Stefan Sjöström
Biographic Data
| ID | 244012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Sjöström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sjöström |
| SIGNATURE | SJÖSTRÖM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4540-5373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Victim blaming as collateral damage: Professionals on Court Hearings in Cases of Rape, Assault, and Fraud
This study investigates legal professionals’ understanding of the attribution of moral guilt to complainants in court hearings, comparing rape, assault, and fraud cases in Sweden. Sixteen semi‐structured interviews were conducted with judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, and complainants’ counsels. The findings suggest that while professionals assert that attributions of moral guilt to complainants are rare, complainants may perceive blame due t…
Service user entrepreneurs and claims to authority – a case study in the mental health area
Mental health service user movements have historically to a large extent employed collective forms of mobilisation, where people with service user experience have joined in formal organisations or informal groups. Currently, expressions of service user engagement are changing, and we can now observe the growth of more individualised expressions, often enacted online. This article introduces the concept ‘service user entrepreneur’ (SUE), that rela…
What if an Investigative Journalist Calls? Media Relations in Social Work
This article aims to investigate to what extent social service organisations (SSOs) conceive news management as a means to promote organisational self-interest as opposed to achieving democratic openness. The study is based on a nationally representative telephone survey with persons responsible for communication or public relations in Swedish SSOs (n=91). Against the background of descriptive statistics, the aim is pursued by qualitative analysi…
Labelling theory
This chapter discusses the labelling theory of mental illness as originally presented by Thomas Scheff in 1966, as well as the debates and developments that have followed his work. Labelling theory is one of the most influential theoretical approaches that has been systematically applied to understand mental illness as a social phenomenon. It can be seen as a social constructivist approach with a kinship to notions such as medicalisation, stigma …
Participatory Spaces of Mental Health Service User Organizations in the Post-deinstitutional Era: Mapping Roles and Challenges
By applying the concept of participatory spaces, this article maps and analyzes current research on mental health service user organizations (MHSUOs). We have analyzed research literature from 2006 to 2016 to examine how the role of and challenges facing MHSUOs are formulated in the post-deinstitutional era. The current situation is marked by MHSUOs parallel presence in invited, claimed and popular spaces for participation. The post-deinstitution…
Offer, minna och utsatthet. Diskurser om alkohol i våldtäckts- och misshandelsmål
The alcohol consumption of female rape victims is often discussed during rape trials. This has been regarded as an emblematic example of victim blaming and the failures of the legal system in relation to rape. From a feminist perspective it can be seen as an expression of the structural subordination of women in society in general. This article investigates the meanings attached to alcohol in written court decisions in Swedish rape trials (2008-2…
Looking for ‘social work’ in school social work
School social workers can be seen as a professional group operating on the margin of an educational logic that dominates schools as institutions. This conditions what tasks they are assigned and what aspects of social work knowledge they will find relevant. On the other hand, the role as a sole professional and relative outsider in the organization provides a potential for school social workers to transcend established theories of social work pra…
Translating Coercion Policy into Inter-Organisational Collaboration-the Implementation of Compulsory Community Care for People with Mental Illness
In 2008, compulsory community care (CCC) for people with severe mental illness was introduced in Sweden. CCC requires co-operation between psychiatric and social services, thus further complicating the longstanding difficulties with service coordination in the mental health field.This article investigates what happens when a new policy is introduced that assumes complex co-operation of two organisations bestowed with high degrees of discretion. T…
Stories of Rediscovering Agency: Home-Based Occupational Therapy for People With Severe Psychiatric Disability
As part of a larger study, we offered Everyday Life Rehabilitation (ELR) as a model for integrated occupational therapy in sheltered or supported housing facilities, to enable meaningful daily occupations for people with psychiatric disabilities. Our aim with this study was to understand how participants made sense of their occupational transformations in the context of their everyday life and life history. We carried out qualitative interviews a…
Home Bittersweet Home: The Significance of Home for Occupational Transformations
Background: The study illuminated how persons with psychiatric disabilities experienced the processes of change in a residential context. Material: Qualitative interviews with residents living in supported housing were conducted and analyzed using constant comparative analysis. Discussion: Residential conditions appear to provide a complex structure that facilitates rehabilitative interactions, in which ‘progressive tensions’ arise between opposi…
Konsensus och personifierade konflikter: Problembeskrivningar Av Äldreomsorg I Svensk Dagspress
Consensus and personified conflicts: representations of elderly care issues in Swedish newspapersElderly care issues are commonly framed in public discourse. In mass media the representations of such issues are influenced by media logic. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse how elderly care issues were represented in three Swedish newspapers during the first half of 2007. How were the problems characterized? How were different act…
Defender, spokesperson, therapist: Representing the true interest of the client in therapeutic law
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of the legal representative in therapeutic law, specifically in Swedish administrative court hearings relating to compulsory care. Data are collected from three types of cases where a health or social welfare authority argues that it is necessary to apply coercion to a citizen: the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act, the Care of Alcohol and Drug Abusers (Special Provisions) Act and the Co…
