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This article describes Swedish women’s experiences of life as single. Data showed that singlehood was not actively chosen but rather a situation that participants ended up in due to separation from a partner. However, once single, participants chose to remain single. The lack of gender equality in traditional cohabiting couplehood made participants wary about entering a new cohabiting couple relationship. Living apart together (LAT) relationships were identified as a possible way to combine gender-equal intimacy with personal freedom and independence. Data suggested that the increased number of single women may not necessarily point to an increased desirability of singleness per se, nor to a rejection of coupled intimacy. Singlehood was rather a rejection of the limitations associated with cohabiting couplehood. The article highlights the importance of the Swedish welfare state for making it possible for women to remain single, even those with dependent children.
This collection provides new insights about current welfare professions in a number of European countries.
Focusing on research representing different types of European welfare states, including the Scandinavian and the Continental, the book offers in-depth understandings of professionals’ everyday work within different contextual conditions, explored from empirical and theoretical perspectives. Subjects covered include knowledge and identity, education and professional development, regulation, accountability, collaboration, assessment and decision making.
This is a valuable contribution to the discussion of professionalism and welfare professions, offering lessons learned and ways forward.
This chapter describes the background, the aim and the content of the book. It gives a short introduction to social and caring professions in Europe, and argues that they have undergone considerable changes during recent decades, and are in a stage of transition. The chapter introduces four questions that make up the starting-point for this book. How are social and caring welfare professionals’ identity influenced by education, work experience and supervision? How are social and caring welfare professions affected by governance, regulation and control by the state? How are social and caring welfare professions affected by collaboration, conflict and competition with other welfare professions? How do social and caring welfare professionals, in practice, assess and make decisions in their work with clients and patients?
This chapter focuses on the pros and cons of involving professional social workers, employed in municipal social services, as animators of local community organising projects in urban, socially and economically degraded residential areas. Such projects aim at the active inclusion of inhabitants in improving their own situation and to promote social development. Local authorities can face great difficulties when using their own staff as the driving force of local community organising. The main difficulty is that many inhabitants have a negative attitude towards welfare institutions and frequently refuse to cooperate. The fact that the social workers are animating the project work for the local authority complicates the situation.
This chapter concentrates on current tendencies, movements and challenges for social and caring welfare professions in Europe. It takes a ”bird’s-eye view” to spot a number of key issues and trends depicted in this book’s various contributions. The discussion focuses on the position that individual modern welfare states have in relation to social and caring professions, since this is one of the more significant tendencies appearing in the book. The chapter also discusses professionals’ identity, conflicts between professions and what role formal knowledge plays in social and caring welfare professionals’ direct practice.
This book discusses current social and caring welfare professions and their practices in a number of European countries in a comprehensive and structured way. It presents research-based knowledge in order to offer insights into the current practices of social and caring welfare professions in countries with different cultural, social and political contexts, as well as deeper knowledge about the subtle, dynamic, affective and interactive aspects of professional work. This challenges the view that social and caring welfare professionals’ work concentrates on rational use of knowledge. The book also discusses contextual factors influencing professionals’ work (e.g. government control, organisation models and inter-professional collaboration), and explores knowledge concerning the ways attitudes, emotions, identities and education affect professional work. The book is structured in four themes, the first being knowledge, reflection and identity, the second control, regulation and management, the third collaboration, conflict and competition and the final theme being assessment, negotiation and decision-making. These themes are central to social and caring professions in Europe in the current situation where they face new demands and expectations.
This book discusses current social and caring welfare professions and their practices in a number of European countries in a comprehensive and structured way. It presents research-based knowledge in order to offer insights into the current practices of social and caring welfare professions in countries with different cultural, social and political contexts, as well as deeper knowledge about the subtle, dynamic, affective and interactive aspects of professional work. This challenges the view that social and caring welfare professionals’ work concentrates on rational use of knowledge. The book also discusses contextual factors influencing professionals’ work (e.g. government control, organisation models and inter-professional collaboration), and explores knowledge concerning the ways attitudes, emotions, identities and education affect professional work. The book is structured in four themes, the first being knowledge, reflection and identity, the second control, regulation and management, the third collaboration, conflict and competition and the final theme being assessment, negotiation and decision-making. These themes are central to social and caring professions in Europe in the current situation where they face new demands and expectations.
This book discusses current social and caring welfare professions and their practices in a number of European countries in a comprehensive and structured way. It presents research-based knowledge in order to offer insights into the current practices of social and caring welfare professions in countries with different cultural, social and political contexts, as well as deeper knowledge about the subtle, dynamic, affective and interactive aspects of professional work. This challenges the view that social and caring welfare professionals’ work concentrates on rational use of knowledge. The book also discusses contextual factors influencing professionals’ work (e.g. government control, organisation models and inter-professional collaboration), and explores knowledge concerning the ways attitudes, emotions, identities and education affect professional work. The book is structured in four themes, the first being knowledge, reflection and identity, the second control, regulation and management, the third collaboration, conflict and competition and the final theme being assessment, negotiation and decision-making. These themes are central to social and caring professions in Europe in the current situation where they face new demands and expectations.
This book discusses current social and caring welfare professions and their practices in a number of European countries in a comprehensive and structured way. It presents research-based knowledge in order to offer insights into the current practices of social and caring welfare professions in countries with different cultural, social and political contexts, as well as deeper knowledge about the subtle, dynamic, affective and interactive aspects of professional work. This challenges the view that social and caring welfare professionals’ work concentrates on rational use of knowledge. The book also discusses contextual factors influencing professionals’ work (e.g. government control, organisation models and inter-professional collaboration), and explores knowledge concerning the ways attitudes, emotions, identities and education affect professional work. The book is structured in four themes, the first being knowledge, reflection and identity, the second control, regulation and management, the third collaboration, conflict and competition and the final theme being assessment, negotiation and decision-making. These themes are central to social and caring professions in Europe in the current situation where they face new demands and expectations.
The close connection to the welfare state has been favourable for the development of many welfare professions. But the state does not always act as an ally. It can push professions in a direction they do not want to go. This happened to the social work profession in Poland where the social work profession claimed jurisdiction for working with children and families with complex needs, but the state chose to give jurisdiction to a new profession – the family assistants. In this chapter, it is argued that this type of jurisdictional dispute should be framed within a political framework, analysing welfare policies as a structuring link between state and professional jurisdiction. The “fate” of the social work profession in Poland reflects a lack of bargaining capacity vis-à-vis the state to tie social policies concerning social work with children and families to their jurisdiction.
