Clara Iversen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Iversen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara |
| FAMILY NAME | Iversen |
| SIGNATURE | IVERSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6941-5760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adoptee Testimonials of Suffering—Transnational Adoptees and the Issue of Suicidality in Swedish Media Texts, 1988–2025
For well over two decades, quantitative research has repeatedly found that suicide attempts and suicides are up to four times more common among transnational adoptees compared to the general population in Sweden. Even so, the Swedish healthcare sector and society at large have failed to address the vulnerable situation of the more than 60,000 foreign-born adoptees in the country. This qualitative study is the first of its kind and draws on accoun…
Investigative Child Interviews Within Child Welfare Services and Children's Voices About Violence and Fear
This study explores structured investigative child interviews developed to be used in the context of child welfare risk assessments: the ‘iRiSk’ structured risk and safety interviews for children subjected to violence in the family. The aims were to study how children manage leading elements of structured interview questions and if this interview guide can aid children in talking about experiences of violence and/or fear. Data consisted of 20 aud…
The morality of anxiety
Research in discursive psychology examines naturally occurring interactions to see how people deal with psychological matters, such as emotions.In the current article, we use examples from a study conducted in a helpline setting to illustrate how discursive psychology provides insights into the moral dimensions of anxiety.Although individuals may use expressions of worry to emphasize the seriousness of a problem in their lives, they also counter …
Playful framings of social robots in dementia care
Research on social robots in dementia care has focused on their effects, for example in relation to the patients’ wellbeing or the care-givers’ working environment. Such approaches to social robots treat them as stable objects with a singular function. Combining social gerontology with social studies of science, the current study offers a new angle by asking: How do patients and care-givers in care homes for older people establish a shared defini…
Robotic misinformation in dementia care
Robot animals, designed to mimic living beings, pose ethical challenges in the context of caring for vulnerable patients, specifically concerning deception. This paper explores how emotions become a resource for dealing with the misinformative nature of robot animals in dementia care homes. Based on observations of encounters between residents, care workers, and robot animals, the study shows how persons with dementia approach the ambiguous robot…
Can robots lie? A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care
Robotic animals are designed to resemble real, living animals, but at the same time, dementia care guidelines and policies often emphasize the value of transparency in relation to robots-people should not be led to believe that robots have capacities that they in fact lack. However, it is not obvious how to separate truth from lies in everyday care practice. Based on participant observations and interviews with certified assistant nurses and nurs…
Dealing with callers' racialised talk in suicide preventive helplines
This article investigates how mental health counsellors on helplines in Sweden deal with racism from callers who self-categorise as non-racialised. Previous studies have identified racism as a problem in health care interactions, but there is limited knowledge about the features of racialised talk and how staff respond. In this study, we use conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis to examine racialised talk in 17 audiorecorde…
Making robots matter in dementia care
While previous research studies have focused on either caregivers' or residents' perception and use of social robots, this article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of joint activities in triadic human-robot interaction. The symptomatology of dementia creates an asymmetrical relation wherein the impetus to employ a robot often originates from the caregiver. Drawing on field work and video recorded interactions in dementia care homes…
Robotic Animals in Dementia Care
Robotic animals in the shape of cats, dogs, and seals are increasingly used in dementia care. The robots are built to respond to users’ touch and talk for various purposes such as calming, activating, or entertaining patients. Drawing on media representations, marketing materials, reports of experts, and interviews with care workers we take a closer look at the ideas of animality that shape the robots and their application in care organizations. …
The uses of small talk in social work
Welfare organisations across the world are becoming more streamlined with less time for building relationships with clients, rendering non-governmental organisations increasingly important for welfare provision. In this paper, we investigate an understudied area in social work: the small talk through which volunteer organisations conduct social work tasks in interaction with clients. The data consist of 108 phone calls to a helpline that offers s…