Kollegialitet, terapi och medling: Expertgranskning I Psykiatrimål
Collegealism, therapy and mediation - experts’ interpretative repertoires in court hearings relating to compulsory psychiatric careThis article investigates the role of court appointed psychiatrists (AP) in Swedish court hearings relating to compulsory psychiatric care. Data consists of tape recordings and documents from twelve court hearings together with informal interviews with actors in court. The discourse in court is analyzed in terms of in…
Röster i rätten
In the ongoing project: Therapist and adverse party — court hearings about coercive intervention, we analyze the communication process in court hearings concerning cases where citizens are subjected to coercive measures (compulsory care for psychiatric patients and drug abusers, social authorities' interventions to separate children from their parents). The primary purpose is to analyze the dilemma of balancing two seemingly incompatible roles fo…
Hemligt och hemlikt: Professionella samtal i bostaden
The article takes its departure from the tradition of research on institutional discourse, conversations between experts and clients in settings like hospitals, social welfare bureaus/offices, courts etc. In the reformed care for people with psychiatric disorders, a new kind of expert-client communication occurs, namely in the home of the client. The article discusses how features in communicative context such as discursive dominance, social cont…
Participatory Spaces of Mental Health Service User Organizations in the Post-deinstitutional Era: Mapping Roles and Challenges
By applying the concept of participatory spaces, this article maps and analyzes current research on mental health service user organizations (MHSUOs). We have analyzed research literature from 2006 to 2016 to examine how the role of and challenges facing MHSUOs are formulated in the post-deinstitutional era. The current situation is marked by MHSUOs parallel presence in invited, claimed and popular spaces for participation. The post-deinstitution…
Service user entrepreneurs and claims to authority – a case study in the mental health area
Mental health service user movements have historically to a large extent employed collective forms of mobilisation, where people with service user experience have joined in formal organisations or informal groups. Currently, expressions of service user engagement are changing, and we can now observe the growth of more individualised expressions, often enacted online. This article introduces the concept ‘service user entrepreneur’ (SUE), that rela…
What if an Investigative Journalist Calls? Media Relations in Social Work
This article aims to investigate to what extent social service organisations (SSOs) conceive news management as a means to promote organisational self-interest as opposed to achieving democratic openness. The study is based on a nationally representative telephone survey with persons responsible for communication or public relations in Swedish SSOs (n=91). Against the background of descriptive statistics, the aim is pursued by qualitative analysi…
Konsensus och personifierade konflikter: Problembeskrivningar Av Äldreomsorg I Svensk Dagspress
Consensus and personified conflicts: representations of elderly care issues in Swedish newspapersElderly care issues are commonly framed in public discourse. In mass media the representations of such issues are influenced by media logic. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse how elderly care issues were represented in three Swedish newspapers during the first half of 2007. How were the problems characterized? How were different act…
Looking for ‘social work’ in school social work
School social workers can be seen as a professional group operating on the margin of an educational logic that dominates schools as institutions. This conditions what tasks they are assigned and what aspects of social work knowledge they will find relevant. On the other hand, the role as a sole professional and relative outsider in the organization provides a potential for school social workers to transcend established theories of social work pra…
Translating Coercion Policy into Inter-Organisational Collaboration-the Implementation of Compulsory Community Care for People with Mental Illness
In 2008, compulsory community care (CCC) for people with severe mental illness was introduced in Sweden. CCC requires co-operation between psychiatric and social services, thus further complicating the longstanding difficulties with service coordination in the mental health field.This article investigates what happens when a new policy is introduced that assumes complex co-operation of two organisations bestowed with high degrees of discretion. T…
Defender, spokesperson, therapist: Representing the true interest of the client in therapeutic law
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of the legal representative in therapeutic law, specifically in Swedish administrative court hearings relating to compulsory care. Data are collected from three types of cases where a health or social welfare authority argues that it is necessary to apply coercion to a citizen: the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act, the Care of Alcohol and Drug Abusers (Special Provisions) Act and the Co…
Röster i rätten
In the ongoing project: Therapist and adverse party — court hearings about coercive intervention, we analyze the communication process in court hearings concerning cases where citizens are subjected to coercive measures (compulsory care for psychiatric patients and drug abusers, social authorities' interventions to separate children from their parents). The primary purpose is to analyze the dilemma of balancing two seemingly incompatible roles fo…
Hemligt och hemlikt: Professionella samtal i bostaden
The article takes its departure from the tradition of research on institutional discourse, conversations between experts and clients in settings like hospitals, social welfare bureaus/offices, courts etc. In the reformed care for people with psychiatric disorders, a new kind of expert-client communication occurs, namely in the home of the client. The article discusses how features in communicative context such as discursive dominance, social cont…
Kollegialitet, terapi och medling: Expertgranskning I Psykiatrimål
Collegealism, therapy and mediation - experts’ interpretative repertoires in court hearings relating to compulsory psychiatric careThis article investigates the role of court appointed psychiatrists (AP) in Swedish court hearings relating to compulsory psychiatric care. Data consists of tape recordings and documents from twelve court hearings together with informal interviews with actors in court. The discourse in court is analyzed in terms of in…
