Social and Caring Professions in European Welfare States: Policies, Services and Professional Practices

SOCIAL AND CARING PROFESSIONS IN EUROPEAN WELFARE STATES\nContents\nList of tables and figures\nNotes on contributors\nPreface\n1. European social and caring professions in transition\n	Introduction\n	Social and caring welfare professions\n	Content of the book in brief\n	Countries representing European welfare models\nPart 1. Knowledge, reflection and identity in the social and caring welfare professions\n2. The impact of education on professional identity\n	Introduction\n	Research methods\n	Formation of professional identity\n	Impact of education\n	Empirical evidence\n	Coherence\n	Conclusion\n3. The construction of professional identity in social work: experience, analytical reflection and time\n	Introduction\n	The construction of professional identity\n	Experience: ambiguity and narrative constructions\n	Analytical reflection: a contextual struggle\n	Time: an unnoticed constituent of professional identity?\n	Conclusion\n4. Professional supervision and professional autonomy\n	Introduction\n	Central concepts: autonomy, discretion, agency and supervision\n	Circular reflections and concerns about professional autonomy and supervision\n	Discussion: how to cross the circular cycles of professional concerns\n	Conclusion\nPart 2. Control, regulation and management\n5. Reconfiguring professional autonomy? The case of social work in the UK\n	Introduction\n	Reconfiguration 1: social work in managerialist times\n	Reconfiguration 2: beyond managerialism?\n	Conclusion\n6. Auditing and accountability\n	Introduction\n	Purpose\n	Conceptual framework and methods\n	The character and function of two audit systems in Swedish eldercare\n	Consequences for key actors\n	Conclusion\n7. State regulation of the social work profession: an example from Poland\n	Introduction\n	Theoretical assumptions\n	Social work in Poland before and after 1989: historical heritage and the new political reality\n	Europeanisation of social welfare in Poland or the paradoxes of top-down modernisation of social work\n	Standardisation of social services in Poland and its possible consequences for the social work profession\n	Conclusion\nPart 3. Collaboration, conflict and competition\n8. Professional boundary crossing and interprofessional knowledge development\n	Introduction\n	Interprofessional practices\n	Examining collaborative practices in social work\n	What type of boundary crossing was taking place?\n	Conclusion: readiness for complexity?\nnine\n9. The formation of a profession: the case of physiotherapy in Norway\n	Introduction\n	Physiotherapy in Norway: from the beginning\n	The legacy from Sweden\n	Healthcare I: struggle for livelihood and public authorisation\n	Healthcare II: marking of the social mandate and physiotherapists’ own competence\n	Healthcare III: referral scheme – control of tasks\n	Gender and power\n	The educational sector I: the road to a public education run by the state\n	The educational sector II: professional borders, further education, academisation\n	Conclusion and general remarks\n11. Professional dilemmas of defining a problem: the case of addiction treatment\n	Introduction\n	Aim of the chapter\n	Historical perspectives on drugs and drug users in Sweden\n	Recent Swedish context\n	Medicalisation\n	Different perspectives, different professional dilemmas\n	Conclusion\n12. Challenges of municipal community work\n	Introduction\n	Public governance and community work\n	Community work and social development in a Polish context\n	The Kaufhaus case\n	Stakeholders of the project\n	Social workers’ and residents’ experience of the project\n	Conclusion\nPart 4. Assessment, negotiation and decision making\n13. On the unnoticed aspects of professional practice\n	Introduction\n	Negotiation in ‘fuzzy’ realities\n	Reflections on risk\n	Cooperation despite controversy\n	Conclusion and implications for professional development\n14. Can complexity in welfare professionals’ work be handled with standardised professional knowledge?\n	Introduction\n	The troublesome work organisation\n	Troublesome relationships with the client\n	Discussion\n15. Who is viewed as client by social workers and general practitioners?\n	Introduction\n	The conditions for SWs’ and GPs’ professional practice\n	Theoretical and organisational implications of variations in the content of professional practice\n16. Activation work as professional practice: complexities and professional boundaries at the street level of employment policy implementation\n	Introduction\n	The Italian case\n	The Austrian case\n	The Danish case\n	Conclusion\n17. Social and caring professions in European welfare states: trends and challenges\n	Introduction\n	The state gives, the state takes and the state alters the rules of the game\n	Welfare professions’ identity in transition\n	Struggle, conflict and collaboration\n	Knowledge as a tool in direct practice or a means for controlling professionals?\n	Conclusion\nIndex