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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of child perspective, from the view of the social worker including its interpretation and its application in Social Welfare. Questions: What's the meaning of a child perspective from the angle of the social worker? How can this perspective be seen in the work of the social worker? How is the course of action of the social worker in h
The aim of this essay was to study the new voluntary organization PO-Skåne and personal agents work. PO-Skåne is an independent organization and which works for persons who are seriously mentally disabled. The personal agents work involves two roles: advocasy and case management. Some of the questions I study were: - The aim of the organization. - The structure and the work methods of the organiza
This thesis is written within the Master Program of the School of Social Work at the University of Lund, and comprehends ten educational points. My purpose was to study the encounter between the concept of empowerment and the Swedish Social Services. Using the strategy of case study, I examined a Welfare Office’s experiences of empowerment in order to find out how the Social Services interpret emp
The purpose of this essay was to describe and compare the Swedish and Danish societies' attitude towards narcotics in regard of social efforts against drug abuse. When it came to social efforts, we were in particular interested in comparing Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark. The questions we used was: - Under what circumstances did the present politics of narcotics develop in Denmark a
The purpose of this paper was to describe and analyse why some people abuse anabolic steroids and through that increase the understanding for this problem. · Why do some people choose to begin with anabolic steroids? · Where does the first contact with the drug take place? · How does the users affect by anabolic steroids? · Is it possible to be addicted to anabolic steroids? The paper was drawn fr
The purpose of this essay was to examine and compare Swedish and Danish legislation about prostitution and what the work around prostitution looks like in Malmö and Copenhagen. The main questions are: What does the Swedish legislation about prostitution looks like in comparison to the Danish legislation? What does the practical work around the prostitutes in Malmö looks like in comparison to the w
Sweden has a tradition of a strong social legislation regarding child protection. However at the ratification of the Convention on the rights of the Child of 1990 there surfaced a need for certain alterations in the Swedish social legislation. A decade later the BO (Children's ombudsman) felt that the change took place too slowly and also that the Convention was still virtually unknown to the
The purpose of this essey was to examine the latemodern family and what impact the latemodern family life has had on the children. This has been achieved by taking the concept of family and individualization as a starting point, and viewed in the light of a historical retrospect. My questions at issue were: · What processes in the development of society has contributed to create the conditions of
The purpose of this paper was, from a mainly youth perspective, to study how pupils experience ART training and also if they, their teachers and their ART trainer can notice any changes in the pupils behavior connected to ART. The main issues of the paper were: · How do the pupils find the ART training? · What changes in behavior connected to ART do the pupils experience? · What changes in the pup
This essay focus on the actions three corporations in the city of Halmstad engaged when alcohol- and drug abuse were discovered among their employees. Important questions were the judicial obligations toward employees, knowledge on alcohol- and drug abuse within the company, alcohol- and drug policies, differences in actions according to type of abuse, reasons for dealing with employees with alcoh
When a young person commit a serious crime today, the consequence can be that the court decide an imprisonment punishment. But instead of sending young people under eighteen years to prison, they send them to particular juvenile institutions who have special departments called LSU or inpatient care of juveniles. These special LSU-departments duty is to take care, treat and look after the juveniles
The purpose was to determine, firstly the existing structures and organisations in Trelleborg municipality, and secondly which methods were used in the works that prevent and fight juvenile problems. Central issue was: · Which type of organisation, when working with preventing juvenile problems, were used by the different activities in Trelleborg municipality? Regarding type of organisation, focus
In this study, thirteen persons, eight women and five men working as supervisors, have been interviewed. All of them were managers of homecare workers or managers of residential homes for elderly in Halmstad. The aim of the study was to examine managers’ experiences of work conditions. The interviews lasted for 25 minutes to an hour and were taped and fully transcribed. The interviews were then an
För att socialtjänsten skall kunna ge sina klienter en god service är det viktigt att veta vad klienterna tycker om servicen. Socialtjänsten vid Karmøy kommun har en tanke om att oavsett vilken service som ges till klienterna i dagsläget, finns det alltid möjligheter till förbättring. Enkätundersökningen "Si din mening om sosialtjenesten 1999" var ett sätt att skaffa en aktuell översikt
The purpose of this essay was to investigate how multiproblematic families get in contact with treatment units offering family therapy in Lund and especially which theories and methods the therapists use. To pursue this study, literature was searched in libraries, on the internet and six persons, working therapeutic with families in six different treatment units, were interviewed. The result of th
My purpose with this essay has been to illuminate the method of treatment in two institutions who claims to be working with a salutogenic line of thought. The target group has been youth delinquents, 15 to 20 years old. My central questions has been; What does the concept of salutogenes and the salutogenic factors mean? What can the method of treatment with a salutogenic line of thougt bring to th
This study is about supervisors in municipal old-age care. The aim was to describe and attempt to understand what some supervisors in their words and actions are trying to express concerning their work and their work situation. This study was an empirically based investigation using a qualitative approach; the data collection methods comprised of interviews and observations as well as discussion a
The purpose of this paper was to describe and analyze the European labor market policy and its implementation in two countries, i.e. Sweden and the Czech republic. The central questions were: Why was a European labor market policy formed? What are the main strategies of the policy for increasing the degree of occupation? How do people work in Sweden and the Czech Republic so that the EUs demands a
