Åsa Mäkitalo

• Silseth, Kenneth; Hontvedt, Magnus & Mäkitalo, Åsa (2022). Teachers’ enactment of policy in classrooms: making students accountable through inscriptions from the curriculum in classroom interactions. European Journal of Psychology of Education. ISSN 0256-2928. doi: 10.1007/s10212-022-00610-3.
• Cederberg, Matilda; Fors, Andreas; Ali, Lilas; Goulding, Anneli & Mäkitalo, Åsa (2022). The interactive work of narrative elicitation in person-centred care: Analysis of phone conversations between health care professionals and patients with common mental disorders. Health Expectations. ISSN 1369-6513. doi: 10.1111/hex.13440. Show summary

  Introduction: Narratives play a central part in person-centred care (PCC) as a communicative means of attending to patients' experiences. The present study sets out to explore what activities are performed and what challenges participants face in the interactive process of narrative elicitation, carried through in patient-professional communication in a remote intervention based on PCC. Methods: Data were gathered from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in a Swedish city where health care professionals (HCPs) conducted remote PCC for patients on sick leave due to common mental disorders. A sample of eleven audio‐recorded phone conversations between HCPs and patients enroled in the RCT were collected and subjected to conversation analysis. Results: Three interactive patterns in narrative elicitation were identified: Completed narrative sequences driven by the patient, question‐driven narrative sequences guided by the HCP, and narrative sequences driven as a collaborative project between the patient and the HCP. In the question‐driven narrative sequences, communication was problematic for both participants and they did not accomplish a narrative. In the other two patterns, narratives were accomplished but through various collaborative processes. Conclusion: This study provides insight into what challenges narrative elicitation may bring in the context of a remote PCC intervention and what interactive work patients and HCP need to engage in. Importantly, it also highlights tensions in the ethics of PCC and its operationalization, if the pursuit of a narrative is not properly balanced against the respect for patients' integrity and personal preferences. Our findings also show that narrative elicitation may represent an interactive process in PCC in which illness narratives are jointly produced, negotiated and transformed. Patient or Public Contribution: Stakeholders, including patient representatives, were involved in the design of the main study (the RCT). They have been involved in discussions on research questions and dissemination throughout the study period. They have not been involved in conducting the present study.

• Mäkitalo, Åsa; Bivall, Ann-Charlotte & Säljö, Roger (2021). Our business is problem-solving: Learning, remembering and inscriptions at the IT helpdesk. In Gunther, Kress; Selander, Staffan; Säljö, Roger & Wulf, Christoph (Ed.), Learning as Social Practice Beyond Education as an Individual Enterprise. Routledge. ISSN 9781003139188.
• Wiszmeg, Andréa; Lundin, Susanne; Mäkitalo, Åsa; Widner, Håkan & Hansson, Kristofer (2021). Transforming trash to treasure Cultural ambiguity in foetal cell research. Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in Medicine. ISSN 1747-5341. 16, p. 1–12. doi: 10.1186/s13010-021-00104-y.

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• Lundin, Mona; Aanestad, Margunn; Mäkitalo, Åsa & Winthereik, Brit Ross (2021). Digital Services in the Nordic Welfare States: what about the Partially Digital User?
• Sadorge, Christopher; Nerland, Monika & Mäkitalo, Åsa (2021). Negotiating categories in design work. A study of a team developing a patient information system .

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