With increasing calls to incorporate recovery principles into conventional mental health care,
the importance of peer support worker (PSW) services has gained attention. However …

The creation of new roles commonly threatens the power and status of elite professionals
through the substitution of their labour. In this paper we examine the institutional work …

This study aims to contribute to the limited set of interactional studies of health occupational
relations. A “negotiated order” perspective was applied to a multi-site setting to articulate the …

Our study examines brokering of situated knowledge within an organizational context,
characterized by professional hierarchy. We examine how professional affiliation and …

The implementation of interprofessional practice (IPP) within healthcare appears to be
fraught with difficulties, despite the attention it has received in the literature. Although there …

Background Fundamentally, the goal of health professional regulatory regimes is to ensure
the highest quality of care to the public. Part of that task is to control what health …

Background The move towards enhancing teamwork and interprofessional collaboration in
health care raises issues regarding the management of professional boundaries and the …

This paper makes the case for the neo-Weberian approach for analyzing the professions. It
starts by reviewing the difficulties of other main approaches to the sociology of professions …

Our study provides an analysis of role transition, examining how macro-level influences and
micro-level practice interact in framing role transition, with a focus upon professional identity …

Purpose Despite the importance of leadership in interprofessional health care teams, little is
understood about how it is enacted. The literature emphasizes a collaborative approach of …