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Policy Alienation in Frontline Social Work – A Study of Social Workers’ Responses to a Major Anticipated Social and Health Care Reform in Finland
2021
Change in the policy and ideology governing social and health care has been much debated in the Western welfare states, including in Finland, where the public sector has witnessed a shift towards a market and managerial ideology in a climate of austerity. These changes affect organisations as well as individual workers. Social workers implement social policies in their daily work, and are thus positioned in between policies and clients. This may expose them to feelings of unease in the implementation of certain policies. In this study, we apply the policy alienation framework of Tummers and colleagues (2009. “Policy Alienation of Public Professionals: Application in a new Public Management …
Identifying opportunities for AI applications in healthcare — Renewing the national healthcare and social services
2018
A vast variety of artificial intelligence techniques have been deployed to specific healthcare problems during the last thirty years with varying levels of success while there is a shortage of systematic matching of AI capabilities with the breadth of application opportunities. In this paper, we describe the process of identifying opportunities for deploying artificial intelligence to healthcare and social services on regional and national levels in Finland. The project involved a large number of stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds ranging from governmental agencies to entrepreneurs. The process described includes idea generation of an application or solution and its elaboration in w…
Työssä oppiminen ja työhyvinvointi muuttuvassa organisaatiossa : Jyväskylän aikuissosiaalityöntekijöiden käsityksiä työssä oppimisesta ja työhyvinvoi…
2012
Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään Jyväskylän aikuissosiaalityöntekijöiden käsityksiä työssä oppimisen ja työhyvinvoinnin välisestä suhteesta Kunta- ja palvelurakennemuutoksen jälkeisessä organi-saatiossa. Tutkimus toteutetaan fenomenografista tutkimusotetta käyttäen. Fenomenografisella tut-kimusotteella tarkastellaan ihmisten tapoja kokea ja kuvailla ympäröivän maailman ilmiöitä. Tut-kimuksen tuloksia tarkastellaan ja peilataan aiheesta aikaisemmin tuotettuun teoriaan ja tutkimustie-toon. Haastateltujen aikuissosiaalityöntekijöiden mielestä Kunta- ja palvelurakennemuutos sekä samaan aikaan käyttöön otettu tiimimalli vaikuttivat merkittävästi työn tekoon, työssä oppimisen vaateisiin sekä työss…
Sosiaalialan asiakastietojärjestelmissä paljon parannettavaa: käyttäjäkokemukset 2019
2020
Sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon digitalisaatiolle on asetettu paljon odotuksia niin palveluiden laadun, saavutettavuuden kuin tehokkuuden osalta. Asiakas- ja potilastietojärjestelmiltä odotetaan paljon tavoitteiden saavuttamiseksi. Asiakastietojärjestelmät ovat laajasti käytössä sosiaalialalla, mutta niiden käyttöä työvälineenä ja niiden avulla saavutettuja hyötyjä on tutkittu ammattilaisten näkökulmasta vain vähän. Keväällä 2019 kartoitettiin ensimmäistä kertaa valtakunnallisesti sosiaalialan ammattilaisten käyttäjäkokemuksia asiakastietojärjestelmistä. Tässä artikkelissa kuvataan kyselytutkimuksen toteutus ja tulokset eniten käytettyjen tuotemerkkien osalta. Tutkimus toimii pilottina vuonna…
Next-generation modelling of community work and structural social work in Finland
2021
The recently reformed Finnish Social Welfare Act obligates public social work to enact structural social work, and to address the community- and structural-level social problems behind individual cases. This article examines how community work and structural social work are conceived by early career social workers. The empirical data consists of 26 project plans by social work Master’s students studying in a working life-based part-time programme. The data includes designs for community work or structural social work to be applied in practice to address a real social problem or issue identified by the students in their working environment. The designs are analysed by content analysis and re…
Fidelity and influencing factors in the Systemic Practice Model of children's social care in Finland
2020
Given that multiple countries have recently adopted social work practice models in children’s services, it is striking that only a few studies have systematically analysed both the level of fidelity and potential implementation barriers and facilitators. The aim of this study is to provide an in-depth analysis of how and why the Reclaiming Social Work (RSW) model works in different settings. The study context was the implementation in Finland of an adaptation of the model, the Systemic Practice Model (SPM). This mixed-methods study evaluates 1) fidelity to the SPM and 2) the possible influencing factors. The results reveal high variability in the extent of fidelity in 23 implementation site…
Evaluating the effectiveness of the systemic practice model of children’s social care – A pilot study on child- and family-level outcomes
2023
The Systemic Practice Model (SPM) is a Finnish adaptation of the Reclaiming Social Work (RSW) model, which incorporates systemic ideas and practice into children’s social care. This study is the first attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the RSW model outside England. The study employed a quasi-experimental repeated measures design. Questionnaires assessing child- and family-level outcomes and the quantity (i.e., number of meetings) and quality (i.e., service user feedback) of the practice were administered to social workers, children and parents twice over a six-month follow-up period. Outcome data comprise 112 cases (SPM cases n = 56, service-as-usual cases n = 56) from 18 child prote…
Aging well in the community: Understanding the complexities of older people's dial-a-ride bus journeys
2021
Older peoples' independent living in their own homes and their ability to move around and maintain social relations in their communities have been acknowledged as important aims to support their well-being. In this article, we study Special Transport Services as a means to support older persons with ‘aging in place’ – that is, within their communities. From “go-alongs” (shared dial-a-ride bus journeys) and “sit-down interviews” (at participant's home or a café) with 12 older people living in a Finnish suburb, we explored their everyday dial-a-ride bus trips to the local mall. We used actor-network theory and the concept of motility to show how at first glance what appeared to be simple dial…
Asiakasturvallisuus vanhuspalveluissa
2022
Artikkelissa analysoidaan asiakasturvallisuuden määrittymistä vanhuspalveluita koskevissa politiikka-asiakirjoissa. Asiakasturvallisuutta lähestytään kysymyksenä yhteiskunnallisesta sekä asiakassuhteissa toteutuvasta luottamuksesta. Artikkelissa kysytään, miten asiakasturvallisuus määrittyy asiakirjoissa ja mitä se tarkoittaa luottamuksen näkökulmasta. Tulosten mukaan asiakasturvallisuuden sisältö ja merkitys suhteessa potilasturvallisuuden käsitteeseen on vanhuspalveluissa vasta jäsentymässä. Asiakasturvallisuus määrittyy asiakirjoissa etenkin palveluiden tarjoajien vastuuna turvallisuuskulttuurin kehittämisestä sekä pyrkimyksenä ikääntyneiden asumisen ja asuinympäristön kehittämiseen tekn…
Making experts-by-experience : governmental ethnography of participatory initiatives in Finnish social welfare organisations
2018
This dissertation analyses expertise-by-experience in Finnish social welfare organisations as part of the participatory practices presented as new democracy. It employs a governmental ethnographic method to investigate how a person with difficult experiences is made into ‘an expert of one’s own life’ and how the subjectivity thus created is connected to different possibilities and rationales of participation. It asks: 1. What characterises the subjectivities created in the initiatives? 2. How (through which practices) are the participants constructed as experts? In this summary article the democratic quality of expert-making practices is interpreted through a critical democratic lens by inq…