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This is a qualitative study of how personal assistants (working with disabled) experience their "occupational role" that is created by and formulated during their counselling (or supervision). The empirical base consisted of interviews. In my analysis, I used Goffman’s "dramaturgical approach", an approach that views social life as performances similar to those performed at a t
The purpose of this Thesis was to let a group of six Maori single mothers, depending on Social Welfare, tell the story about their lives, their dreams and thoughts about the future. The queries at issue dealt with topics such as the interview persons (IPs) economy, living standard and family constellations. Other questions dealt with reasons for getting and staying on Social Welfare, interactions
The purpose of this studie was to explore how the conception of the family is constructed, by doing a discourse analysis of texts from three differente perspective which are dealing with the family concept, and to difinite the areas where the discourses don´t agree. The three perspective was: Feminism, psykoanalysis and late modern sociology. My method was discourse analys. A discourse can be disc
The aim of this essay is to describe and analyse the experiences of adults growing up with alcohol abusing parents and how their adult life have been affected by this fact. The questions dealt with were as follow: - How does parent alcohol abuse affect the every day life of children and young people? - What survival strategies do children of alcohol abusing parents develop? - In what way does the
Purpose : The purpose of this paper is to illustrate children's experience of participation and consent in decisions making in social service. Questions: Did the children experienced that they where participated in the investigation, the decision and the measure that followed? Were the children allowed to take part in the decision about which measure the result of the investigation should be?
The aim of this study was to investigate the alcohol-culture within the restaurantbusiness. Our main questions were: What is the personnel in the restaurantbusiness´ attitude towards: · Alcohol and its consumption? · The function of alcohol in the society? · The function of alcohol among the staff? · Drinkinghabits among the staff? · Being at risk of alcoholabuse? · Alcoholpolitics? To answer thes
The purpose of the essay was to investigate how former foster children view their childhood and the consequence it may have for the adult person. Focus was on the importance of risk- and protective mechanisms as well as relationships. The method was qualitative personal interviews with seven former foster children. Important questions were: the time in the foster home, family of origin, important
Traumatic experiences, from war and persecution, lead to different natural crisis reactions. The duration and composition of these reactions determine whether the diagnosis posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be made or not. We were interested in how foreign children with a traumatic past are getting on and taken care of in a multinational school in Sweden (age six-16). Our main questions wer
The aim of this master's thesis was to study how children experience counselling groups at school. My questions were: HASH(0x12677f0) The theoretical approach was group psychology, gender theory and dynamic developmental psychology. I used qualitative interviews to gather the empirical data. The main results of the study are the following: The children that have been interviewed all experien
The objective of this essay was to shed light on the problems concerning social policy and employment issues involved in the Czech Republic's accession process into the European Union. Central questions asked was; What does the social policy of the EU, the same policy the Czech Republic is adjusting to, look like? What kind of problems is the Czech Republic experiencing with the adjustment? Ar
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The aim with this essay has been to illuminate different health perspectives, social work and the concept of salutogenesis. My central questions have been: What is the meaning of the concept of health? In what way is the concept of salutogenesis related to different concept of health? How can the concept of salutogenesis be a framework theory for social work? My method has been a qualitative theor
The phenomenon murder, in the name of honor, you can describe in several different ways. The purpose with our work was trying to describe honor related crimes from the investigators perspective. From the valid discourses we were looking for answers about how a social worker understand girls crying for help and what aspects are determine in the judge for a propitiate measure. During our work with t
The purpose of this project was to investigate what is causing early disturbances in the mother- and infant relationship and what sorts of treatments are available. Our main questions where: -What does the development within infant research say about when it comes to the importance of early relationships? -What is causing the disturbances in the mother- and infant relationship seen from an attachm
Kagera region is the most severely AIDS affected region in Tanzania. With its more than 150.000 AIDS orphans, which is 1/3 of the children of the region, the disease lays a heavy burden on society and on peoples' lives. It has a crucial demographical and economical impact on the society. It kills the productive part of the population and leaves the orphans without financial and psychological s
The purpose of this essay was; to shed light on men's and women's experiences and feelings being sibling to an abuser of narcotics and to visualise if these experiences and feelings have any connection with growth conditions. Essential questions were; - How are growth conditions described in families where a child is an abuser of narcotics? - How is the relation described between the abuse
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The purpose with this research is to comprehend the function of a local Victim Support Service in comparison to other local organisations, and also to receive a deeper understanding of the function role of the crime victim in the supportive work, and with this information interpret and analyse the work with crime victim on a local level. The research is based on six qualitative interviews, previou
The purpose with this paper is to illuminate a strategy that successfully helps individuals to reconstruct their ability to work and take them out of a condition of burnout. I have chosen to describe the way out of illness, from the individuals stricken with illness’ point of view. The common treatment for the burnout syndrome is often focusing on the interaction in the place of work. The research
This paper concerns the issue about juvenile delinquency and how social problems are constructed. The purpose has been to explore the debate about juvenile delinquency in Denmark and Sweden with the following sub-questions; which possibilities does the legislation give to put young people in institutional care by force? What problems are debated about juvenile delinquency in Denmark and Sweden tod
