Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway.
Department of Child Welfare and Social Work, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 9019 Tromsø, Norway.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 7;19(24):16386. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416386.
Interdisciplinary social work practice produces and circulates narratives of young women in residential care. The dominant narratives often present negative descriptions of this group, and less attention has been paid to their resistance to these "big stories". This study's aim is to illuminate this resistance of young women in residential care and to explore how they narrate their experiences of being children at risk who have become women managing everyday life. This study utilises a narrative approach and includes three selected personal stories: two from the participants and one from the first author's reflections on resistance. Through contextual analysis at the macro, meso and micro levels, we focus on how personal stories can influence interdisciplinary social work services. We found resistance to dominant narratives on the different levels in the chosen stories. Resistance can create space to reconstruct and renarrate reality together and help understand the meaning and power of storytelling and silence. Participants' resistance can be a tool to rebalance the power between social work practitioners and service users. Based on this analysis, we suggest that interdisciplinary collaborative social work should emphasise service users' personal stories to a higher degree and, in this way, increase user participation in residential care.
跨学科社会工作实践产生并传播着居住照料中的年轻女性的故事。主导性的叙事往往对这一群体进行负面描述，而对她们对这些“宏大故事”的抵制关注较少。本研究旨在阐明居住照料中的年轻女性的这种抵制，并探讨她们如何叙述自己从风险儿童成长为管理日常生活的女性的经历。本研究采用叙事方法，包括三个精选的个人故事：两个来自参与者，一个来自第一作者对抵制的反思。通过在宏观、中观和微观层面上的情境分析，我们关注个人故事如何影响跨学科社会工作服务。我们在所选故事的不同层面上发现了对主导性叙事的抵制。抵制可以在不同层面上创造空间，共同重构和重新叙述现实，有助于理解讲故事和沉默的意义和力量。参与者的抵制可以成为重新平衡社会工作者和服务使用者之间权力的工具。基于这一分析，我们建议跨学科合作的社会工作应该更加强调服务使用者的个人故事，并以此提高居住照料中用户的参与度。