Conversation analysis in social work research
Given the emphasis on communication in social work, the empirical study of social work interactions is an important area for research. By examining recordings of naturally occurring social interaction and analysing participants’ practices in close detail, conversation analysis (CA) provides rigorous resources for understanding the practical challenges and opportunities of professional intervention. Since the origins of CA in the 1970s, this appro…
Approaching institutional boundaries
En människa bland andra
Denna artikel undersöker hur äldre människor begripliggör sin situation i telefonsamtal till en stödlinje några månader in i covid-19-pandemin. Genom att använda ett vardagssociologiskt ramverk för att analysera inringares olika sätt att i samspel med stödlinjens volontärer förstå krisen, nyanserar artikeln nuvarande kunskap om äldre människors situation. Den tematiska analysen visar att inringarna begripliggör krisen i förhållande till sociala r…
Making sense of experiences in suicide helpline calls
The question of how people make sense of experiences in relation to health is central to medical sociology and lies at the heart of suicide helpline practice. This article draws on a corpus of 900 audio-recorded suicide helpline calls to examine how call-takers respond to the challenge of reframing callers' suicidal ideation while still treating their experiences as legitimate. Conversation analysis of a subselection of calls revealed two call-ta…
Respecifying uncertainty in pupil health team collaboration
The article examines professionals’ displays of uncertainty in their reports of pupils’ school problems during Swedish Pupil Health Team (PHT) meetings. PHT-meetings reflect an effort to address pupils’ problems through multi-professional teamwork, involving, e.g. counsellors, nurses, and special education teachers. Barriers to such collaboration have been attributed to professionals’ difficulties to understand one another because they operate wi…
Traffic risk work with sleepy patients
In this article, we aim to contribute to the emerging field of risk-work studies by examining the relationship between risk rationality and risk practices in nurses’ conversations with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea patients about traffic risks. Legislation in Sweden towards traffic risk involves clinicians making risk assessment of patients prone to falling asleep while driving. In contrast to an overall care rationale, this means that the health of t…
Now or never
Sociological research on medical discussions of lifestyle suggests that smoking patients may be seen as knowingly causing their medical problems. Therefore, it may be interactionally problematic for doctors to raise the issue of smoking cessation in relation to patients’ serious health problems. While a serious illness can be expected to bring to the fore the relevance of smoking cessation advice, it may also give rise to questions about patients…
Predetermined participation
This article examines how ideals of children's participation and model consistency compete in social workers' accounts of intervention outcomes in 35 evaluation interviews in Sweden. Using discursive psychology, the analysis demonstrates how the social workers rely on category-based accounts: They describe willing children as competent, unwilling children as developing, and children attempting to rule in counselling as problematic. The interviews…
Recordability
Different areas of child welfare work call for psychometric measurement to replace professionals’ judgements with objective numbers. Using data from a national Swedish evaluation of interventions for abused children, the present article investigates child interviewees’ resistance to constraints in psychometric questions. The article contributes to studies of how psychology operates in institutional settings; it looks into the discursive productio…
Approaching institutional boundaries
Recordability
Different areas of child welfare work call for psychometric measurement to replace professionals’ judgements with objective numbers. Using data from a national Swedish evaluation of interventions for abused children, the present article investigates child interviewees’ resistance to constraints in psychometric questions. The article contributes to studies of how psychology operates in institutional settings; it looks into the discursive productio…
Predetermined participation
This article examines how ideals of children's participation and model consistency compete in social workers' accounts of intervention outcomes in 35 evaluation interviews in Sweden. Using discursive psychology, the analysis demonstrates how the social workers rely on category-based accounts: They describe willing children as competent, unwilling children as developing, and children attempting to rule in counselling as problematic. The interviews…
Making robots matter in dementia care
While previous research studies have focused on either caregivers' or residents' perception and use of social robots, this article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of joint activities in triadic human-robot interaction. The symptomatology of dementia creates an asymmetrical relation wherein the impetus to employ a robot often originates from the caregiver. Drawing on field work and video recorded interactions in dementia care homes…
