Den legitimerade sjukhuskuratorn: En studie om legitimationens effekt och inverkan
(2025) SOPB63 20242School of Social Work
- Abstract
- As of 2019 Swedish health care social work has received authorization and its effect has since been discussed. To become an authorized healthcare social worker today you are expected to complete a one-year academic specialization on top of your Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, which has been met by a mainly positive yet mixed reception. This study aims to understand the authorization's impact on the social workers' work situation, as well as its expectation of knowledge and status. We, Berglund and Kamunen, aimed through interviews with six somatic hospital-based social workers understand how their jurisdiction, as professional boundaries and identity, came to be affected and what they expect of the future. Through our analysis, it became... (More)
- As of 2019 Swedish health care social work has received authorization and its effect has since been discussed. To become an authorized healthcare social worker today you are expected to complete a one-year academic specialization on top of your Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, which has been met by a mainly positive yet mixed reception. This study aims to understand the authorization's impact on the social workers' work situation, as well as its expectation of knowledge and status. We, Berglund and Kamunen, aimed through interviews with six somatic hospital-based social workers understand how their jurisdiction, as professional boundaries and identity, came to be affected and what they expect of the future. Through our analysis, it became apparent that our interviewees had experienced minimal immediate effect of the authorization in terms of their work situation. The fact that those being authorized could come to lose their authorization was viewed as an immediate aspect which is seen as positive about patient safety concerns. The change in status ascribed to the authorization was perceived as relatively low, mainly because the symbolic rise in status does not outweigh factors such as an absence of raised salaries. A consequence of the authorization has been presented in how the field is expected to be split between authorized and non-authorized social workers. All in all the authorization is viewed as positive in a way that the majority of Swedish health care professions are authorized. If the authorization will have any future effect on health care social work has varied expectations through our interviews, which upholds our expectation that there is more of this process to come. (Less)
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- author
- Berglund, Hannes LU and Kamunen, Markus LU
- supervisor
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- Eva Johnsson LU
- organization
- course
- SOPB63 20242
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- health care, social work, authorization, jurisdiction, status, social position, professional identity
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9186724
- date added to LUP
- 2025-03-24 17:04:06
- date last changed
- 2025-03-24 17:04:06
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abstract = {{As of 2019 Swedish health care social work has received authorization and its effect has since been discussed. To become an authorized healthcare social worker today you are expected to complete a one-year academic specialization on top of your Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, which has been met by a mainly positive yet mixed reception. This study aims to understand the authorization's impact on the social workers' work situation, as well as its expectation of knowledge and status. We, Berglund and Kamunen, aimed through interviews with six somatic hospital-based social workers understand how their jurisdiction, as professional boundaries and identity, came to be affected and what they expect of the future. Through our analysis, it became apparent that our interviewees had experienced minimal immediate effect of the authorization in terms of their work situation. The fact that those being authorized could come to lose their authorization was viewed as an immediate aspect which is seen as positive about patient safety concerns. The change in status ascribed to the authorization was perceived as relatively low, mainly because the symbolic rise in status does not outweigh factors such as an absence of raised salaries. A consequence of the authorization has been presented in how the field is expected to be split between authorized and non-authorized social workers. All in all the authorization is viewed as positive in a way that the majority of Swedish health care professions are authorized. If the authorization will have any future effect on health care social work has varied expectations through our interviews, which upholds our expectation that there is more of this process to come.}},
author = {{Berglund, Hannes and Kamunen, Markus}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Den legitimerade sjukhuskuratorn: En studie om legitimationens effekt och inverkan}},
year = {{2025}},
}