Service user involvement in Swedish mental health and social care
An analysis of ideological dilemmas and subject positions in a collaboration context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12606172 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Mossberg (0000-0002-8501-1088, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 716-730 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1457 • E-ISSN: 1468-2664 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691457.2015.1081586 |
| OpenAlex | W1879968259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Service user involvement is steadily on the rise, bringing questions of tokenism and power imbalance. This article studies service user organisation representatives (URs) and human service organisation representatives (HSORs) in mental health and social care strategic collaboration councils through qualitative interviews and participant observations. Talk on service user involvement through UR is studied through the discourse analytical concepts of ideological dilemmas and subject positions. The participants' constructions, actions, and rhetoric therein are considered. Findings show participants' oscillation between standpoints within two main themes: the ideal vs. the inadequate UR and balancing power positions. The first theme discusses the missing perspective brought by UR narrations in terms of expected conduct and awareness of organisational conditions. This also concerns service users' positions as being simultaneously dependent and independent. The second theme concerns the implicit UR influence and the explicit HSOR influence. User involvement through URs is construed as a needed narration told by citizens with rights and responsibilities, while conditioned, as the UR is a layperson with mental health problems. The actions accompanying such constructions cause HSORs to balance between paternalism and professionalism and URs between adaptation and using their voice. In this, the URs have a stronger influence than acknowledged
Context (archaeology · Ideology · Mental health · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |