Brukarinflytandets villkor och professionella hjälpare

The aim was to gain insight into how specialist-teams intervening in psychiatric illness among individuals with disabilites handled and viewed service-user participation and how the view of the service-user effected service-user influence. Also other factors like authority and organizational context and limitations were recognized and accounted for. Data were collected by use of semi-structured interviews of the specialist-team and professional caregivers at the grouphomes where the interventions had taken places. By using primarily Ernesto Laclau and Chantelle Mouffe´s discourse analysis as method for highlighting discourses, and organization theory and Berger and Luckmann´s sociology of knowledge approach interpretative I found several discourses and factors impacting the service-users participation and possible means of user influence practice in various degrees. The dilemmas of service-user influence on professional interventions were not to be solved by my research but the study clearly shows how both discourses and organizational frame impacts and also show the necessity of service-user influence