Social Work as Knowledge Work: Knowledge practices and multi-professional collaboration

This paper discusses two issues relevant to the current day social work: (i.) social work as knowledge work, where various forms of creating and using knowledge are a relevant part of the work, and (ii.) multi-professional collaboration, where social work is integrated into or cooperates with other public services in social and health sector. The aims of this paper are to introduce knowledge practices as a theoretical concept suitable for analyzing these forms of social work listed above and apply this approach for analyzing a number of cases of novel services of multiprofessional nature, where social work is a central part of the practice.