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

The purpose with our essay was to examine and understand the import of treatment for drug abuse with Christian elements. Our study was based on a qualitative method and former written material about the subject. Ten persons were interviewed; persons in and after treatment, employed staff and social workers. The questions for our study was; what kind of background and current situation does the per

The purpose of this essay was to investigate the experience of alcohol intoxication for six students in Lund and what meaning and function alcohol has in their lives. The students were interviewed about their alcohol consumption; how they defined a problematic one, their experiences of alcohol intoxication, and its function and meaning. A qualitative method was used, as the purpose of the study wa

The purpose of this essay was to investigate if, and in that case, how the participation of the child appears and emphasizes in a Family Group Conference. The main questions were: How does the child experience the participation in a Family Group Conference? Does the child have opportunity to influence in its own situation? How does the informal social network and the formal social network (coordin

We have done a study concerning young women, in the ages of 20 to 30, and their thoughts about, consumption of, and habits regarding alcohol. The study is the base of our essay which has been done during the last ten weeks of the sixth semester (of seven) for the Bachelor degree of Social Work Science at Socialhögskolan in Lund. The study is built around five themes found in the essays purpose. El