ABSTRACT

This study aims to increase understanding of how social workers and therapists contribute to cooperation meetings within the individual placement and support intervention. The individual placement and support model of supported employment is expanding worldwide. Although several quantitative studies have shown this model`s effect, the need for qualitative studies on collaboration within this intervention is evident. The individual placement and support fidelity manual presents clear expectations to the social workers and therapist in the cooperation. Still, few previous studies investigate how these expectations are met in praxis. This study draws on sixteen collaboration meetings, recorded, transcribed, and analysed using reflexive thematic analyses. It shows that the social workers and therapists did, to a limited extent, adapting their support to the expectations of personalised work support inherent in the individual placement and support intervention. They underestimated their importance in collaboration meetings, and this limited the dialogue. Further qualitative studies are needed to understand how social workers and therapists experience their contribution to individual placement and support and their reasons underestimating their importance. Still, we suggest that more individualised work support from the social workers and therapists could help people who choose individual placement and support to succeed in work life.

摘要

本研究旨在增加对社会工作者和治疗师如何在个人安置和支持干预中为合作会议做出贡献的理解。支持性就业的个人安置和支持模式正在全球范围内扩展。尽管几项定量研究表明了该模型的效果，但显然需要对该干预中的协作进行定性研究。个人安置和支持忠诚度手册在合作中向社会工作者和治疗师提出了明确的期望。尽管如此，以前很少有研究调查这些期望在实践中是如何得到满足的。这项研究利用了 16 次合作会议，记录、转录和使用反思性主题分析进行分析。它表明，社会工作者和治疗师在有限的范围内，使他们的支持适应个人安置和支持干预中固有的个性化工作支持的期望。他们低估了他们在协作会议中的重要性，这限制了对话。需要进一步的定性研究来了解社会工作者和治疗师如何体验他们对个人安置和支持的贡献以及他们的低估其重要性的原因。尽管如此，我们建议社会工作者和治疗师提供更多个性化的工作支持，可以帮助选择个人安置和支持的人在工作生活中取得成功。