Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21724752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Merja Tarvainen (0000-0001-6912-7294, Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, corresponding author), Mari Kivistö (0000-0002-0907-5573, University of Lapland) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 936-950 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-3250 • E-ISSN: 1741-3117 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14733250231214198 |
| OpenAlex | W4388488785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
This study explores discretion in social work with persons with disabilities. By drawing on a narrative social work approach, the study acknowledges narratives crucial for conducting social work. The research question was as follows: How do persons with disabilities as clients and social workers as professionals consider discretion and its consequences? The data consisted of clients’ and social workers’ written accounts about discretion and were analysed by deploying narrative inquiry with small stories approach. The grand narrative was about getting adequate services through appropriate discretion. Three small stories about everyday life, in/equality and the economy were told against the grand narrative. The study argues that discretion in social work with persons with disabilities is constructed through the available narrative resources
Discretion · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Engineering · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Human Rights and Social Work
Ethics and Values in Social Work
Small Stories Research
Street-Level Bureaucracy
The Power of Citizens and Professionals in Welfare Encounters
‘Through no fault of their own’
Daily life in National Disability Insurance Scheme times
Moral distress among social workers
Strategies of austerity used in needs assessments for personal assistance – changing Swedish social policy for persons with disabilities
Power and welfare
Models for professional judgement in social work
A conversational, small-story approach to narrative care for people with dementia living in care institutions
Organisational Rules and Discretion in Adult Social Work
Relational Autonomy and Service Choices in Social Worker–Client Conversations in an Outpatient Clinic for People Using Drugs
The Luhmannian approach to exclusion/inclusion and its relevance to Social Work
Agency and clientship in public encounters
State Agent or Citizen Agent
Small stories as a new perspective in narrative and identity analysis
Changing bodies, changing narratives and the consequences of tellability
Performance of Agency in Real-Life Encounters
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |