Brukarinflytande för personer med psykiska funktionshinder : En kvalitativ vinjettstudie om hur boendestödjare hanterar brukarinflytande i sin yrkesutövning

Sammanfattning: Social workers who working with housing support through the Social Services Act (SOL) has in their profession several factors to take into account to create influence for the individual users. They are governed by the rules of the local organization, their own valuations as well as the users will and needs which constitutes their discretion. The aim of this study was to investigate how professionals experience and act to realize users influence as well as which difficulties they may meet and how they handle them. In order to fulfill the aim qualitative interviews have been used and subsequently analyzed by the theoretical frameworks “empowerment” and “discretion”. The result showed that professionals wants to meet the users requests but they use their discretion in different ways. For example follow the rules of the organization, ignore them or find ways to go around them. The financial constraints of the organization, the fact that they have more users in need of support and that their assignments are more micromanaged are factors that limit user influence.