Defender, spokesperson, therapist: Representing the true interest of the client in therapeutic law
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of the legal representative in therapeutic law, specifically in Swedish administrative court hearings relating to compulsory care. Data are collected from three types of cases where a health or social welfare authority argues that it is necessary to apply coercion to a citizen: the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act, the Care of Alcohol and Drug Abusers (Special Provisions) Act and the Co…
Home Bittersweet Home: The Significance of Home for Occupational Transformations
Background: The study illuminated how persons with psychiatric disabilities experienced the processes of change in a residential context. Material: Qualitative interviews with residents living in supported housing were conducted and analyzed using constant comparative analysis. Discussion: Residential conditions appear to provide a complex structure that facilitates rehabilitative interactions, in which ‘progressive tensions’ arise between opposi…
Konsensus och personifierade konflikter: Problembeskrivningar Av Äldreomsorg I Svensk Dagspress
Consensus and personified conflicts: representations of elderly care issues in Swedish newspapersElderly care issues are commonly framed in public discourse. In mass media the representations of such issues are influenced by media logic. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse how elderly care issues were represented in three Swedish newspapers during the first half of 2007. How were the problems characterized? How were different act…
Stories of Rediscovering Agency: Home-Based Occupational Therapy for People With Severe Psychiatric Disability
As part of a larger study, we offered Everyday Life Rehabilitation (ELR) as a model for integrated occupational therapy in sheltered or supported housing facilities, to enable meaningful daily occupations for people with psychiatric disabilities. Our aim with this study was to understand how participants made sense of their occupational transformations in the context of their everyday life and life history. We carried out qualitative interviews a…
Offer, minna och utsatthet. Diskurser om alkohol i våldtäckts- och misshandelsmål
The alcohol consumption of female rape victims is often discussed during rape trials. This has been regarded as an emblematic example of victim blaming and the failures of the legal system in relation to rape. From a feminist perspective it can be seen as an expression of the structural subordination of women in society in general. This article investigates the meanings attached to alcohol in written court decisions in Swedish rape trials (2008-2…
Looking for ‘social work’ in school social work
School social workers can be seen as a professional group operating on the margin of an educational logic that dominates schools as institutions. This conditions what tasks they are assigned and what aspects of social work knowledge they will find relevant. On the other hand, the role as a sole professional and relative outsider in the organization provides a potential for school social workers to transcend established theories of social work pra…
Translating Coercion Policy into Inter-Organisational Collaboration-the Implementation of Compulsory Community Care for People with Mental Illness
In 2008, compulsory community care (CCC) for people with severe mental illness was introduced in Sweden. CCC requires co-operation between psychiatric and social services, thus further complicating the longstanding difficulties with service coordination in the mental health field.This article investigates what happens when a new policy is introduced that assumes complex co-operation of two organisations bestowed with high degrees of discretion. T…
Labelling theory
This chapter discusses the labelling theory of mental illness as originally presented by Thomas Scheff in 1966, as well as the debates and developments that have followed his work. Labelling theory is one of the most influential theoretical approaches that has been systematically applied to understand mental illness as a social phenomenon. It can be seen as a social constructivist approach with a kinship to notions such as medicalisation, stigma …
Participatory Spaces of Mental Health Service User Organizations in the Post-deinstitutional Era: Mapping Roles and Challenges
By applying the concept of participatory spaces, this article maps and analyzes current research on mental health service user organizations (MHSUOs). We have analyzed research literature from 2006 to 2016 to examine how the role of and challenges facing MHSUOs are formulated in the post-deinstitutional era. The current situation is marked by MHSUOs parallel presence in invited, claimed and popular spaces for participation. The post-deinstitution…
What if an Investigative Journalist Calls? Media Relations in Social Work
This article aims to investigate to what extent social service organisations (SSOs) conceive news management as a means to promote organisational self-interest as opposed to achieving democratic openness. The study is based on a nationally representative telephone survey with persons responsible for communication or public relations in Swedish SSOs (n=91). Against the background of descriptive statistics, the aim is pursued by qualitative analysi…
Service user entrepreneurs and claims to authority – a case study in the mental health area
Mental health service user movements have historically to a large extent employed collective forms of mobilisation, where people with service user experience have joined in formal organisations or informal groups. Currently, expressions of service user engagement are changing, and we can now observe the growth of more individualised expressions, often enacted online. This article introduces the concept ‘service user entrepreneur’ (SUE), that rela…
Victim blaming as collateral damage: Professionals on Court Hearings in Cases of Rape, Assault, and Fraud
This study investigates legal professionals’ understanding of the attribution of moral guilt to complainants in court hearings, comparing rape, assault, and fraud cases in Sweden. Sixteen semi‐structured interviews were conducted with judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, and complainants’ counsels. The findings suggest that while professionals assert that attributions of moral guilt to complainants are rare, complainants may perceive blame due t…
Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)