Interprofessional Collaboration and Service User Participation

Analysing Meetings in Social Welfare

Juhila, Kirsi, Dall, Tanja, Kirsi Juhila, Tanja Dall, Christopher Hall, Juliet Koprowska

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781447356639
• eBook ISBN: 9781447356660
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book brings together contributions from a range of social welfare settings, including child welfare, unemployment, mental health and substance abuse treatment, to examine how interprofessional collaboration and service user participation are realised or challenged in multi-agency meetings.

It provides empirically grounded analyses of specific aspects of multi-agency work and offers a distinctive conceptual framework for understanding and analysing interaction during meetings in various social welfare settings.

Based on audio and video recordings, the authors provide clear examples of actual practices of social welfare professionals and demonstrate how the realisation of collaborative and integrated welfare policy is contingent on effective interactional practices between professionals and service users.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Series Information
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 From a collaborative and integrated welfare policy to frontline practices
• 2 Examining talk and interaction in meetings of professionals and service users
• 3 How chairs use the pronoun ‘we’ to guide participation in rehabilitation team meetings
• 4 Working within frames and across boundaries in core group meetings in child protection
• 5 Alignment and service user participation in low-threshold meetings with people using drugs
• 6 Sympathy and micropolitics in return-to-work meetings
• 7 Negotiating epistemic rights to knowledge concerning service users’ recent histories in mental health meetings
• 8 Relational agency and epistemic justice in initial child protection conferences
• Conclusion
• Postscript
• Index