Social Work

Reflections on dignity, practice, and the human meaning of social work.


Working with Dignity in Social Work

Between experience, philosophy, and practice

When Help Becomes a System

Reflections on dignity, addiction, and human fragility

Symbolic Interactionism

Reality Emerges Between People

Jane Addams

A door left slightly ajar

When Images of Child Abuse Were Prohibited in Norway

On the Market, the Silence, and Responsibility

When the Videotapes Arrived

On Violent Images, Children’s Silence, and a Society Losing Its Bearings

Social Work Between Human Beings, Society, and Meaning

On Theoretical Foundations, Practice, and the Encounter with a Human Being Asking for Help

Professional Social Work

Between Theory, Human Encounter, and Practical Judgment

When Practice Loses Its Soul

Alasdair MacIntyre, Practical Philosophy, and the Struggle for the Common Good

Community Work as Practical Philosophy

On Participation, Dignity, and Humanity’s Capacity to Shape the World Together

When the Human Being Cannot Be Fully Measured

On Science, Experience, and Mental Health Work

When Social Work Becomes a Practical Art

On technēphronēsis, and the encounter with the other

Starting Where the Client Is

On the human being, the gaze, and the danger of reification

The Conversation as a Place of Work

On listening, understanding, and acting in social work

The Relationship That Can Change a Life

Relational work in practice: building trust through shared action.



From Adaptation to Liberation

From powerlessness to participation: building a new life through shared work.

From Service User to Citizen

On Citizenship, Dignity, and the Right to Participate

What Should a Human Being Be Able to Do and to Be?

Martha Nussbaum and the Concrete Face of Justice

Care Is Not the Opposite of Dignity

When Dependence Is Not a Deficiency, but a Fundamental Condition of Human Life

When the Bus Does Not Stop for Everyone

On Freedom, Disability, and Just Accommodation

Justice in the Small Encounter

On Professional Judgement, Participation, and Responsibility