Siv Oltedal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siv Oltedal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siv |
| FAMILY NAME | Oltedal |
| SIGNATURE | OLTEDAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stavanger |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Work inclusion as part of social work
Continuities and differences in a Norwegian welfare service context
Welfare and social work aim for social justice and self-determination, and the work is sensitive to both its institutional context and to the worker-client relationship. In this article, we re-analyse and compare two sets of collected data (Oltedal, 2000; Olsen, 2022). The data consists of institutional talks between frontline workers and clients in a Norwegian welfare-to-work-service context; the social services (Sosialkontoret) in 1992, and an …
Use of Vignettes in an International Comparative Social Work Research
The aim of this article is to reflect on the strengths and challenges in qualitative comparative research on personal social services. The specific methodological approach that these reflections emerge from is the application of case vignettes in focus group interviews with social workers, working in different welfare regimes. We describe the process of vignette construction and implementation in focus group interviews, and relate this to finding…
Professional work in the balance between care and control
Listen to marginal voices
Social work and cultural diversity
The complexities in social work practice
Special Issue on Diversity and Tensions in Social Work
Social workers understanding of extended families position in child welfare in Lithuania, Chile and Norway
Child welfare services around the world deal with families and family complexities. The study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway explores how social workers define family and more specific the position of extended families within child welfare and thus indicate contextual differences and similarities. In the data collection, five focus groups were included: one Lithuanian (eight participants), two Chilean (with two and two participants) and two Nor…
Work division processes in social work with Cuban and Norwegian families
EnglishThis paper explores the differences and similarities in three social work processes as viewed by social workers in Norway and Cuba. Contrasting social work processes in these exemplars of de-familialized and familialized welfare contexts offer insight into where social work practices can be governed by international and universal policy, and where context specific national policies may be more appropriate. A qualitative study and thematic …
Special issue on Diversity and Tensions in Social Work
Private and public families
EnglishSocial workers around the world work with families and family complexities in their everyday practice. In this cross-national study, we explore social workers’ family intervention practices related to family definitions and functions, and how social workers balance children’s and parents’ rights and social policies in the proper context. Data derives from focus group interviews with child welfare workers from Norway, Lithuania, Chile and E…
Recognizing the ‘big things’ and the ‘little things’ in child protection cases
In this article, we explore how ‘family’ is conceptualized and negotiated in a Mexican and a Chilean child protection institution. We draw on empirical material from two qualitative studies, employing a multi‐method approach. By using a theoretical framework from family sociology, we explore how ‘family’ is done and displayed by families of children in residential care despite socio‐economic, structural and institutional constraints. These displa…
Constructing a vignette for qualitative comparative family research
Essay
Social work and families in child welfare in Malawi
This article discusses professional discretion in relation to placing a child outside the family, as understood by Malawian social workers. The article is a product of an exploratory study covering different aspects of social work practice with children and families in Malawi. It is based on focus group discussions with practicing social workers that were conducted using a vignette. This article describes how social workers handle child protectio…
Local Family Definitions Matter
Families in contexts
Editorial: Families in contexts
Gazing at welfare, gender and agency in post-socialist countries
Gazing at welfare, gender and agency in post-socialist countries, edited by Maija Jappinen, Meri Kulmla and Aino Saarinen, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 344 pp., ISBN 978-1-4438-2581-8 W...
Julia Kristeva og Eivind Engebretsen (red.)
Reflections upon practices are important in Social Work
Editorial: Reflections upon practices are important in Social Work
An Institutional Comparison of Child Protection Systems in Australia and Norway Focused on Workforce Retention
By any standard, child protection work is a demanding field of social services work. Throughout much of the post-industrial world, child protection agencies face significant problems in recruiting and retaining front-line staff with the abilities required to undertake this often complex and stressful work. The capacity of these agencies to achieve their social policy objectives can be compromised by workforce instability. Despite a growing body o…
Close but not too close. Distant but not too distant
In this explorative and comparative article a suitable social distance in the client-social worker relationship will be in focus. When do clients need a social worker “as if she is a friend” and when do they appreciate a professional “as if she is a stranger”? How does context have an impact on what we see as legitimate relationships? We will be listening to voices on these issues from poor single mothers and social workers in five countries – Au…
"Orientation" as a Sensitizing Concept in Social Work
Studying institutional discourses between clients and social workers could strengthen reflections on social work practices by asking: What definitions of the situation do the partners talk from? What content do the partners wish to communicate and could there be considerable differences between the two of them? Why are the partners using specific forms of talk and what does that meta-communicate? Are they developing working agreements and tuning …
Welcome to Journal of Comparative Social Work
Editorial
An Institutional Comparison of Child Protection Systems in Australia and Norway Focused on Workforce Retention
By any standard, child protection work is a demanding field of social services work. Throughout much of the post-industrial world, child protection agencies face significant problems in recruiting and retaining front-line staff with the abilities required to undertake this often complex and stressful work. The capacity of these agencies to achieve their social policy objectives can be compromised by workforce instability. Despite a growing body o…
Private and public families
EnglishSocial workers around the world work with families and family complexities in their everyday practice. In this cross-national study, we explore social workers’ family intervention practices related to family definitions and functions, and how social workers balance children’s and parents’ rights and social policies in the proper context. Data derives from focus group interviews with child welfare workers from Norway, Lithuania, Chile and E…
Constructing a vignette for qualitative comparative family research
Essay
Welcome to Journal of Comparative Social Work
Editorial
Recognizing the ‘big things’ and the ‘little things’ in child protection cases
In this article, we explore how ‘family’ is conceptualized and negotiated in a Mexican and a Chilean child protection institution. We draw on empirical material from two qualitative studies, employing a multi‐method approach. By using a theoretical framework from family sociology, we explore how ‘family’ is done and displayed by families of children in residential care despite socio‐economic, structural and institutional constraints. These displa…
