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- Title
SOSIAALITYÖN PSYKOSOSIAALINEN ASIANTUNTIJUUS NUORISOPSYKIATRIAN MONIAMMATILLISEN TYÖYHTEISÖN MÄÄRITTELMÄNÄ.
- Authors
Arajärvi, Miina; Mönkkönen, Kaarina; Kekoni, Taru; Toikko, Timo
- Abstract
Social workers work as specialists in youth psychiatry, bringing a social perspective to the multidisciplinary dialogue. In recent years care models in youth psychiatry have been developed. This has coincided with an effort to strengthen the role of specialists. This article examines the perceptions of psychosocial expertise in social work in the multidisciplinary and changing context of youth psychiatry outpatient care. The data consists of focus group interviews with professionals in youth psychiatry. In youth psychiatry, psychosocial social work is perceived as a double role, which encompasses mapping and evaluating the social abilities of the young person and the overall situation of the family, along with therapeutic care and service network coordination. In the interviews with professional groups, a shared view that the expertise of a social worker is founded on an understanding of the effects of mental symptoms on the social abilities of the young person, was emphasized.
- Publication
Janus, 2020, Vol 28, Issue 4, p357
- ISSN
1235-7812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30668/janus.77900