Hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorernas legitimering - En kvalitativ studie om legitimationens faktiska innebörd
(2019) SOPA63 20182School of Social Work
- Abstract
- As of June 2019, medical health care social workers will become eligible for authorization, thereby putting an end to an over 50-year-long debate. The aim of this study was to investigate this debate and how it has been expressed in various texts, foremost legal documents and professional journal articles. Discourse analysis was used as a methodological tool in order to examine explicit and implicit notions used as arguments for authorization in the debate. The study found that two explicit notions were especially salient in the data. Legal documents emphasized patient safety, whereas professional journal articles emphasized professional status. We argue that patient safety and professional status can be viewed as an expression of the... (More)
- As of June 2019, medical health care social workers will become eligible for authorization, thereby putting an end to an over 50-year-long debate. The aim of this study was to investigate this debate and how it has been expressed in various texts, foremost legal documents and professional journal articles. Discourse analysis was used as a methodological tool in order to examine explicit and implicit notions used as arguments for authorization in the debate. The study found that two explicit notions were especially salient in the data. Legal documents emphasized patient safety, whereas professional journal articles emphasized professional status. We argue that patient safety and professional status can be viewed as an expression of the notion of trust, implicitly present in the data. The study found that authorization facilitates trust in the competence of medical health care social worker. This, both in terms of the trust in safety for the patient within the patient-professional relationship, and the trust in the legitimacy of the profession among neighboring professions. (Less)
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- author
- Fredriksson, Elin LU and Ericsson, Emma LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20182
- year
- 2019
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Authorization, Medical healthcare social worker, patient, professional status, qualification, trust.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8967945
- date added to LUP
- 2019-01-31 10:22:06
- date last changed
- 2019-01-31 10:22:06
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abstract = {{As of June 2019, medical health care social workers will become eligible for authorization, thereby putting an end to an over 50-year-long debate. The aim of this study was to investigate this debate and how it has been expressed in various texts, foremost legal documents and professional journal articles. Discourse analysis was used as a methodological tool in order to examine explicit and implicit notions used as arguments for authorization in the debate. The study found that two explicit notions were especially salient in the data. Legal documents emphasized patient safety, whereas professional journal articles emphasized professional status. We argue that patient safety and professional status can be viewed as an expression of the notion of trust, implicitly present in the data. The study found that authorization facilitates trust in the competence of medical health care social worker. This, both in terms of the trust in safety for the patient within the patient-professional relationship, and the trust in the legitimacy of the profession among neighboring professions.}},
author = {{Fredriksson, Elin and Ericsson, Emma}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorernas legitimering - En kvalitativ studie om legitimationens faktiska innebörd}},
year = {{2019}},
}