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This study is based on nine interviews with counsellors in habilitation and education as well as teachers in special schools, with the goal of studying the extent to which the theoretical models of normalization - as formulated by Bengt Nirje (2003) and Wolf Wolfensberger (1972) - apply to their daily work of supporting and preparing mentally retarded youngsters for transition to adult life. The c
The threat of change and the loss it can incur creates the need to preserve a detailed version of the past. Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford can be interpreted as a piece looking backwards as a means of looking forward; acknowledging and commemorating the existence of a rich and detailed past allows for the closing of its chapters, and thus eventual movement into a new future. In this paper I will
This Master’s thesis in library and information science deals with the relationship between research and practice of information literacy education. Information literacy is a common field of research and many theories and models have been developed through the years. The concept is widely used in society and one goal for educational institutions is to train students to become information literate.
Detta projekt syftar till att undersöka om det är möjligt att motivera användandet av teknik för förlängd hållbarhet, ESL, på konsumtionsmjölk genom en minskad miljöpåverkan, speciellt gällande distribution och spill. Trenden pekar idag mot ökande transporter för mejeriernas volymprodukter och dessa transporter jämförs för mjölk behandlad med ESL-teknik och vanlig pastöriserad mjölk. Utöver detta
The power of social services, involving there line of work with care for young persons with problems, is often discussed in negative terms by the general public and has gotten a great deal of attention, therefore we got interested of the social workers side of the story. The purpose of this study is to highlight social workers experiences of their power in their work with care for young persons wi
The purpose of this study was to find out how social workers handle and experience working with substance abusing women who are pregnant. We were interested in finding out how they experience their role as social workers in their professional relationship with the woman and how they look at the pregnancy in relation to motivation. Further on, we wanted to know their thoughts of how collaboration b
In the last couple of years the lack of housing and homelessness has increased in Malmö. At the same time there has been a discussion about the importance of housing as a part of the aftercare related to social work. Malmö has a goal stating that people that have stayed in hospital, treatment or served a prison sentence shall be offered a drug-free housing with a personalized support. We were inte
Ian McEwan's novels Atonement and Saturday open up for discussion of class. Present-day society gives people access to art and literature to a greater extent than before, which evens out the divisions of knowledge over class boundaries. McEwan seems to suggest that literature can pave the way for overcoming class differences through sympathy and identification. This essay aims to examine what
Abstract Abstract Author: Lama Akkache and Linnea Svensson Title: The professional meeting between social worker and client [translated title] Supervisor: Kristina Göransson Assessor: The purpose of this study was to examine if and how cultural differences between the social worker and client may have an effect on the professional meeting. More specifically the aim was to find out if the client a
The purpose of this study was to examine the work of clinical social workers. More specifically our aim was to perceive the knowledge and competence of clinical social workers using their own description of their work. The main questions that we address in this thesis are: How do the clinical social workers describe their knowledge and competence? What are the opinions of clinical social workers o
ABSTRACT Author: Aferdita Haxha, Anna-lena Hulander Title: ”Man måste brinna för att bli bränd” – en studie om en grupp kvinnors upplevelse av utbrändhet Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Assessor: Mats Hilte The aim with this essay was to examine seven women’s experiences regarding burn-out. Furthermore we looked at what emotions these women experienced during their burn-out period and how their rec
Utifrån Bourdieus (1977, 1990, 1995) förståelse av kroppslig och praktisk logik – med utvidgad förståelse av agentens handlingsutrymme – har jag genom fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer med kvinnor från ROKS-anslutna kvinnojourer diskuterat samhällsteorins samspel med praxis i det rumsliga görandet av socialt arbete. Genom uppsatsen utmanar jag förståelsen för det rumsliga ramverk inom vilket det By letting Bourdieu’s (1977, 1990, 1995) theory of bodily and practical logic – with a broader sense of the agent’s acting space – meet the data extracted from four semi-structured interviews made with women working at ROKS’ women’s shelters, this thesis explores the interaction between social theory and practice in the contextual making of social work. Throughout this thesis I challenge that cont
Syftet med studien var att undersöka vilka strategier personer med multiple skleros använder sig av för att handskas med sjukdomen då den innebär skiftande dagsform. Sju personer deltog i studien, två män och fem kvinnor. Studien hade en kvalitativ ansats och datainsamlingen skedde genom intervju med hjälp av en egengjord intervjuguide. Efter innehållsanalys identifierades tre kategorier och ett f
Denna studie undersökte korrelationen mellan romantisk anknytning och representationer av omvårdnad. Deltagarna var 56 föräldrar vars äldsta barn var mellan 1 och 6 år, och vars parrelation hade varat i minst 2 år. Hälften av deltagarna intervjuades med Caregiving and Attachment Interview (CAI), en semistrukturerad intervju om relationen till sitt äldsta barn. De genomförde även Experiences in CloThis study examined the correlation between romantic attachment and representations of caregiving. The participants were 56 parents whose oldest child was between the age of 1 and 6 years old and whose relationship with their partner had lasted for 2 years or more. Half of the participants were interviewed with Caregiving and Attachment Interview (CAI), a semistructured interview regarding their r
This paper gives an introduction to the pro and cons towards biofuel in the current international debate. The thesis is empirically based on fieldwork in Tanzania and presents a specific biofuel investment from the Swedish company SEKAB (Swedish Ethanol Chemistry AB). The location of fieldwork was in the Rufiji District where SEKAB plans to invest. The study’s focus is on the present quality of li
The purpose of the essay is to examine explanations offered by both police and social workers for street robbery committed by juveniles. Our conclusions are based on the findings from a series of semi structured qualative interwievs conducted with social workers and police from Landskrona and Malmö. These findings have been analyzed using hypotheses suggested by Merton´s anomie/strain theory and H
