ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on developing family mediation services. Comparative and international research is lacking in social work. The concept of robustness was originally developed for analysis of science and academic knowledge production in modern knowledge societies. As an elementary part of welfare services, social work as a discipline and practice is dependent on the changes in society and policy views. In each agency a group of social workers were asked to discuss their work with unemployed youth on the basis of a case. At the policy level documents are collected from the different discussions related to social work and in particular to issues concerning unemployment in the Nordic countries. Family disputes and mediation concern social work practices but also wide multi-professional networks. A major question is how to support learning network so that it can evolve from being a group of independently acting individuals into a collective effort at decisive transformation and implementation with an aspect of shared transformative agency.
