Epilogue: The Barnahus Model: Potentials and Challenges in the Nordic Context and Beyond

Stefansen, Kari; Johansson, Susanna; Kaldal, Anna; Bakketeig, Elisiv

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58388-4_16

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“…In line with previous studies on emplacement of care (e.g. Stefansen, 2017; Sumartojo et al, 2020), this study argues that care is not fixed in the material design, nor is it automatically instilled through political discourses. Rather, it is mediated through material surroundings and tacit doings that are folded in an atmosphere in particular time-space dimensions.…”

Section: Care In the Air?supporting

confidence: 85%

“…They show that senses of care are constantly shaped through staff's anticipation and physical movement. Similarly, Stefansen (2017) examines the establishment of a child-friendly environment, where children with traumatized experiences are interviewed. Stefansen argues that a caring atmosphere involves both an aesthetic-spatial dimension and active participation from the staff.…”

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Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies

Liu

2022

Journal of Material Culture

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This article builds upon literature on materialities of care and departs from a relational view of care and place. Using the concept of atmosphere, it investigates how care practices are situated spatially and temporally in pharmacies. In many countries, pharmacies are viewed as an important sector in formal healthcare systems. Rarely discussed in pharmacy literature is the affective and embodied aspect of care and care services. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Swedish pharmacies, I demonstrate that pharmaceutical care services are more than filling prescriptions and giving medical advice. Senses of care are partly accomplished through pharmacy staff's routinized and embodied engagement with the material environment. They also are performed through staff's tacit reading of customers. This article argues for an alternative understanding of care than an institutionally scripted one.

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Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies

Liu

2022

Journal of Material Culture

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“…Moreover, a distinct professional field related to the Barnahus model has emerged (cf. Stefansen et al 2017). The model has "progressed from the margins to the mainstream", to use Mulgan (2006, 145) formulation.…”

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“…This is not communicated in the core PROMISE documents, which simply mention (and take-forgranted) that the model is an integral part of both the child protection and criminal justice systems (Wenke n.d.). This contrasts with the emerging scholarship on the model (see Johansson et al 2017b;Stefansen et al 2017), which emphasises the role of the wider institutional landscape in the model's effects as well as more specific organisational structures.…”

Section: The Nordic Phase: Successive Policy Development and A Favourmentioning

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“…The model is also regulated differently (Johansson et al 2017b). As noted by Stefansen et al (2017), the Barnahus model is today consolidated, formalised and scaled up in the Nordic context. The concrete processes leading up to the model's implementation in the Nordic countries are described in national reports and by Johansson et al (2017b).…”

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Policy-making for the diffusion of social innovations: the case of the Barnahus model in the Nordic region and the broader European context

Johansson

Stefansen²

2019

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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The Barnahus model was launched in Iceland in 1998, and it subsequently spread to all the Nordic countries. It is an interagency, co-located model for working with cases of violence and abuse against children that addresses two vital concerns of welfare societies: to process cases through the legal system and to offer support and treatment to victims. The model is currently recommended as a best-practice model on the European leveland understood as representing a radical change in the organisational setup related to such cases. This paper analyses the diffusion and implementation of the model in two different contexts: the Nordic region and the wider European arena, where the model is currently promoted as an important innovation. Drawing on the concept of social innovation, we explore the structural and contextual conditions for the diffusion of the model and discuss its role in the ongoing transformation of welfare societies' response to children exposed to violence and abuse. We identify the policy-making means by which the model is promoted today and conclude that it can lead to manifold institutional changes, both radical and incremental, and both desired and undesired, depending on how the original idea is translated and adapted in different contexts.

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Diffusion and Translation of the Barnahus Model Through the Lens of Institutional Tensions

Johansson,

Stefansen,

Kaldal

et al. 2024

Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology

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Since the Barnahus model was first introduced in Iceland in 1998, it has spread to a number of European countries, both within and beyond the Nordic region. This introductory chapter has two main objectives: The first is to describe the further diffusion of the Barnahus model throughout Europe and to exemplify various translations at local levels; the second is to set the framework for the book by introducing the concepts of institutional tensions and logics. We introduce the concepts involved in understanding the Barnahus model in the light of its ongoing implementation within different institutional contexts and related to this book’s four main themes: (1) legal tensions, (2) organisational tensions, (3) professional-ethical tensions, and (4) balancing institutional tensions.

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Epilogue: The Barnahus Model: Potentials and Challenges in the Nordic Context and Beyond

Abstract: The Barnahus model was introduced in the Nordic countries as a response to a growing recognition of the need for more integrated and child-centred services for children exposed to violence and sexual abuse. It has been

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Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies

Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies

Policy-making for the diffusion of social innovations: the case of the Barnahus model in the Nordic region and the broader European context

Diffusion and Translation of the Barnahus Model Through the Lens of Institutional Tensions

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