Cultural and Practical Changes in Public Welfare Services

Today public welfare services are complex and interconnected.  Public reports and guidelines highlights that welfare services should be more integrated and coherent, while there is an increased focus on global and cultural challenges, as well as user/client involvement. Why is it so hard to change welfare services and practices that has been there for ages?  How can we use cultural psychological perspectives to understand the resistance to change? How can we use cultural psychological perspectives to facilitate dialogue and change processes in health, social and welfare services, so as they adapt to global and cultural challenges and user/client involvement?

The workshop is a collaboration between AAU/CCP and University College of Southeast Norway, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences.

Please note that the venue has been changed to Kroghstræde 3, Room 4.117

Participant from University College of Southeast Norway will be:

Prof. Bengt Karlsson

Prof. Ottar Næss

Prof. Rob Bongaardt

Ass. Prof. Line Joranger (visiting Scholar at CCP).

Participant from Aalborg University, Centre for Cultural Psychology will be:

Post-doc Pina Marsico

Ass. Prof. Luca Tateo

Dr. and Ph.D student, Jensine Ingerslev Nedergaard

Programme

15:00 – 15:15   Line Joranger – Short introduction

15:15 – 16:00    Discussion – Why is it so hard to change welfare services and practices that has been there for ages?  How can we use cultural psychological perspectives to understand the resistance to change?

16:00 – 16:15   Short coffee break

16:15 – 17:00   Discussion – How can we use cultural psychological perspectives to facilitate dialog and change processes in health, social and welfare services, so as they adapt to global and cultural challenges and user/client involvement?