Negotiating mental health rehabilitation plans: Joint future talk and clashing time talk in professional client interaction

Juhila, Kirsi; Günther, Kirsi; Raitakari, Suvi

doi:10.1177/0961463x14523925

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“…How social workers talk about and with service users is by no means irrelevant; it is a discursive action wherein the service users are constructed. Thus, for professionals as well as service users, to have an aware discussion on terms and the categories they bring the joint work to resist and counter stigma in mental health found in category the ordinary but eccentric would then have a greater chance to be advanced (Juhila, Günther, & Raitakari, 2015). As such, that could also increase the possibility for service user organisations to have a more viable part in collaboration, in that their categories and counter-discourse becomes more visible.…”

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“…Service user organisations represent a reaction against being labelled, and offer a counter-discourse to both the professional and the marketoriented discourses (McDonald, 2006), thus giving an alternative construction of the service user. This would also be one of the goals of social work: that together with the service users to promote identity categories that contain strength and capacity to solve their problems (Juhila, Günther, and Raitakari 2015). Swedish service user organisations, on their official Internet sites, refer to their members mostly as 'people who/with … ', and more seldom or not at all as 'service users', 'clients', or 'patients'.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Construction of service users in strategic collaboration including mental health and social services, and service user organisations

Mossberg

2019

European Journal of Social Work

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Construction of service users in strategic collaboration including mental health and social services, and service user organisations

Mossberg

2019

European Journal of Social Work

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“…But the professionals' and clients' views may just as well differ on 'what the case at hand is', and this often causes difficulties in the client-practitioner relationship, even the client's exclusion from the services. (see also Juhila et al 2014a and2014b. ) In current research and practice, 21 shared understanding, client involvement and decision-making are stressed as pivotal to effective and ethical treatment and rehabilitation (e.g.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Causal accounts as a consequential device in categorizing mental health and substance abuse problems

Raitakari¹,

Günther

Juhila

et al. 2014

Communication & Medicine

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Professionals in human service work are at the centre of complicated client cases. The ways client cases are constructed and the problems explained form the basis for professionals' assessments, decisions, actions and interventions. In this article the ways professionals make sense of dual diagnosis client cases are examined. Applying the concept of causal accounting it is argued that 'theories of cause' are embedded in professional discourse and that they profoundly shape professionals' understanding of the social and health problems, their roles and responsibilities and possible interventions and outcomes.The data consist of 48 tape-recorded weekly team meetings among the professionals in a supported housing unit targeted for clients with both mental health and substance abuse problems. Four different ways to reason for the relations between these two problems are found: (i) substance abuse causes or makes mental health problems worse; (ii) substance abuse eases mental health problems; (iii) mental health problems cause or make substance abuse worse; and (iv) good mental health reduces substance abuse. Causal account research makes visible the ways professionals do institutional work by categorizing clients, accounting for responsibilities as well as assessing their work and clients' achievements according to moral expectations of a 'good' professional and a worthy client.

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“…While no explicit references to developmentalism are provided in this case, the assessment still points to an incapability of following linear progressive development and expectations of normality (Fahlgren, 2009;Juhila et al, 2015).…”

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Social change in developmental times? On ‘changeability’ and the uneven timings of child welfare interventions

Knezevic¹

2020

Time & Society

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While temporality has been addressed in the context of child welfare, the temporal dimensions of differentiation and othering remain unacknowledged. This article draws on material from a Swedish child welfare agency and is theoretically inspired by postcolonial and queer theories and critical childhood studies. It is based on an analytical juxtaposition of care order applications recommending immediate child welfare interventions versus interventions that are recommended after long ongoing assessments. Such recommendations are addressed as unequal in terms of timing. The article discusses temporal themes related to permanency versus temporary, which guide assessments of changeability. I show how immediate interventions respond to chronicity—the temporality of incurability, permanency, and underdevelopment. However, social problems in long ongoing assessments are assessed as permanent only after long ongoing observations or passage of time. The article discusses how ideas about change reproduce wider societal and intersecting inequalities. This becomes visible when considering time as allocated to parents and their potential to bring about change. I argue that even though permanency differs from chronicity, it still limits a discussion about change as societal, and the detection of problems remains within a developmentalist and neoliberal framework. In the concluding remarks, I offer an alternative reading of allocated time that can manoeuvre developmentalist logics, while balancing responsibilisation between the individual and the society.

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Negotiating mental health rehabilitation plans: Joint future talk and clashing time talk in professional client interaction

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

Construction of service users in strategic collaboration including mental health and social services, and service user organisations

Construction of service users in strategic collaboration including mental health and social services, and service user organisations

Causal accounts as a consequential device in categorizing mental health and substance abuse problems

Social change in developmental times? On ‘changeability’ and the uneven timings of child welfare interventions

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