Bakgrund: Arbetsterapeuter möter personer med olika sociala förutsättningar. Individer med lindrig kognitiv nedsättning upplever ofta sociala interaktioner som ett stressfyllt moment. I denna studie deltog personer med autismspektrumtillstånd och lindrig utvecklingsstörning, vilket benämns som lindrig kognitiv nedsättning. Den dagliga verksamheten i studien var ett café där deltagarna arbetade til

Studier som har beskrivit upplevelser av aktivitet är många. Av de studier som hittades behandlades antingen könsrollerna i vardagen eller enbart kvinnors upplevelse av aktivitet. Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur män upplever sina vardagliga aktiviteter. En kvalitativ ansats användes och undersökningsgruppen bestod av åtta män i arbetsför ålder. Datainsamlingen skedde med hjälp av ett demog

En stor del av Östafrikas landsbygdsbefolkning är självförsörjande jordbrukare som på grund av begränsade markytor och förändrade klimatförhållanden riskerar misslyckade skördar och ökad fattigdom. I takt med att befolkningen växer blir miljöproblem som avskogning, erosion och urlakade jordar, samt övergödning av vattendrag och sjöar alltmer påtagliga. Syftet med den här studien är att kartläggaSub-Saharan Africa suffers from land degradation, depletion of natural resources and rural poverty. In the Lake Victoria Basin, where large parts of the population are small scale farmers, people are facing such issues coupled with altered climatic conditions. The focus area of this study is the Mara region in northern Tanzania, situated on the eastern lakeshore. Mara has experienced a doubling of

Abstract Author: Elisabet Loverde och Arbresha Rushiti Title: Participation – on who’s terms? A study of personnel participation and how it is affected by leadership. [translated title] Supervisor: Mikael Sandgren Assessor: Weddig Runquist The aim of our study was to clarifying the possibilities for personnel participation through the experiences of the staff itself. Our study took place in Miner

The aim of this study was to examine how social workers experienced their ability to affect what requirements were set on individuals receiving social assistance. The purpose was also to understand, from a social worker’s perspective, what use these requirements had and what role they played in the process towards self-sufficiency. The analytic framework used to understand our empirics, gathered b

Solidariskt ansvar har under lång tid tillämpats i Svensk lag i fall då flera personer ska svara för ett skadestånd. Det solidariska ansvaret innebär att en skadelidande kan kräva ut hela skadeståndet från endera skadevållaren. För att detta inte ska leda till orimliga slutsatser finns det dock tillfällen vid jämkade skadestånd då det solidariska skadeståndet ej används. I vilka jämkningsfall ett Joint and several liability has been used in Sweden for a long time when several people are held responsible for damages. Joint and several liability entails that a creditor can demand full compensation from any of the defendants. In order for this rule not to result in absurd consequences, there is an exception where mitigation of damages can lead to several liability instead. However, to what ex

Med näsa för kyla: hudtemperatur och köldreception hos hundar Förmågan att känna temperatur är viktigt för att kunna identifiera behagliga samt undvika farliga temperaturer. Hittills har forskningen kring hur däggdjur uppfattar, för oss, smärtsamt kalla temperaturer lett till fler frågor än svar. En av orsakerna till detta är sannolikt att försöksdjuren som normalt används inom temperaturforskniSensing temperature is important for identifying preferable temperatures and avoiding dangerous extremes. The cold pain limit of mammals in general is estimated to approximately 12 °C. I reasoned that such a skin temperature is unlikely to be sustainable in colder climates and studied cold-adapted dogs in northern Sweden using thermography. Skin temperature on the rhinarium (naked nose tip) was 2.

Abstract Author: Britten Nilsson Title: Equine Assisted Therapy – A qualitative study about the therapist’s experiences Supervisor: Anders Östnäs The main aim of this study was to examine how Equine Assisted Therapist´s experience the treatment, what different skills their clients develop and how the therapists describes the importance of the horse in the treatment. Qualitative semi-structured in

This thesis examines the different views on the phenomenon ”negrophilia” that existed in Paris in the 1920s. It's precise meaning is ”love for the black culture” and the art illustrations analysed are originated by the french artist Paul Colin. These posters with black people posing were designed as commercials for different theatre productions. During the time they arised they were an express

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The purpose of this study was to investigate how young unemployed individuals experienced and coped with their situation. It is a qualitative study conducted through interviews with four young unemployed people who all participate in a municipal project that helps young unemployed people to find a job. The interviews were conducted using a prearranged interviewguide. I applied Jahodas deprivation

A given to share equally when daddy wants to The aim of this study was to investigate parents who have decided to equally share their parental leave and how they came up to this decision. The aim has also been to see which effect the sharing of parental leave has had upon them in their everyday life. The study was based on qualitative interviews with both parties of three couples that had chosen

The purpose of this study was to understand what, according to social workers and people with criminal backgrounds in Panama, contributes to change in criminal behaviour amongst delinquent youth with focusing on projects using football, religion and community as changing means. The empirical data was collected according to micro-ethnographical requirements and consisted of twelve hours of observat

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate how doctors expresses themselves about the state of burnout in relation to gender. It was after reading about the subject on which the idea was created to investigate the physician's perspective on the area. This study is partial for to provide professional knowledge and understanding of the physician's view of the patient group, but also t

The aim of this paper was to increase our knowledge regarding the differences in abilities taught during education of social services´ secretaries and the abilities work at the social service demands. I have done this by investigating 70 job ads from the employment service and three educational plans from three different universities in Sweden. Through qualitative text analysis I have analyzed thr

The aim of the studie was to explore whether social workers in the social assistans handling income support, were experiencing that their work was influenced by New Public Management. The data was collected through four interviews with social workers and assesed through organizational theory. The perspectives used among organizational theory was mainly the human reasource, structural and political

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Presence outside of time- a phenomenological investigation of the interactive artwork Future Self by rAndom International. The aim of this essay to investigate the experience of the meeting between the spectator (myself) and Future Self, an interactive artwork by artists’ group rAndom International, shown at their exhibition Studies in Motion at Lunds konsthall in 2014. Future Self is made of a ha

The purpose of this study was to examine how external job-coaches consider themselves to perform their entrusted tasks from both the Employment Service's requirements and the jobseekers' needs and expectations. The empirical material consisted of seven semi-structured interviews with job-coaches from different private companies in southern Sweden. Based on the interviews we were able to fi

Threats, violence, bites and punches but not to be really beaten - A study of how nursing staff at a dementia ward define, manage and explain the residents’ action The aim of this study was to examine how nursing staff at a ward for elderly residents with dementia defined and related to situations and acts that could be defined as violent. The study was performed with a qualitative method based o