"Behoven är oändliga, resurserna begränsade" : En intervjustudie om professionellas upplevelser av samverkansarbete riktat till barn med problematisk skolfrånvaro

Sammanfattning: The aim of the study was to explore how professionals from school and social services experience cooperation aimed at children with problematic school absenteeism. The study did also intend to explore what opportunities and obstacles professionals experience in cooperation. Several studies show important key factors for good cooperation, such as established understanding and continuous communication. At the same time, studies show that practical cooperational work also can lead to obstacles, such as unclear division of responsibilities between professionals. Six interviews were conducted, three with professionals from school and three with professionals from the social services. The data material was then coded based on Thornberg´s (2012) theory whose purpose was to explore multi-professional collaboration between professionals within the school, based on two ideal types: synchronizing and desynchronizing. The emerging themes were then analyzed on the basis of Thornberg´s (2012) theory. The results of this study show that when cooperation occurs in actual mettings or through other kinds of communication, the interviewees experience that it often works quite well, which leads to synchronization. However, the study results alså show that there are various factors that complicates and counteracts the possibilities for cooperation, which tends to lead to desynchronization.