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Title Responsibilization at the margins of welfare services / edited by Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari and Christopher Hall
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016

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Series Routledge Advances in Social Work
Routledge advances in social work.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I Conceptual and methodological premises; 2 Responsibilisation in governmentality literature; 3 Responsibilities and current welfare discourses; 4 Analysing the management of responsibilities at the margins of welfare practices; PART II Managing client responsibilities; 5 Clients accounting for the responsible self in interviews; 6 Making active citizens in the community in client-worker interaction; 7 Negotiating risks, choices and progress in case-planning meetings
PART III Managing worker and service provider responsibilities8 Welfare workers reflecting their everyday responsibilities in focus groups; 9 Negotiating boundaries of professional responsibilities in team meetings; 10 Constructing service providers' responsibilities in interviews on commissioning; 11 Conclusions; Index
Summary 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' from the point of view of both the responsibilised client and welfare worker', the book breaks from the traditional literature to demonstrate how responsibilities are negotiated during multi-professional care planning meetings, home visits, staff meetings, focus groups and interviews with different stakeholders. The settings examined in the book can be described as on the margins of welfare' - mental health, substance abuse, homelessness services and probation work, where the rights and responsibilities of clients and workers are uncertain and constantly under review. Each chapter approaches the management of responsibilities from a particular angle by combining responsibilisation theory and discourse analysis to examine everyday encounters. Taken together, the chapters paint a comprehensive picture of the responsibilisation practices at the margins of welfare services and provide an extensive discussion of the implications for policy and practice. Drawing upon both the governmentality literature and everyday encounters, the book provides a broad approach to a key topic. It will therefore be a valuable resource for social policy, public administration, social work and human service researchers and students, and social and health care professionals
Notes Includes index
Kirsi Juhila is Professor in Social Work at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her research interests include adult social work, marginality, homelessness, mental health and discursive interaction analysis. She is the co-editor of Analysing Social Work Communication (Routledge, 2014) and Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003) Suvi Raitakari received her Ph. D. in social work from the University of Tampere in 2006 and is currently a Senior Lecturer in social work at the same university. Her research interests include welfare policies and practices, client-worker interaction, mental health and substance abuse issues, marginalisation, homelessness and housing support, rhetoric and ethnomethodological-discursive approaches. Christopher Hall is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Work and Social Care, University of Sussex. He has previously held research posts at Durham University, Huddersfield University and Dartington Social Research Unit. He has carried out research into policies and practices in child welfare and mental health services, with a particular interest in discourse and narrative approaches to worker-client encounters, especially home visits
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Subject Social service -- Europe
Social service -- Practice -- Europe
Social work administration -- Europe
Public welfare -- Europe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work.
Public welfare
Social service
Social service -- Practice
Social work administration
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Juhila, Kirsi, editor
Raitakari, Suvi, editor
Hall, Christopher, 1948- editor.
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