Abstract
The article focuses on the work of clinical social workers who, on the one hand, respond to the emotions that children and families experience after the child is diagnosed with the chronic disease diabetes, on the other hand, deal with various bureaucratic processes aimed at ensuring that the child's medical needs are met in the family’s new life. The work is directed towards two different worlds that are interdependent, yet bringing them together frequently necessitates a balancing act. The purpose is to examine how the social worker deal with these two worlds in the encounter with the child and the family. A result is the document’s role when the social worker translates the family's new everyday life into a language that can generate assistance or allowance from the state.
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