Samverkan med förhinder - En kvalitativ studie om frivårdsinspektörers och socialsekreterares upplevelser kring arbetet med klienter med missbruksproblem

Sammanfattning: This study is about collaboration between the probation service and the social services. The aim of this study is to examine how professionals within each organization work together regarding clients that have been convicted to a probation sentence and suffers from an addiction. The aim was also to examine how the employees’ from both organizations, experience this collaboration. The study relies on six qualitative, semi structured interviews with employees from the probation service and the social services in southern Sweden. The study's theoretical frame constitutes of the new institutional theory where I use concepts from Ove Grape such as integration, domain conflict, domain claim and domain consensus. The results of the study shows that the respondents from the probation service felt like the collaboration had flaws and obstacles. However, they still found the collaboration meaningful and essential for the best of the clients. The social services on the other hand found the collaboration to function well and only one of the respondents found flaws with it.