Agency in multiprofessional work
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https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v13i3.480Keywords:
<i>Agency</i>, <i>older patients</i>, <i>membership categorisation</i>, <i>multiprofessional team</i>Abstract
Working with an older person involves different professionals and domains of knowledge. This study examines narratives of the members of a multiprofessional team and an older patient in the context of hospital rehabilitation. Methodologically it draws on social constructionism and the membership categorisation device (MCD). The aim is to show how the situational context, the rehabilitation team, and the agency of its members and the patient get constructed in the accounts of the interviewees. The analysis shows that the social order in hospital rehabilitation includes patterns of action that favour physical, i.e. medical, expertise. The members of the team studied constructed their team as a geriatric one in their accounts. Neither the social worker nor the patients were constructed as active agents in the core of multiprofessional working. The context of health care and the ‘quest for certainty’ challenge social work to find alternative ways of seeing the truths in a patient's life and to negotiate the solutions in multiprofessional working.
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Kinni, R.-L. (2012). Agency in multiprofessional work. Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 13(3), 25-47. https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v13i3.480
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