During the last 10 years Sweden's municipalities have changed their eldercare organisation. From a traditional organisation with an executive official of aid who even had the staff responsibility in the execution to a separate or specialized organization where the official only have the exercise of public authority. The evaluators of aid (biståndsbedömare) have the title executive officials (b

The purpose with this essay was to examine what mental training can means to people. What they think of mental training before and after a training-course and in what way a course influence them and help them to handle their pain or problems. We got the possibility to join some lessons in a course at the hospital in Helsingborg held by Hans Olsson, a behaviourist and certified mental trainer. With

The purpose of this study was to illuminate 14-16-year old boys’ and girls’ conception of their father in a comparison between young people who are living with both of their parents and young people who are living with their single mother, but who are in contact with their father. The main questions were: o How are fathers conceived by young people who are living with their fathers, respectively n

The purpose of examining girls who are taken into charge according to the law (1990: 52) with special regulations concerning the care for young persons (LVU), their experiences of being at a locked investigation home. What we do is based on the following questions at issue: · How do the girls experience the time at the investigation home? · Do the girls feel involved and can influence the decision

The purpose of this study was to illustrate how adolescens from different ethnic groups look at their future. My questions at issues was: What is the adolescens life look like in twenty year considering: education, the worksituation, familysituation and connection with their country of origin? What's the meaning of the conception future for the adolescens? How do the dreamfuture fore the adole

The purpose with our essay was to study how comprehensive school work against bullying. The essay is written out of the perspective of the headmasters and the staff of the four schools. Our question at issue was: how defines the headmaster and the staff of the school bullying? What characterises the pupils who are exposed to bullying and the ones who expose others for it? What is detrimental with

Aims: The purpose of our master's thesis is to study the diversity discourse, used in Sweden, particularly the so-called ethnic diversity at the work place discourse. Our aims are to map and analyze the conceptualization of difference used in the diversity rhetoric. We intend to pursue our aim by studying the rhetoric of diversity, used for diversity promotion in the private and public sectors

The aim of this thesis was to highlight the experience of girls that were bullied during the senior level of secondary school and the consequences in relation to their adulthood. The thesis also addresses if the school organization was aware that the girls were bullied and allowed for the possibilities of bullying, in particular with respect to bullying amongst girls. Central issues: Why and where

My purpose was to illustrate how fathers themselves viewed their right to paternity leave and how this and fatherhood affected their roles as fathers and their roles as men. In order to obtain these facts I asked myself the following questions: How did the fathers view their possibility of paternity leave? Did they experience any limitations to their right? How did the fathers view their roles as

The aim of this study was to search for factors that have provided a significant change in the life of five girls, aged 18 to 24 at the time of the study, who was, or had been, sentenced to institutional care. Social service interventions for children and young people are guided by the Social Services Act (SoL), the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act (LVU), and the Parental Code (Föräl

This study deals with rights for the good care of the elderly in the municipalities of Scania. The study is meant to give deeper knowledge of citizen's charters for care, why such charters have been given and if they can be used to secure the quality of the care of the elderly today and in the future. To put these citizen's charters in a context I have chosen to study how the state after v

Gypsies are a group of people that have no state of their own but nevertheless are represented in most of the world's countries. The purpose of this study is to illustrate the plight of gypsies in Zagreb, Croatia. I also wish to give an insight into the housing and living conditions they endure. The main questions I used to help me with this study are: "What is the condition of their hous

Syfte med uppsatsen är att ta reda på hur skolkuratorns yrkesroll uppfattas av skolkuratorer själva och av andra yrkesgrupper i skolan. Frågeställningen är: Är skolkuratorns yrkesroll otydlig i skolan och vilka konsekvenser får det för skolkuratorn att bedriva socialt arbete i skolan? Avgränsande frågeställningar är: Vad är en skolkurator? Vilka samarbetsparter har en skolkurator och vilka relatio

The purpose of this essay was to examine the causes of stress and psychosocial unhealth in organizations, and shed light on which organizational and managerial elements that can prevent unhealthy stress and aid to a good psychosocial environment. I looked into the characteristics of a "healthy" organization and investigated how the management can contribute to a good psychosocial environ

Our purpose with this paper was to examine the school and class situation in form nine from the pupils' own perspective, and their thoughts about ending comprehensive school. The main questions were: How do pupils in form nine describe the best vs. worst about school? How do pupils in form nine describe the relations in their class? How do pupils in form nine describe their own role/position i

The purpose of this essay was to examine what some social workers, who handle social benefits, think about and how they answer the discussion that clients can feel that they have been humiliated in contact with the social welfare office. Our questions where: - What was the social workers opinion about the discussion? - Which factors the social workers regarded could be behind the clients feeling o

This essay concerns the legislation and legal procedures concerning the crime “rape”. We focus on rapes committed by young offenders and where young victims (girls) are involved. Media often presents a picture that raped girls don’t get a fair trial because she comes out as a bad looking girl in court. Our purpose has been to investigate and analyse rape from a historical and legal perspective and

The aim of this essay was to look into the youth political organizations view of possibilities and difficulties of the Swedish politics of narcotic, regarding the law of the criminalization of using narcotics. The questions of the study were: What possibilities and difficulties did the youth political organizations find regarding the law of the criminalization of using narcotics? What did the yout

This research investigates the factors influencing prisoners to choose to participate or not in Gnistan Addiction Activities at the Halmstad Prison. The factors included in this study were the importance of network, the type of treatment model, the atmosphere of the institution, the prisoners’ definition of addiction, plus experience with previous treatment. We chose a triangulation method using b

The purpose of this paper was to describe and analyze how the biological children of a foster home experience to live with foster children. Central issues were e.g. how the biological child experienced to share his or her parents with foster children, also if and how a new member of the family affected the relationships within the family. I performed my survey using a qualitative method. I intervi