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Ett behandlingsområde under förändring? - En diskursanalys av behandlingspersonals tal om missbruk och missbruksbehandling

Andersson, Jenny LU and Malm, Ida LU (2014) SOPA63 20132
School of Social Work
Abstract
Our study explore treatment personnel’s discourse concerning addiction and addiction treatment within a range of treatment approaches and how this affects the development of the field, in this effort an analytical discourse approach is applied. In the study two primary discourses emerge, the harm reduction discourse and the treatment discourse. Our conclusion is that these two are engaged in a struggle for interpretationrights and legitimacy within the addiction treatment field. In spite of this discursive struggle a sympathetic aspiration is reflected in the treatment personnel’s talk about helping those clients who in the traditional sense are not “drug free” and subsequently are labeled “as impossible”. This can be understood in light... (More)
Our study explore treatment personnel’s discourse concerning addiction and addiction treatment within a range of treatment approaches and how this affects the development of the field, in this effort an analytical discourse approach is applied. In the study two primary discourses emerge, the harm reduction discourse and the treatment discourse. Our conclusion is that these two are engaged in a struggle for interpretationrights and legitimacy within the addiction treatment field. In spite of this discursive struggle a sympathetic aspiration is reflected in the treatment personnel’s talk about helping those clients who in the traditional sense are not “drug free” and subsequently are labeled “as impossible”. This can be understood in light of the two discourses beginning to interact with each other and thus needing to renegotiate the treatment field’s configuration as a whole as well as which treatment programs are legitimized. (Less)
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author
Andersson, Jenny LU and Malm, Ida LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPA63 20132
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
drug addiction, discourse analysis, addiction treatment, institutional identities, categorization
language
Swedish
id
4358977
date added to LUP
2014-03-19 11:58:16
date last changed
2014-03-19 11:58:16
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  abstract     = {{Our study explore treatment personnel’s discourse concerning addiction and addiction treatment within a range of treatment approaches and how this affects the development of the field, in this effort an analytical discourse approach is applied. In the study two primary discourses emerge, the harm reduction discourse and the treatment discourse. Our conclusion is that these two are engaged in a struggle for interpretationrights and legitimacy within the addiction treatment field. In spite of this discursive struggle a sympathetic aspiration is reflected in the treatment personnel’s talk about helping those clients who in the traditional sense are not “drug free” and subsequently are labeled “as impossible”. This can be understood in light of the two discourses beginning to interact with each other and thus needing to renegotiate the treatment field’s configuration as a whole as well as which treatment programs are legitimized.}},
  author       = {{Andersson, Jenny and Malm, Ida}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Ett behandlingsområde under förändring? - En diskursanalys av behandlingspersonals tal om missbruk och missbruksbehandling}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}