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What Could “Systemic Social Work” Mean in a Finnish Context?. Katarina Fagerstrom Universityteacher/doctoral student at the University of Helsinki Presentation i Hackney, London september 2012. Criteria for Social Work education:.
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What Could “Systemic Social Work” Mean in a Finnish Context? Katarina Fagerstrom Universityteacher/doctoral student at the University of Helsinki Presentation i Hackney, London september 2012
Criteria for Social Work education: • Master’s university degree in Social Work required for qualified social workers • The knowledge base in the education has been in Social Policy, now Social work is an own discipline in the Finnish universities • Young scientific field • University of Helsinki: Emphasis on Practice Research
Systemic = Family therapy? • Tradition in Case work and counselling (1970ies) • Psychiatric research and practice (1970ies and 1980ies) • Family- and Network therapy • Methods, a movement… • Risk of psychologizing problems in sociey?
Family Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy • Educated by private institutes • Family therapy “Mainstream” psychotherapy • Social workers can become family therapists • Family therapy considered as psychotherapy • The responsibility of Psychotherapy training evaluation is moving to the Universities (Psychology and Medicine)
Theoretical discussion: • Postmodern (Lyotard 1979) • Post-traditional (Habermas 1984) • Reflexive or late-modern (Beck, Giddens & Lash 1994) => Globalisation, individualisation, digitalisation, enviromental consequences, full employment crisis..etc.
Dominant discourses in Social work (Karen Healy 2005) • Neo-liberalism • Medicalisation • Evidence based practice • Law and byrochratic prosedures • Psychologisation => New public management…
Modern theories: Systems theory (Bateson & MRI, Bartalaffy, Varela…) • Modern Practise: MRI, Milano school… • Post-Modern theories: • Gender, etnicity, class… • Wittgenstein – language games, • Foucalt – the issue of power • Bahtin, dialogue…
Modern project: From linear to systemic reasoning - “The map is not the territory” • Lingustic turn: “The map is the territory” • Practice turn?
This presentation was held on a conference of the project „STEP“. The project „STEP“ has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.