Now or never
Sociological research on medical discussions of lifestyle suggests that smoking patients may be seen as knowingly causing their medical problems. Therefore, it may be interactionally problematic for doctors to raise the issue of smoking cessation in relation to patients’ serious health problems. While a serious illness can be expected to bring to the fore the relevance of smoking cessation advice, it may also give rise to questions about patients…
Making sense of experiences in suicide helpline calls
The question of how people make sense of experiences in relation to health is central to medical sociology and lies at the heart of suicide helpline practice. This article draws on a corpus of 900 audio-recorded suicide helpline calls to examine how call-takers respond to the challenge of reframing callers' suicidal ideation while still treating their experiences as legitimate. Conversation analysis of a subselection of calls revealed two call-ta…
Can robots lie? A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care
Robotic animals are designed to resemble real, living animals, but at the same time, dementia care guidelines and policies often emphasize the value of transparency in relation to robots-people should not be led to believe that robots have capacities that they in fact lack. However, it is not obvious how to separate truth from lies in everyday care practice. Based on participant observations and interviews with certified assistant nurses and nurs…
Recordability
Different areas of child welfare work call for psychometric measurement to replace professionals’ judgements with objective numbers. Using data from a national Swedish evaluation of interventions for abused children, the present article investigates child interviewees’ resistance to constraints in psychometric questions. The article contributes to studies of how psychology operates in institutional settings; it looks into the discursive productio…
Predetermined participation
This article examines how ideals of children's participation and model consistency compete in social workers' accounts of intervention outcomes in 35 evaluation interviews in Sweden. Using discursive psychology, the analysis demonstrates how the social workers rely on category-based accounts: They describe willing children as competent, unwilling children as developing, and children attempting to rule in counselling as problematic. The interviews…
Now or never
Sociological research on medical discussions of lifestyle suggests that smoking patients may be seen as knowingly causing their medical problems. Therefore, it may be interactionally problematic for doctors to raise the issue of smoking cessation in relation to patients’ serious health problems. While a serious illness can be expected to bring to the fore the relevance of smoking cessation advice, it may also give rise to questions about patients…
Traffic risk work with sleepy patients
In this article, we aim to contribute to the emerging field of risk-work studies by examining the relationship between risk rationality and risk practices in nurses’ conversations with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea patients about traffic risks. Legislation in Sweden towards traffic risk involves clinicians making risk assessment of patients prone to falling asleep while driving. In contrast to an overall care rationale, this means that the health of t…
Respecifying uncertainty in pupil health team collaboration
The article examines professionals’ displays of uncertainty in their reports of pupils’ school problems during Swedish Pupil Health Team (PHT) meetings. PHT-meetings reflect an effort to address pupils’ problems through multi-professional teamwork, involving, e.g. counsellors, nurses, and special education teachers. Barriers to such collaboration have been attributed to professionals’ difficulties to understand one another because they operate wi…
En människa bland andra
Denna artikel undersöker hur äldre människor begripliggör sin situation i telefonsamtal till en stödlinje några månader in i covid-19-pandemin. Genom att använda ett vardagssociologiskt ramverk för att analysera inringares olika sätt att i samspel med stödlinjens volontärer förstå krisen, nyanserar artikeln nuvarande kunskap om äldre människors situation. Den tematiska analysen visar att inringarna begripliggör krisen i förhållande till sociala r…
Making sense of experiences in suicide helpline calls
The question of how people make sense of experiences in relation to health is central to medical sociology and lies at the heart of suicide helpline practice. This article draws on a corpus of 900 audio-recorded suicide helpline calls to examine how call-takers respond to the challenge of reframing callers' suicidal ideation while still treating their experiences as legitimate. Conversation analysis of a subselection of calls revealed two call-ta…
Robotic Animals in Dementia Care
Robotic animals in the shape of cats, dogs, and seals are increasingly used in dementia care. The robots are built to respond to users’ touch and talk for various purposes such as calming, activating, or entertaining patients. Drawing on media representations, marketing materials, reports of experts, and interviews with care workers we take a closer look at the ideas of animality that shape the robots and their application in care organizations. …
