Johanna Ranta

Tampere University | UTA · Faculty of Social Sciences

The high prevalence of homelessness among drug users is testament to the difficulty in solving the problem. This study explores drugs users’ homelessness situations and the ways in which they are addressed at the grassroots level of welfare services. The data were collected from a low-threshold outpatient clinic for people with severe drug problems...

Among homeless people using drugs, a permanent place to live can be difficult to find. Homelessness or living in traumatic home environments might cause the experiences of displacement, which may weaken the possibility to attach to a new place emotionally and create the personal sense of home without support. In housing support work, it is possible...

This study focuses on how clients using illicit drugs are supported in managing the boundaries of their homes to avoid the risks that social relationships may have on their daily lives at home. The data consist of 14 client–worker encounters audio‐recorded in 2017 in a Finnish home‐based service for people using drugs. Discursive interaction analys...

Background: People using injection drugs and living in complex, vulnerable and stigmatised life situations can face many kinds of barriers when accessing social and healthcare services. Thus, they are often encountered in easily reachable low-threshold services aimed at harm reduction. However, little is known about how clients’ multiple drug-relat...

Ihmisten elämäntilanteiden erilaisuus ja eriarvoisuus ovat aina läsnä yhteiskuntapoliittisissa keskusteluissa. Marginaalissa eläminen voi tarkoittaa asunnottomuutta, sairastumista, työttömyyttä ja oman paikkansa etsimistä, kun tuntuu, että muut elävät arjessaan normaalia elämää. Tavallisuutta, normaalia, hyväksyttyä tai valtavirtaa ei kuitenkaan ol...

This book presents 23 in-depth case studies of successful public policies and programmes in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland. Each chapter tells the story of the policy’s origins, aims, design, decision-making and implementation processes, and assesses in which respects—programmatically, process-wise, politically and over time—and to wh...

By the end of the 20th century, deinstitutionalisation had become a pervasive trend in the Western world. This thematic issue discusses how successful deinstitutionalisation has been in enabling dignified and safe living with necessary services in local communities. It contributes to an understanding of the history and phases of deinstitutionalisat...

Introduction Since the 1980s, service user participation has been a widely discussed ideal among politicians, health and social care professionals and service users themselves (for example, Velasco, 2001; Kvarnström et al, 2012; Finset, 2017). Service user movements have highlighted participation as an issue of freedom of choice, human rights and s...

The chapter examines multi-agency meetings in low-threshold services for people using drugs in Finland. It approaches the data extracts as examples of collaborative service user participation accomplished as an interactional achievement in situ and applies the concept of alignment as a linguistic device in which meeting participants cooperate in in...

Tässä artikkelissa kysymme, miten koti tilana tukee ja haastaa psykososiaalisesti orientoituneen katkaisuhoidon käytäntöjä. Tutkimuksen metodologinen kehys nojaa kodin maantieteen perinteeseen. Lähestymme kotia monimerkityksellisenä kulttuuristen, materiaalisten, emotionaalisten ja sosiaalisten merkitysten läpäisemänä tilana. Tutkimusaineisto on ke...

Huumeista riippuvaisten ihmisten elämäntilanteisiin kytkeytyy usein monia toimijuutta heikentäviä sosiaalisia ja terveydellisiä ilmiöitä, kuten kodittomuutta, vähävaraisuutta tai psyykkisiä ja fyysisiä sairauksia. Jo huumeriippuvuus itsessään vähentää voimavaroja, jolloin sosiaali- ja terveyspalveluihin hakeutuminen ei ole aina mahdollista avun tar...

This article is concerned with the doing and production of data. We ask how data are made in intimate spaces such as the home in collaboration with the different parties involved in home-based care and services. The article builds on ethnographic field notes from 73 home visits, in the context of home-based mental health, substance abuse and social...

This article focuses on how clients' self-determination is accomplished in social worker-client conversations when discussing choices of clients' future services in a low-threshold outpatient clinic in Finland targeted at people who use drugs. Self-determination is approached from the point of view of relational autonomy, meaning that choices are n...

Book review: Yömajasta omaan asuntoon. Suomalaisen asunnottomuuspolitiikan murros. [From a Shelter to My Own Home – Transformation of Finnish Homelessness Policy]. Peter Fredriksson (eds). (2018). Helsinki: Into, pp. 213. European Journal of Homelessness 13(1), 211-214.