Betina Skov Jacobsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4605909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Betina Skov Jacobsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Betina Skov |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobsen |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSEN B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6215-8837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Too much or never enough
Adolescent illbeing is often framed as individualized mental health problems through medicalized language. Drawing on Durkheim’s concepts of regulation and disintegration and Prilleltensky’s theory of mattering, this article reconceptualizes adolescent ill-being as socially produced pathologies. Based on free-narrative interviews with adolescents across diverse social and structural contexts, we identify two central analytical axes, over-regulati…
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being
Mental ill-being among children and adolescents have increased in many high-income countries. The causes for this development are still unclear, but due to the scale of the problem, broader societal changes are likely to contribute. One of the societal level hypotheses–the “educational stressors hypotheses”–suggests that the transformation in many high-income countries from industrial to knowledge economies makes a well-educated workforce increas…
Not seeing the elephant in the room
Based on strong discourses of individualization, active welfare reforms in Denmark have changed the financial security of vulnerable families and increased numbers of children are growing up in poverty. This study investigates how poverty is reflected in frontline workers' categorizations of children considered vulnerable. Empirically, the study draws on qualitative group interviews with 56 informants and descriptive results from two surveys with…
Searching for “the usual suspects”
This study investigates the implementation of preventive policy targeting children. Based on longitudinal survey data we analyze how frontline workers assign meaning to core concepts of the policy and categorize the children and in this light how their exercise of discretion affects policy implementation. Many studies problematize the effects of limiting the discretion in the frontline. We identify a case where the policy is highly ambiguous, the…
Not seeing the elephant in the room
Based on strong discourses of individualization, active welfare reforms in Denmark have changed the financial security of vulnerable families and increased numbers of children are growing up in poverty. This study investigates how poverty is reflected in frontline workers' categorizations of children considered vulnerable. Empirically, the study draws on qualitative group interviews with 56 informants and descriptive results from two surveys with…
Searching for “the usual suspects”
This study investigates the implementation of preventive policy targeting children. Based on longitudinal survey data we analyze how frontline workers assign meaning to core concepts of the policy and categorize the children and in this light how their exercise of discretion affects policy implementation. Many studies problematize the effects of limiting the discretion in the frontline. We identify a case where the policy is highly ambiguous, the…
Searching for “the usual suspects”
This study investigates the implementation of preventive policy targeting children. Based on longitudinal survey data we analyze how frontline workers assign meaning to core concepts of the policy and categorize the children and in this light how their exercise of discretion affects policy implementation. Many studies problematize the effects of limiting the discretion in the frontline. We identify a case where the policy is highly ambiguous, the…
Not seeing the elephant in the room
Based on strong discourses of individualization, active welfare reforms in Denmark have changed the financial security of vulnerable families and increased numbers of children are growing up in poverty. This study investigates how poverty is reflected in frontline workers' categorizations of children considered vulnerable. Empirically, the study draws on qualitative group interviews with 56 informants and descriptive results from two surveys with…
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being
Mental ill-being among children and adolescents have increased in many high-income countries. The causes for this development are still unclear, but due to the scale of the problem, broader societal changes are likely to contribute. One of the societal level hypotheses–the “educational stressors hypotheses”–suggests that the transformation in many high-income countries from industrial to knowledge economies makes a well-educated workforce increas…
Too much or never enough
Adolescent illbeing is often framed as individualized mental health problems through medicalized language. Drawing on Durkheim’s concepts of regulation and disintegration and Prilleltensky’s theory of mattering, this article reconceptualizes adolescent ill-being as socially produced pathologies. Based on free-narrative interviews with adolescents across diverse social and structural contexts, we identify two central analytical axes, over-regulati…
Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Chemistry (1 work) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (1 work) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (1 work) · Danish (1 work) · Discretion (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Economics (1 work)