The uses of small talk in social work
Welfare organisations across the world are becoming more streamlined with less time for building relationships with clients, rendering non-governmental organisations increasingly important for welfare provision. In this paper, we investigate an understudied area in social work: the small talk through which volunteer organisations conduct social work tasks in interaction with clients. The data consist of 108 phone calls to a helpline that offers s…
Conversation analysis in social work research
Given the emphasis on communication in social work, the empirical study of social work interactions is an important area for research. By examining recordings of naturally occurring social interaction and analysing participants’ practices in close detail, conversation analysis (CA) provides rigorous resources for understanding the practical challenges and opportunities of professional intervention. Since the origins of CA in the 1970s, this appro…
Approaching institutional boundaries
Robotic misinformation in dementia care
Robot animals, designed to mimic living beings, pose ethical challenges in the context of caring for vulnerable patients, specifically concerning deception. This paper explores how emotions become a resource for dealing with the misinformative nature of robot animals in dementia care homes. Based on observations of encounters between residents, care workers, and robot animals, the study shows how persons with dementia approach the ambiguous robot…
Can robots lie? A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care
Robotic animals are designed to resemble real, living animals, but at the same time, dementia care guidelines and policies often emphasize the value of transparency in relation to robots-people should not be led to believe that robots have capacities that they in fact lack. However, it is not obvious how to separate truth from lies in everyday care practice. Based on participant observations and interviews with certified assistant nurses and nurs…
Dealing with callers' racialised talk in suicide preventive helplines
This article investigates how mental health counsellors on helplines in Sweden deal with racism from callers who self-categorise as non-racialised. Previous studies have identified racism as a problem in health care interactions, but there is limited knowledge about the features of racialised talk and how staff respond. In this study, we use conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis to examine racialised talk in 17 audiorecorde…
Making robots matter in dementia care
While previous research studies have focused on either caregivers' or residents' perception and use of social robots, this article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of joint activities in triadic human-robot interaction. The symptomatology of dementia creates an asymmetrical relation wherein the impetus to employ a robot often originates from the caregiver. Drawing on field work and video recorded interactions in dementia care homes…
Playful framings of social robots in dementia care
Research on social robots in dementia care has focused on their effects, for example in relation to the patients’ wellbeing or the care-givers’ working environment. Such approaches to social robots treat them as stable objects with a singular function. Combining social gerontology with social studies of science, the current study offers a new angle by asking: How do patients and care-givers in care homes for older people establish a shared defini…
Adoptee Testimonials of Suffering—Transnational Adoptees and the Issue of Suicidality in Swedish Media Texts, 1988–2025
For well over two decades, quantitative research has repeatedly found that suicide attempts and suicides are up to four times more common among transnational adoptees compared to the general population in Sweden. Even so, the Swedish healthcare sector and society at large have failed to address the vulnerable situation of the more than 60,000 foreign-born adoptees in the country. This qualitative study is the first of its kind and draws on accoun…
Investigative Child Interviews Within Child Welfare Services and Children's Voices About Violence and Fear
This study explores structured investigative child interviews developed to be used in the context of child welfare risk assessments: the ‘iRiSk’ structured risk and safety interviews for children subjected to violence in the family. The aims were to study how children manage leading elements of structured interview questions and if this interview guide can aid children in talking about experiences of violence and/or fear. Data consisted of 20 aud…
The morality of anxiety
Research in discursive psychology examines naturally occurring interactions to see how people deal with psychological matters, such as emotions.In the current article, we use examples from a study conducted in a helpline setting to illustrate how discursive psychology provides insights into the moral dimensions of anxiety.Although individuals may use expressions of worry to emphasize the seriousness of a problem in their lives, they also counter …
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Conversation (6 works) · Dementia (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)