Brukermedvirkning i bo-oppfølging. Et spenningsfelt mellom å yte omsorg og å bidra til systematiske endringsprosesser

Abstract

Household support takes place in users’ homes and neighbourhoods. User participation is basic in developing support services, which meet the needs of users with mental health and/or addiction challenges. Decisions made in collaboration with social work practitioners from the Norwegian municipal social services, have to target the users’ life-situations. The aim of this article is to explore how practitioners experience user participation. The article is based on a part of a big research project, practicing user participation and the Task-Centred Coping Approach. Twenty-five practitioners from the MSS in Norway participated in focus-group interviews. The results were summarized into four themes: practitioners’ understanding of user participation, users’ personal and environmental resources, users’ motivation for household support and users’ goals.