Joint efforts among welfare services are often needed to provide help to people with complex needs. Interprofessional collaboration is believed to play an important part in successful service provisions. In Norway, a strong political will and significant efforts are focused on financing and implementing policies to support interprofessional collaboration. Despite this, empirical literature on the topic is fragmented. An overview of interprofessional collaboration in Norway is internationally relevant since the complexity in social service provision is experienced as challenging in different contexts. A scoping review was performed to investigate the facilitators of and constraints on interprofessional collaboration by Norwegian welfare services. After screening the relevant literature, 12 empirical studies were synthesized and analyzed using four dimensions of interprofessional collaboration (sharing, partnership, interdependence, and power). The results suggest that interprofessional collaboration by Norway's welfare services has not been fully actualized. This is partly due to the individual services' autonomy and segregation, which are reflected in laws and regulations, the funding system, and different ideological goals.

Tid er en viktig ressurs i velferdstjenestene og en sentral betingelse for samarbeid, men det er i liten grad forsket på hvilken betydning organiseringen av tiden har for samarbeidet mellom tjenestene. Gjennom fokusgruppeintervjuer med tre ungdomsteam i NAVog syv semistrukturerte intervjuer med ansatte i tjenesten for ruslidelse og psykisk lidelse og voksenpsykiatrien finner jeg at a) å etablere kontakt, b) samarbeidets rolle i arbeidstiden og c) endringene i reglene for arbeidsavklaringspenger gjør koordineringen av tjenester utfordrende for de ansatte. Dette gjenspeiler manglende koordinering på sentralt hold.

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This article examines how and where issues of gender emerged in Norwegian youths' self-defined constructions of security. Previous work has focused on security in relation to generational gaps and gendered perspectives, but there remains a need for further empirical research of an integrated perspective of security, gender and youth. Drawing on data collected from 21 interviews, this study provides insight into how youth understand the concept of security, seeking to isolate how and where gender related issues emerge in those perspectives. The findings of the study indicate that youth definitions of security are broad and cannot sufficiently be described by any one theoretical perspective on security; however, the youth often related their concept of security to how insecurities are experienced by others. Thus, when discussions of gender or other factors of security disparity emerged, they did so with an understanding of their own privileged security perspective.