As of June 2019, medical health care social workers will become eligible for authorization, thereby putting an end to an over 50-year-long debate. The aim of this study was to investigate this debate and how it has been expressed in various texts, foremost legal documents and professional journal articles. Discourse analysis was used as a methodological tool in order to examine explicit and implic

The purpose of this paper is to describe and understand the social secretaries’ experiences regarding their discretion in relation to the client group (young people with criminal behavior 15-20 years) from an o. We used a qualitative method through semi-structured interviews with six different social secretaries within one and the same social service in a municipality in southern Sweden. When anal

This thesis studies Marcus Oscarsson, Joakim Lamotte, Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet, some of the biggest journalistic actors on Facebook in Sweden, and what kind of political material from them that gets spread and engaged with on Facebook. The thesis also analyze the difference between the private actors Oscarsson and Lamotte and the traditional actors Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet and what typ

Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka gyms ätstörningspolicy och aspekten om var gränsen går mellan konsumentens egenansvar i problematiken gentemot gymmets val att som företag ta ett övergripande ansvar för konsumentens välmående. Studien utgörs av fyra olika gyms deltagande genom semistrukturerade intervjuer och mejlade frågeformulär, samt att fem individer som tidigare varit drabbade av ät

The aim of this study was to investigate how social workers describe the difficulties that they experience while interacting with parents of adolescents who seek support from social services and also how social workers describe accountability for the children amongst themselves and the parents. The method chosen for this study was qualitative interviews with five different youth welfare social wor

The occurrence of climate change will have a significant impact on society and adapting to a more sustainable environment is of key importance. The dangers of climate change will include temperature and precipitation patterns becoming more extreme creating a substantial impact on society. Greece’s location and climate make it particularly vulnerable to a changing climate and climate impact assessm

Denna enkätstudie undersökte 211 svenska socionomstudenters intresse av att arbeta med försörjningsstöd, samt relationen mellan intresset och i) studenternas erfarenheter av arbete med försörjningsstöd, ii) studenternas syn på försörjningsstödssystemet och iii) studenternas syn på arbetssituationen på försörjningsstöd. Resultatet visade att studenterna hade ett begränsat intresse av att arbeta medThis study examined the interest in working with social assistance among 211 Swedish BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) students. It also focused the relationship between the students’ interest and i) their prior work experience in the field, ii) their attitudes towards the Swedish social assistance system and iii) their attitudes towards the work situation within the field of social assistance. This w

This study aims to examine social work with people that have experience from selling sex and/or sex trafficking, to show the impact of stigma in social work. The analysis is qualitative and based on semi-structured interviews with six people with experience from social work with this group. Our result showed that social work interventions can be found in three levels: community level, group level

Denna komparativa uppsats undersöker och jämför anställningsskyddet för sjuka arbetstagare i Sverige, Norge och Danmark. Detta görs genom studier av rättskällor utifrån en rättsdogmatisk metodik. Grundprincipen i ett anställningsförhållande är att en arbetsgivare betalar den arbetstagare som utför av arbetsgivaren anbefallna arbetsuppgifter. Utförs inte arbetsuppgifter uppfylls inte kontraktet, ocThis comparative essay aims to research and compare the protection of employment for sick employees in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The study is conducted by studying various sources of law according to the law dogmatic method. The basic principles of the terms of employment is that an employer pays an employee to perform stipulated assignments. If the assignments are not performed, the employment

Syftet med den här undersökningen var att få en djupare förståelse för män som utsätts för våld i nära relation av en kvinnlig partner. Vi har undersökt vilka normer som finns inbäddade i det faktum att en man blir slagen av en kvinna och hur dessa normer har påverkat männens syn på sin egen roll och valet att inte söka hjälp ur sin situation. Empirin har samlats in genom fyra självbiografier skriThe purpose of this study was to get a deeper understanding of men who are exposed to domestic violence by their female partners. We have examined the embedded norms related to the fact, that a man gets beaten by a woman, and how these norms have affected these men’s views on their role and their choice not to seek assistance to get out of their situation. The empirical data has been collected thr