Social work and cultural diversity
Social workers understanding of extended families position in child welfare in Lithuania, Chile and Norway
Child welfare services around the world deal with families and family complexities. The study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway explores how social workers define family and more specific the position of extended families within child welfare and thus indicate contextual differences and similarities. In the data collection, five focus groups were included: one Lithuanian (eight participants), two Chilean (with two and two participants) and two Nor…
Work division processes in social work with Cuban and Norwegian families
EnglishThis paper explores the differences and similarities in three social work processes as viewed by social workers in Norway and Cuba. Contrasting social work processes in these exemplars of de-familialized and familialized welfare contexts offer insight into where social work practices can be governed by international and universal policy, and where context specific national policies may be more appropriate. A qualitative study and thematic …
Social work and families in child welfare in Malawi
This article discusses professional discretion in relation to placing a child outside the family, as understood by Malawian social workers. The article is a product of an exploratory study covering different aspects of social work practice with children and families in Malawi. It is based on focus group discussions with practicing social workers that were conducted using a vignette. This article describes how social workers handle child protectio…
Welcome to Journal of Comparative Social Work
Editorial
"Orientation" as a Sensitizing Concept in Social Work
Studying institutional discourses between clients and social workers could strengthen reflections on social work practices by asking: What definitions of the situation do the partners talk from? What content do the partners wish to communicate and could there be considerable differences between the two of them? Why are the partners using specific forms of talk and what does that meta-communicate? Are they developing working agreements and tuning …
Close but not too close. Distant but not too distant
In this explorative and comparative article a suitable social distance in the client-social worker relationship will be in focus. When do clients need a social worker “as if she is a friend” and when do they appreciate a professional “as if she is a stranger”? How does context have an impact on what we see as legitimate relationships? We will be listening to voices on these issues from poor single mothers and social workers in five countries – Au…
Reflections upon practices are important in Social Work
Editorial: Reflections upon practices are important in Social Work
An Institutional Comparison of Child Protection Systems in Australia and Norway Focused on Workforce Retention
By any standard, child protection work is a demanding field of social services work. Throughout much of the post-industrial world, child protection agencies face significant problems in recruiting and retaining front-line staff with the abilities required to undertake this often complex and stressful work. The capacity of these agencies to achieve their social policy objectives can be compromised by workforce instability. Despite a growing body o…
Gazing at welfare, gender and agency in post-socialist countries
Gazing at welfare, gender and agency in post-socialist countries, edited by Maija Jappinen, Meri Kulmla and Aino Saarinen, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 344 pp., ISBN 978-1-4438-2581-8 W...
Julia Kristeva og Eivind Engebretsen (red.)
Families in contexts
Editorial: Families in contexts
Constructing a vignette for qualitative comparative family research
Essay
Social work and families in child welfare in Malawi
This article discusses professional discretion in relation to placing a child outside the family, as understood by Malawian social workers. The article is a product of an exploratory study covering different aspects of social work practice with children and families in Malawi. It is based on focus group discussions with practicing social workers that were conducted using a vignette. This article describes how social workers handle child protectio…
Local Family Definitions Matter
Recognizing the ‘big things’ and the ‘little things’ in child protection cases
In this article, we explore how ‘family’ is conceptualized and negotiated in a Mexican and a Chilean child protection institution. We draw on empirical material from two qualitative studies, employing a multi‐method approach. By using a theoretical framework from family sociology, we explore how ‘family’ is done and displayed by families of children in residential care despite socio‐economic, structural and institutional constraints. These displa…
Work division processes in social work with Cuban and Norwegian families
EnglishThis paper explores the differences and similarities in three social work processes as viewed by social workers in Norway and Cuba. Contrasting social work processes in these exemplars of de-familialized and familialized welfare contexts offer insight into where social work practices can be governed by international and universal policy, and where context specific national policies may be more appropriate. A qualitative study and thematic …
Special issue on Diversity and Tensions in Social Work
Private and public families
EnglishSocial workers around the world work with families and family complexities in their everyday practice. In this cross-national study, we explore social workers’ family intervention practices related to family definitions and functions, and how social workers balance children’s and parents’ rights and social policies in the proper context. Data derives from focus group interviews with child welfare workers from Norway, Lithuania, Chile and E…
Special Issue on Diversity and Tensions in Social Work
Social workers understanding of extended families position in child welfare in Lithuania, Chile and Norway
Child welfare services around the world deal with families and family complexities. The study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway explores how social workers define family and more specific the position of extended families within child welfare and thus indicate contextual differences and similarities. In the data collection, five focus groups were included: one Lithuanian (eight participants), two Chilean (with two and two participants) and two Nor…
The complexities in social work practice
Social work and cultural diversity
Use of Vignettes in an International Comparative Social Work Research
The aim of this article is to reflect on the strengths and challenges in qualitative comparative research on personal social services. The specific methodological approach that these reflections emerge from is the application of case vignettes in focus group interviews with social workers, working in different welfare regimes. We describe the process of vignette construction and implementation in focus group interviews, and relate this to finding…
Professional work in the balance between care and control
Listen to marginal voices
Work inclusion as part of social work
Continuities and differences in a Norwegian welfare service context
Welfare and social work aim for social justice and self-determination, and the work is sensitive to both its institutional context and to the worker-client relationship. In this article, we re-analyse and compare two sets of collected data (Oltedal, 2000; Olsen, 2022). The data consists of institutional talks between frontline workers and clients in a Norwegian welfare-to-work-service context; the social services (Sosialkontoret) in 1992, and an …
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