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From Home to Community: Reflecting Emotions Related to Mobility
Abstract This study investigates how clients' emotions are invoked and reflected in client-worker interactions and themeanings they have regarding leaving home. We concentrate on floating support work, which aims to support people suffering from mental health and substance abuse‐related issues to improve the... view more
This study investigates how clients' emotions are invoked and reflected in client-worker interactions and themeanings they have regarding leaving home. We concentrate on floating support work, which aims to support people suffering from mental health and substance abuse‐related issues to improve their living in the community. Our theoretical framework is based on the geography of emotions, and we draw on both the interactional and relational approaches thereto. The research material is gathered from Finland and England. We draw on mobile ethnographic and discursive approaches, and our data consists of transcriptions and field notes gathered during floating support visits (N = 19) that took place either at or outside of a client's home. Our findings demonstrate how the connections between places and emotions, the emotions connected to leaving one's home, the emotions reflected while being out in the community, and the reflections of emotions after being out in the community are constructed and reflected in client-worker interactions. The study highlights that these emotions are a necessary and demanding part of promoting clients’ social inclusion in the context of floating support work.... view less
Keywords
mental health; social work; residential behavior; housing conditions; social integration
Classification
Social Work, Social Pedagogics, Social Planning
Free Keywords
emotions; floating support; from home to community; mental health; mobility; substance abuse
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 245-255
Journal
Social Inclusion, 9 (2021) 3
Issue topic
Home- and Community-Based Work at the Margins of Welfare: Balancing between Disciplinary, Participatory and Caring Approaches
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed