<p>The purpose of this essay is to examine how social welfare secretaries from the social service and welfare officers from adult psychiatry experience the cooperation between themselves in relation to mentally ill mothers and their children.Moreover, the study aims to shed light on social welfare secretaries and welfare officers views on potential gender related differences in the work with mentally ill mothers and fathers.Five qualitative interviews were performed in two separate municipals in the Stockholm area. Three of the respondents were social welfare secretaries in the social services and two were welfare officers in the adult psychiatry. Our theoretical starting point has been role theory and a model of different dimensions of cooperation.Our result showed that there were shortcomings in the cooperation between the two principals. How well the cooperation worked differed between the two municipals. In one of the examined municipals the cooperation could only be found on an individual client or individual patient case level, whilst in the other municipal the cooperation existed on a more general level in the form of project meetings. The respondents brought up that there are circumstantial complications that hinders a well functioning cooperation between the two principals such as secrecy regulations, the fact that the principals work from different perspectives and unclear responsibility.</p>

The purpose of this essay is to examine how social welfare secretaries from the social service and welfare officers from adult psychiatry experience the cooperation between themselves in relation to mentally ill mothers and their children.Moreover, the study aims to shed light on social welfare secretaries and welfare officers views on potential gender related differences in the work with mentally ill mothers and fathers.Five qualitative interviews were performed in two separate municipals in the Stockholm area. Three of the respondents were social welfare secretaries in the social services and two were welfare officers in the adult psychiatry. Our theoretical starting point has been role theory and a model of different dimensions of cooperation.Our result showed that there were shortcomings in the cooperation between the two principals. How well the cooperation worked differed between the two municipals. In one of the examined municipals the cooperation could only be found on an individual client or individual patient case level, whilst in the other municipal the cooperation existed on a more general level in the form of project meetings. The respondents brought up that there are circumstantial complications that hinders a well functioning cooperation between the two principals such as secrecy regulations, the fact that the principals work from different perspectives and unclear responsibility.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka och analysera verksammas syn inom socialtjänsten, på barns risker för utsatthet med att växa upp med en förälder med psykisk ohälsa. Vidare var syftet att belysa eventuella utvecklingsområden som finns i arbetet med barn och unga. Denna studie baseras på semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju yrkesverksamma från socialtjänsten. Samverkan, aktuella lagar och BBIC har varit de teoretiska utgångspunkterna som har använts i denna analys. Resultatet av denna studie indikerar på att det finns många risker för utsatthet med att växa upp med en förälder med psykisk ohälsa, samt brister i samverkan mellan socialtjänsten och andra samhällsorgan som arbetar med barn och unga, trots att det tillkommit nya bestämmelser med syfte att beakta barnen i högre utsträckning. Slutsatsen av denna studie visar vikten av att öka kunskapen om de risker för utsatthet för barn och unga som råder. Det bör även ske en förbättring med implementering av de nya bestämmelserna för ett större fokus på att beakta barnen och stärka samverkan för att fånga upp barnen i tid.