En legitimerad framtid : Hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorers syn på att som enda socionomprofession beviljas legitimation
(2020) SOPA63 20201School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was how healthcare counselors view their right to professional certification. In order to accomplish this purpose, we chose a qualitative method consisting of nine semi-structured interviews. Each interview was held over the phone. Eight of the participants were currently working in the healthcare system while one was working as a school counselor. During the process of analysis boundaries, jurisdiction and discourse were the central theoretical concepts. The result revealed that healthcare counselors justified their right to certification by creating boundaries between their own profession and that of other social workers, and particularly that of school counselors. Their own profession was portrayed as meeting... (More)
- The purpose of this study was how healthcare counselors view their right to professional certification. In order to accomplish this purpose, we chose a qualitative method consisting of nine semi-structured interviews. Each interview was held over the phone. Eight of the participants were currently working in the healthcare system while one was working as a school counselor. During the process of analysis boundaries, jurisdiction and discourse were the central theoretical concepts. The result revealed that healthcare counselors justified their right to certification by creating boundaries between their own profession and that of other social workers, and particularly that of school counselors. Their own profession was portrayed as meeting people in crisis and as treatment based, as supposed to the more mundane work of school counselors. At the same time, a discourse of exclusion unfolded in healthcare counselors’ arguments. Finally, the results showed that the certification was given the following attributes; a more explicit description of the profession, competence, status, and being able to work safely with the patients. Whereas previous research has described healthcare counselors' relationships with the medical staff, this study showed that certification may bring new dynamics to the field of social work. (Less)
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- author
- Danielsson, Veronika LU and Örnklint, Hannah
- supervisor
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- Tove Harnett LU
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Healthcare counselor, professional certification, boundary work, professionalism, social work
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9017449
- date added to LUP
- 2020-06-16 10:04:49
- date last changed
- 2020-06-22 09:01:28
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abstract = {{The purpose of this study was how healthcare counselors view their right to professional certification. In order to accomplish this purpose, we chose a qualitative method consisting of nine semi-structured interviews. Each interview was held over the phone. Eight of the participants were currently working in the healthcare system while one was working as a school counselor. During the process of analysis boundaries, jurisdiction and discourse were the central theoretical concepts. The result revealed that healthcare counselors justified their right to certification by creating boundaries between their own profession and that of other social workers, and particularly that of school counselors. Their own profession was portrayed as meeting people in crisis and as treatment based, as supposed to the more mundane work of school counselors. At the same time, a discourse of exclusion unfolded in healthcare counselors’ arguments. Finally, the results showed that the certification was given the following attributes; a more explicit description of the profession, competence, status, and being able to work safely with the patients. Whereas previous research has described healthcare counselors' relationships with the medical staff, this study showed that certification may bring new dynamics to the field of social work.}},
author = {{Danielsson, Veronika and Örnklint, Hannah}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{En legitimerad framtid : Hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorers syn på att som enda socionomprofession beviljas legitimation}},
year = {{2020}},
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