Empowered and self-managing users in methadone treatment?
Empowered and self-managing users in methadone treatment?
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DOI:
10.1080/13691457.2012.739560
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发表时间:
2014-01-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
Nielsen, Bjarke
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作者:
Bjerge, Bagga;Nielsen, Bjarke
Empowerment is a keyword in treatment. Users should have the means and possibilities to influence their treatment and become self-managing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish methadone treatment project, we find that the practices of users and staff are often not carried out in accordance with governmental intentions. We identify a gap between the official notions of treatment and practices. We analyse the notions and practices of empowerment by applying two analytical perspectives. First, we apply a constructionist perspective in which empowerment is analysed as wanting to set users free' but also as ways to govern. We elaborate the analysis by applying a more practice-oriented focus. Drawing on this perspective, we analyse the ways in which staff and users constantly produce, construct and negotiate institutional practices that differ from the governmental intentions for treatment.