Det ambivalenta ansvaret: Socialarbetarens berättelse om medkänsla i arbetet
(2021) SOPA63 20202School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Compassion is an important component in the social welfare practice. It is described as an emotion of feelings towards a person and an urge to act on behalf of that suffering person. However – not everyone is met with compassion.
This study presume that responsibility is one important component when it comes to the social workers feelings towards the client. Who gets compassion or not seems to be influenced by the persons urge to take responsibility for their life situation, but also by the social workers responsibility for their own feelings. To give the client compassion or not is a decision ought to be made by the social worker. Even though this is the case, there seems to be an ambivalence and a conflict of interest in terms of the... (More) - Compassion is an important component in the social welfare practice. It is described as an emotion of feelings towards a person and an urge to act on behalf of that suffering person. However – not everyone is met with compassion.
This study presume that responsibility is one important component when it comes to the social workers feelings towards the client. Who gets compassion or not seems to be influenced by the persons urge to take responsibility for their life situation, but also by the social workers responsibility for their own feelings. To give the client compassion or not is a decision ought to be made by the social worker. Even though this is the case, there seems to be an ambivalence and a conflict of interest in terms of the social workers feelings.
The aim of this study is to examine social workers experiences of compassion when meeting clients. Seven penetrating interviews were made with social workers at the social service departments of investigation and placement of children in care. Focus of the interviews was how compassion is expressed in the social workers narratives and also, how the social workers motivate their compassion, or lack of it. The interviews were studied with the aspects of the word’s responsibility and individualization from the perspective of constructivism. The result suggested that even though the participants in the study tend to shift focus of responsibility of compassion from the social worker to the clients, they also quite quickly withdraw the responsibility back to themselves. But even though the participants described an awareness of their own responsibility, the results showed an ambivalence of who is responsible and who has sole rights for the feelings of compassion, or the absence of it. (Less)
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- author
- Åkesson, Therese LU
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- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20202
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Compassion, responsibility, individualization
- language
- Swedish
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- 9041645
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abstract = {{Compassion is an important component in the social welfare practice. It is described as an emotion of feelings towards a person and an urge to act on behalf of that suffering person. However – not everyone is met with compassion.
This study presume that responsibility is one important component when it comes to the social workers feelings towards the client. Who gets compassion or not seems to be influenced by the persons urge to take responsibility for their life situation, but also by the social workers responsibility for their own feelings. To give the client compassion or not is a decision ought to be made by the social worker. Even though this is the case, there seems to be an ambivalence and a conflict of interest in terms of the social workers feelings.
The aim of this study is to examine social workers experiences of compassion when meeting clients. Seven penetrating interviews were made with social workers at the social service departments of investigation and placement of children in care. Focus of the interviews was how compassion is expressed in the social workers narratives and also, how the social workers motivate their compassion, or lack of it. The interviews were studied with the aspects of the word’s responsibility and individualization from the perspective of constructivism. The result suggested that even though the participants in the study tend to shift focus of responsibility of compassion from the social worker to the clients, they also quite quickly withdraw the responsibility back to themselves. But even though the participants described an awareness of their own responsibility, the results showed an ambivalence of who is responsible and who has sole rights for the feelings of compassion, or the absence of it.}},
author = {{Åkesson, Therese}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Det ambivalenta ansvaret: Socialarbetarens berättelse om medkänsla i arbetet}},
year = {{2021}},
}