• The complexities in social work practice 

      Tembo, Memory Jayne; Oltedal, Siv (Journal article, 2021)
      An understanding of the social work profession starts with an intense appreciation of the person that the social worker serves, the context where this is done and the processes involved in offering services, as well as who ...
    • Private and public families: Social workers’ views on children’s and parents’ position in Chile, England, Lithuania and Norway 

      Oltedal, Siv; Nygren, Lennart (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Social workers around the world work with families and family complexities in their everyday practice. In this cross-national study, we explore social workers’ family intervention practices related to family definitions ...
    • Social workers understanding of extended family's position in child welfare in Lithuania, Chile and Norway 

      Oltedal, Siv; Studsrød, Ingunn; Naujaniene, Rasa; Guzmán, Carolina Muñoz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)
      Child welfare services around the world deal with families and family complexities. The study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway explores how social workers define family and more specific the position of extended families ...
    • Sosialfagleg arbeid med familieoppfølging i Nav – ein vignettstudie 

      Ask, Torunn Alise; Gjedrem, Jorunn; Gjerstad, Brita; Lundberg, Kjetil Grimastad; Oltedal, Siv (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Samhandling med og om familiar i utsette situasjonar er ei viktig oppgåve i sosialt arbeid. Fleire velferdstenester har roller og ansvar, deriblant Nav. Gjennom fokusgruppeintervju har vi fått innsikt i korleis sosialarbeidarar ...
    • The Use of a Client Feedback System in Activation Encounters 

      Olsen, Gurli; Oltedal, Siv (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-05)
      This article builds on 13 audio-recorded and transcribed encounters between counsellors and users in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, where a client-feedback system plays a mediating role in interactions. ...
    • Welfare in Latin America and the Nordic countries – editorial notes 

      Tønnessen, Morten; Hean, Sarah; Oltedal, Siv; Pena, Angela (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05)
      There is a lack of research into social worker perspectives in a Latin American context and a comparison of these with European social work practices that currently predominate in the literature. In response to this ...
    • Work division processes in social work with Cuban and Norwegian families 

      Oltedal, Siv; Pena, Angela; Hean, Sarah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05)
      This paper explores the differences and similarities in three social work processes as viewed by social workers in Norway and Cuba. Contrasting social work processes in these exemplars of de-familialized and familialized ...