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The purpose of this essay was to describe and analyse how patients at a swedish methadoneprogramme have changed their lives since they enrolled the programme, and which significance their social networks have in their lives and in the changingprocess. The following central issues are discussed in the essay: 1. How do the interviewpersons describe their lives before they enrolled the methadoneprogr

Incan culture keeps indefatigably in attracting divergent scientific disciplins for research studies in it’s old cultural mysteries. One of it’s most challenging mysteries is the old Incan fortress Machu Picchu, situatated in the” old Vilcabamba Valley” of the grandiose Andes in Peru. Is it possible to get to know something of it’s mystery from a scientifically point of veiw ? Can a general view o

The purpose with our essay is to shed light on homeless womens vital conditions from two perspectives, the homeless women and different professionals whom in there profession deal with homeless women and their problems. To obtain this we used the following questions: Ø Under which vital conditions do the homeless women live and which survival strate-gies do they have? Ø What kind of response do th

Detta är en utvärdering av en metod som syftar till att utveckla och effektivisera samverkan mellan myndigheter i en kommun; Gemensamma Individuella Handlingsplaner, GIH. En grupp handläggare från fyra myndigheter har arbetat fram metoden inom ett delprojekt ingående i ett större lokalt samverkansprojekt, FRISAM. Projektet riktar sig till personer med många myndighetskontakter, försörjningsstöd oc

The aim of this study is to decribe social care in homes for elderly mentally frail people and by means of social-philosophical theories identify and analyse these in relation to practical working in social care. The quality study has been possible by the use of interviews with four care-workers and by participant observation. My opinion is that - regarding quality aspects - there isn´t enough tim

The purpose of this paper was to explain the project PROVE and the treatment given as well as to examine and clarify the manner in which the staff discuss and motivate their treatment methods within the various projects. The purpose was also to examine whether the staff's use of language is similar to that of government drug-addiction policy objectives and the discourse on addiction in society

The purpose of this paper is to examine the current "talk" about the concept of burnout. We want to examine the genesis of the concept of burnout, the different thoughts and directions that dominate the "talk" and how these directions stand in relation to the concept of burnout. We have noticed three main factors that, more or less, all the directions suggest as causes to burno

The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate and illustrate today’s line of thought regarding subutex and substitute treatment . The main issues that have been covered are: 1. How is subutex exposed in the media? 2. What are the attitudes towards subutex within different professional groups and organizations? 3. Where does Socialstyrelsen stand in relation to subutex? In order to answer the

The purpose of this field survey was to investigate the employees´ work against corporal punishment with parents from other cultures at child welfare clinics. My questions were: - Which cultural factors could affect this work? - Does the employees at the child welfare clinics experience any ethical quandary when they affect cultural valuations of the parents? - How do the employees at the child we

The purpose of our essay was to find out how the immigrated youth, experience, that Swedes around them look at them, as part of the group immigrants and how the Swedes look at them as individuals. We also wanted to know how the immigrated youth look at themselves and other immigrants. We interviewed eight students in the ninth grade who are immigrants. We came through our interviews to the conclus

The purpose of this essay is to describe some of the factors influencing the ability to see to the best interest of the child originating from article 3.1, in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states: " In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the

The aim of this essay was to describe and analyse factors of importance for the process of becoming drug-free. The questions we tried to answer were: "What did the lives of the interviewees look like at the moment?", "From what kinds of backgrounds did the interviewees come?", "What had the interviewees’ processes of change been like?" and "How did the interviewe

The main purposes of this essay was to identify motives for, and to study a project called "contractors in social welfare" introduced in the municipality of Stockholm in 2001. The aim of the project was to introduce quasi-markets in social welfare. We also intended to investi-gate whether there is a tendency towards vouchers within this project. The essay also contains a comparison betwe

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The purpose of this study was to see how the client with drug problems is described in written material from two social welfare offices. Our questions were: - Can there be found a common image of the client in the written material? - If so, what does this image consist of? - What can be the cause of a common image of the client in the written material? - Are there differences between the two socia

The purpose of this study was to illustrate the problems with relapse as a concept from the point of view and experiences of staff in addictiontreatment programmes and social welfare secretaries. To attain this purpose we focused on the following questions: · In what way is relapse defined in the different discourses? · How does the different discourses view the individual responsibility in a rela

In the past decades there has been a progress in the legislation which regulates the rights of battered women. The social services are the authority which has the primary responsibility for battered women. This responsibility is regulated in the law since 1998. Evaluations have shown that the support for battered women needs to be improved since a majority of the rural districts don’t have any eme

The purpose of this essay was partly to study research of drug-addicted women from a social constructive perspective, partly to describe and analyse the social construction of the drug-addicted woman in the scientists' studies of Sofia treatment institute. § What did the woman look like from a social construction perspective? § How did the scientists describe the woman's close relations du