A professional field? Educational attainments, gender and age among staff in Swedish residential care

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI:10.1080/0886571X.2023.2241361

David Pålsson, Peter Andersson, Emelie Shanks, Stefan Wiklund

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss residential staff in Sweden. Here, residential care is part of the municipal child welfare system, which covers services targeting juvenile delinquency as well as other residential care services. Children and young people placed in Swedish residential care have diverse needs, from mainly supportive needs to advanced behavioral problems, and the field consists of open and secure residential care units. There is limited knowledge about the staff working in residential care. This article helps to fill this knowledge gap by giving an overall picture of staff educational attainments, age and gender in Swedish residential care between the years of 2008–2020. To reason about staff qualifications, we use theoretical concepts from sociological theory on professions. Findings show that residential care in Sweden can be analyzed as a pre-professional field, dominated by staff with low levels of education. In addition, we show that the field is dominated by women – even if the proportion of men is higher than in other areas of social work – and that the majority of staff are between 30 and 64 years old. Some differences between open and secure residential care were found, the most notable concerning educational levels and gender.

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专业领域？瑞典养老院工作人员的教育程度、性别和年龄

在这篇文章中，我们讨论了瑞典的住宿员工。在这里，寄宿照顾是市政儿童福利系统的一部分，该系统包括针对青少年犯罪的服务以及其他寄宿照顾服务。安置在瑞典寄宿护理机构的儿童和年轻人有不同的需求，从主要的支持需求到高级行为问题，该领域包括开放和安全的寄宿护理单位。人们对养老院工作人员的了解有限。本文通过全面介绍2008-2020年期间瑞典住院护理人员的教育程度、年龄和性别，帮助填补了这一知识空白。为了对员工资格进行推理，我们使用了社会学专业理论中的理论概念。研究结果表明，瑞典的寄宿护理可以被分析为一个学前专业领域，以低教育水平的工作人员为主。此外，我们表明，该领域是由妇女主导的- -即使男性的比例高于其他社会工作领域- -大多数工作人员年龄在30至64岁之间。发现开放和安全的寄宿照料之间存在一些差异，最显著的是教育水平和性别方面的差异。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

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2 months

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