Hybrid social work : contested knowledge, fragile collaboration and social citizenship / edited by Ivan Harsløf (Associate Professor), Simon Innvær (Associate Professor), Dag Jenssen (Associate Professor), Wenche Bekken (Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Child Welfare, and Social Policy, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway) and Ingo Bode (Professor of Social Policy, Organisation and Society, Faculty of Human Sciences, Institute of Social Work and Social Welfare, University of Kassel, Germany).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harsløf, Ivan, editor.

Innvær, Simon, editor.

Bekken, Wenche, editor.

Bode, Ingo, editor.

Jenssen, Dag, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service.

Welfare state.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar, 2025.

Summary:

"This prescient book examines the evolving hybrid nature of social work within modern welfare states. Expert authors discuss how human service providers engage with a variety of other providers and logics, such as medical, psychological, educational and law. Drawing on case studies from Australia, Europe, and North America, chapters analyze the changing responsibilities of social workers, exploring their involvement in policy practice, epistemic communities, and interprofessional collaboration. Contributing authors demonstrate how practitioners navigate the challenges of medicalization, juridification, managerialism and shifting expectations. They highlight the key potential of interdisciplinary approaches to overcome entrenched fragmentations in the human service sector. Ultimately, the book argues that while hybrid social work is often sought after in Western welfare systems, it involves considerable complexity for professionals. Presenting insightful perspectives on the interaction between social work practice and broader welfare state developments, this book is an indispensable resource for students and scholars in social work, social policy, political science, and the sociology of professions and organizations. It will also benefit political advisors and policymakers across the social welfare sector"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. Evolving hybrid worlds of social work / Ingo Bode, Simon Innvær, Dag Jenssen, Wenche Bekken and Ivan Harsløf

Part I: Contested knowledge - epistemological foundations of hybrid social work

2. The epistemic culture of hybrid social work: Insights from organisational settings in Germany and norway / Dag Jenssen, Ingo Bode and Robin Lenz

3. Awakening our epistemic consciousness: Re-thinking

Interprofessional health social work / Hannah Cootes

4. The importance of 'system knowledge' among norwegian social workers in host settings / Ivan Harsløf

Part II: Medicalization and hybrid interventions

5. 'Not prioritized, but very important': Social work captured in medical and psychological reasoning / Wenche Bekken

6. Social nursing in Denmark: A specialized response to vulnerability in healthcare / Anette Lykke Hindhede, Ingrid Poulsen and Jonas Debesay

7. In the absence of social workers at danish somatic hospitals: The social dimension in the social nurse function / Karin Højbjerg, Emilie Marie Andrés, Christian Ildrup Gadgaard, Carsten Juul Jensen and Heidi Lene Myglegaard Andersen

8. The libra of institutional logics: Theorizing hybrid structures in human service organizations in the field of disability / Jens Ineland and Faten Nouf

Part III: Interprofessional collaboration

9. Three logics of acculturation on social workers' perceptions of their interprofessional teamwork / Simon Innvær and Henriette Lund Skyberg

10. 'You should do what you're good at': Boundary work in interprofessional teams / Sylvie van Dam and Peter Raeymaeckers

Part IV: The interface with other organizations

11. Complementary roles or multiple idiosyncrasy?: Patchwork collaboration in local action against homelessness in Germany / Ingo Bode and Moritz Bachmann

12. Between transaction and hybridization: French human service professionals dealing with multiple logics of action / Philippe Lyet

13. Value conflicts: How us social workers manage the ethics of outsider practice / Corey S. Shdaimah, Lauren P. McCarthy, Rachel Imboden and Patrice Forrester

14. Conclusion to hybrid social work / Ivan Harsløf, Simon Innvær, Dag Jenssen, Wenche Bekken and Ingo Bode.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035327218 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.