Sammanfattning “Bemanning” är idag ett inarbetat begrepp som innebär att ett bemanningsföretag anställer personal för att hyra ut dessa till att utföra arbete hos ett kundföretag. Det betyder att det normala anställningsförhållandet mellan en arbetsgivare och en arbetstagare får en tredje involverad part. Branschen har växt sedan början av 90-talet och har kommit att bli en allt mer etablerad del Abstract The staffing agency is today a well-known concept. Staffing agencies hire employees in order to rent them out to companies to fill vacancies on the market. This means that the traditional employment relationship between the employer and the employee now often involves a third party. The industry has grown since the early nineties and has become an established part of the labour market due

The purpose of this study was to analyze school counselors perspective on a preventive work with cyberbullying and social media in order to understand how they, in a digital age, perceive their professional role and discretion in a work with social media and preventing cyberbullying. A qualitative study was undertaken which included six semistructured interviews with school counselors who work wit

Mental illness and stress among young people is an increasing public health problem in Nordic countries such as Sweden and is a relevant subject in social work. The increase is most evident among young people, which is something that today's professions address in their respective journals as problematic, this is the foundation of our thesis. The purpose of this study was to investigate how co

This study explores the connection between the indoor and outdoor environment and how through the use of shading devices they affect each other. The chosen location for the study is a well-known street in the urban context of Copenhagen. Through different façade and shading evaluations, this thesis aims to investigate the possibility of achieving desired visual and thermal comfort levels for the i

The Story of the Refugees: A Qualitative Analysis of how Refugees and Refugeeism are Portrayed in Contemporary Picture Books The aim of this study is to examine how refugees and refugeeism is portrayed in contemporary picture books. The study takes an intersectional and a discursive perspective, investigating how power structures and categories such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class inte

Under sommaren 2016 slog mobilspelet Pokémon Go igenom världen runt inom loppet av dagar. Samtidigt präglades världen av oroligheter i form av politisk instabilitet och diverse humanitära kriser. I den här uppsatsen ämnar jag undersöka varför Pokémon Go blev ett globalt fenomen ur ett antropologiskt perspektiv. För att besvara detta undersöker jag till en början bakgrunden till spelet med parallel

Handball - as an arena for integration? : A qualitative interview study of an integration project started by a handball club The purpose of this study was to understand how the project HAF works with integration for the participating children. The study is based on six semi-structured interviews with people working with the project. We interviewed the project manager, a principal, a handball trai

Sammanfattning Denna uppsats har fått sin grogrund från medieuppmärksamhet kring utvisningar av arbetskraftsmigranter. Enligt medierna beror utvisningarna på små fel från arbetsgivarens sida som gör att de inte uppfyller kraven i Utlänningslagen för att få sina arbetstillstånd förlängda. Det har därav blivit av stort intresse att undersöka saken vidare för att få en klarhet i det som försiggår i vSummary This thesis has been established due to the observations reported by the media concerning the subject of deportation of migrant worker in Sweden. According to the media, the reasons behind these deportations are due to insignificant errors made by the employers that contribute to the fail of fulfilling the conditions for granting the extension of work permit in accordance to swedish Alien

Inom marknadsföring är det en ständig kamp att framställa varumärken som det bästa där det är vanligt att locka med diverse gåvor och belöningar för att försöka få lojala kunder. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om en belöning (choklad) kunde påverka studenters attityd gentemot designen på olika reklambilder. Närmare bestämt om attityden kunde påverkas av belöningen men också om det skiljer siWithin marketing there is a constant struggle to promote brands as the best and it is common practice to promise various gifts and rewards in an attempt to attract loyal customers. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether a reward (chocolate) could influence students' attitudes towards different ads. Specifically, if the attitude could be influenced by the reward but also if it diff

The human rights regime and the trade regime set obligations on states that may create conflicts that challenge a state’s autonomy for policy and regulatory practices. To deal with these conflicts, we argue that states employ different causal mechanisms from Risse, Ropp and Sikkink’s spiral model when setting their commitments to, and executing compliance with, these regime obligations, and that t