbete i skolan
2020 (Swedish)In: Socialt arbete i skolan: villkor, innehåll och utmaningar / [ed] Cristine Isaksson, Björn Blom och Lennart Nygren, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020, 1, p. 83-94Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020 Edition: 1
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174644 (URN)9789144109640 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-08-28 Created: 2020-08-28 Last updated: 2021-05-05Bibliographically approved
Projects
Social work with families with complex needs - on family orientation in Swedish social services [2010-00198_Forte]; Umeå UniversityTHE MPRESS STUDY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROGRAM ON MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH, BRAIN FUNCTIONING, SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, AND PARENTING IN MODERATELY PRETERM BORN CHILDREN AT 10-12 YRS OF AGE [2012-47_Formas]; Umeå UniversityResearch communication aimed at nursing and caring staff in the field of elderly and disability care and their managers [KOM18-1359:1_RJ]; Umeå University
Organisations
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