Att skapa en allians för klientens bästa : Kvalitativ studie om socialsekreterares upplevelser av intern samverkan

• Main Authors: Axelsson, Ingela, Kristensen, Linda
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) 2021
• Subjects: Collaboration; social worker; experience; Samverkan; socialarbetare; upplevelser; Social Work; Socialt arbete
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105544

Today's welfare society is increasingly specialised and the downside of this is that it can lead to a fragmented welfare society. As a result, the importance of collaboration has become more central as it can be a counterforce against fragmentation. Our purpose with the study is to gain an understanding of social workers' experiences of internal collaboration and the consequences internal collaboration has for the client.  For answering our research questions, we chose to use a qualitative method with seven semi-structured interviews. The results based on our collected empirical data were analysed using transcription and encoding certain paragraphs and words in the printout. An overall conclusion is that the organizational conditions are what are most highlighted in our empirical data. They create both obstacles if they do not exist but can also create good conditions for a functioning internal collaboration. The respondents in the study highlight those good relationships and closeness to each other are a positive factor that facilitates internal collaboration. Although the relationship may have some significance for collaboration, it is still the fundamental factors, such as regulations, knowledge and explanation factors and organizational conditions that are most important for good collaboration. The empirical study thus confirms the theory and research presented in our paper.