Relationships Matter – The Impact of Working Alliances in Employment Services
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12715057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rasmus Lind Ravn (0000-0003-3273-161X, Aalborg University, corresponding author), Thomas Bredgaard (0000-0002-2709-2414, Aalborg University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 418-435 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Policy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-7464 • E-ISSN: 1475-3073 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1474746420000470 |
| OpenAlex | W3010491197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 26 |
A central assumption in social policy research and practice is that a strong working alliance between caseworkers and clients produces the best outcomes. There is, however, limited empirical evidence to support this assumption. This is especially the case within Active Labour Market Policies, where existing research focuses on programme effects rather than relationship effects. In this article, we examine whether strong working alliances produce higher employment and education outcomes for disadvantaged jobseekers. The case is a Danish municipality that invested in reducing the caseloads of caseworkers working with disadvantaged social assistance recipients. The data combine survey data on social assistance recipients with outcome data from national administrative registers. Based on linear regressions, the analysis indicates that strong working alliances are positively related to subsequent employment and education outcomes. We discuss the implications, limitations and generalisability of this finding and the conditions for providing stronger working alliances in employment services
Alliance · Business · Danish · Demographic economics · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Poverty · Public economics · Social policy · Survey data collection · Work (physics · Working poor · Working time · Employment and Welfare Studies · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Work First or Education First? Frontline Service Challenges of Providing Enabling Activation
Less Money, Less Time, More Complex Clients
Labour Market Programmes, Service Individualisation and Employment Outcomes
The Age-Negotiated Configuration of Welfare Conditionality
The Importance of Considering Debt and Young Children in Activation
Working With the Whole Person’
The Great Psychotherapy Debate
What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
The role of the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy.
The number of subjects per variable required in linear regression analyses
The generalizability of the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance.
Relation between working alliance and outcome in psychotherapy
When the State Meets the Street
How Many Subjects Does It Take To Do A Regression Analysis
Unemployment and disability pension-an 18-year follow-up study of a 40-year-old population in a Norwegian county
Employment effects of investments in public employment services for disadvantaged social assistance recipients
Evaluating What Works for Whom in Active Labour Market Policies
A Caseworker Like Me – Does The Similarity Between The Unemployed and Their Caseworkers Increase Job Placements
A Working Alliance Based Model of Supervision
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |