The overall objective of this study was to investigate the social support provided by care managers to family caregivers of elderly adults receiving community based care under the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance scheme. The study has explored such support from the perspective of the care manager, and in relation to the overall role of the care manager. As such, the following research questions h

Titel: Mental beredskap för musikelever - Vad säger musiklärare om hur de arbetar med mental träning i sin undervisning. Studiens syfte är att belysa vad musiklärare säger om hur de använder mental träning i sin undervisning. Studien lyfter, genom kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra lärare som undervisar i musik och mental träning, fram dessa lärares tankar. Resultaten visar att lärarna upplever att Title: Mental preparedness for music pupils – what do music teachers say about how they work with mental training in their teaching? The purpose of this study is to see how music teachers who work with mental training and music teaching, perceive their work with mental training in their teaching. The study is based on qualitative interviews with four teachers, who teach music and mental training.

The purpose of this thesis has been to explore how school counselors work with and relate to sexuality in their work with youths. The study is based on qualitative interviews with four school counselors. Based on previous research the subject has been proved to be relatively unexplored, but it has been pointed out that sexuality is an important topic for youths and affects many different aspects o

Abstract Author: Anna Petersson Title: Professional tutoring- a quantitative study about relational aspects in professional mentoring (translated title). Supervisor: Matts Mosesson Mentoring has both a narrow and a broad meaning. In the literature professional tutoring often describes as a tool, where the mentors use established instruments, to support the professional in their career. I do believ

Runt om i Europa växer högerpopulistiska partier stadigt. Inom vetenskapen behandlas detta fenomen flitigt. Oftast utifrån ett perspektiv där man behandlar samhälleliga förutsättningar för dessa partier att växa eller utifrån ett kognitivt/psykologiskt perspektiv där man fokuserar på hur det i individen formas ett ”vi” och ett ”dem”. I denna uppsats anlägger jag ett annat perspektiv. Jag utgår ifr

Lagen om anställningsskydd har alltjämt sedan dess tillkomst 1974 gått ifrån sitt ursprungliga syfte, att skydda arbetstagare, i synnerhet äldre och sjuka, och deras intresse av trygghet i anställningen, till att alltmer tillgodose arbetsgivares intresse av effektivitet. Lagen ställer upp krav på att en uppsägning från arbetsgivarens sida skall vara sakligt grundad men begreppet är tudelat; om en The Employment Protection Act has, ever since its creation in 1974, moved away from its original purpose, to protect employees – especially the elderly and the sick – and their interest in job security, to increasingly meet employer's interest in efficiency. The law sets up the requirement that a dismissal from the employer must have just cause (or objective grounds). However, within this conc

Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur sex jazzmusiker upplever skillnaden mellan att spela och att öva, hur de ser på sitt spelande respektive övande och hur synen på dessa två begrepp har förändrats under årens gång, samt även vad de har för tankar kring distinktionen mellan de två begreppen. Sex professionella jazzmusiker intervjuades och resultatet från intervjuerna analyserades, kateThe purpose of this study is to investigate how six jazz musicians perceive the difference between playing and practicing, their ideas of playing and practicing and how their understanding of the two words has changed in the course of the past years, and also what they think of the distinction between playing and practicing. Six professional jazz musicians were interviewed and the results of the i

This essay is based on a qualitative study about parents’ involvement in children’s treatment in residential care. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with professionals working at institutions for youth between the age 13-20 and litterature related to the chosen subject. The purpose of this essay is to examine how the professionals reason about parents’ involvement in residential yo

Authors: Emelie Dahlstedt & Nadja Bjärenstam Title: ”…to apply for an adoption for your own child.” - a qualitative study of same-sex parenting and second parent adoption. Supervisor: Frans Oddner Assessor: Tove Harnett The aim of the study was to examine how same-sex parents perceive and construct their parenting in a second parent adoption. The empirical material consisted of six semi-s

Abstract Title: Ungdomars upplevelser av ungdomstjänst och dess meningsfullhet Author: Maddis Hashemzadeh Supervisor: Roberto Scaramuzzino The purpose with this essay has been to describe and understand what experiences young people have of community service and if they feel that the community service has been meaningful for their future mindset of commit a crime. Community service for youth pe

Uppsatsen studerar de borgerliga värderingarna i det sena 1800-talets Malmö genom dödsrunor i Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten för 1880 och 1890. Den under söker följande frågor 1. Vilka fick dödsrunor i Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten? 2. Vilka egenskaper, handlingar, karaktärsdrag och resultat framhävs och vilka fält berör de? 3. Finns det en separation mellan offentligheten-hushållet, eller me

The aim of this study was to explore and get an insight in unaccompanied youth experiences of being a part of sport teams in Sweden. I wanted to investigate how the youths described their experiences. Also I wanted to investigate the significance the participation had for their situation here in Sweden. I conducted three semi-structured interviews with unaccompanied youths that were active in some

Syftet med denna uppsats är att finna faktorer vilka uppmuntrar manlig klädkonsumtion. Vi genomförde en fallstudie där studieobjektet var shoppingintresserade män och arenan en herrklädesbutik. En kvalitativ metod applicerades; åtta semi-strukturerade intervjuer med butiksägare och stamkunder genomfördes, samt nio timmars icke-deltagande observationer i butiksmiljön. För att förstå männen användes

I reportaget gör berättarjaget en fysisk resa till södra Småland där han träffar och intervjuar ett antal 100-åringar. I dessa trakter bor det dubbelt så många 100-åringar än risksnittet och kallas en svensk "blå zon". Utifrån hundraåringarnas berättelser och erfarenheter gör berättarjaget även en inre resa: där han reflektektera,kollar upp vetenskapliga resonemang och tittar den förmoda

This study aimed to measure implicit and explicit prejudice towards transpeople among Swedish-speaking men. A new picture IAT (Implicit Association Test) was created in a pilot study to measure implicit attitudes towards gender transgressing males. In the main study, 66 male participants were divided into control and experimental groups. The manipulation consisted of two different gender presentat

Abstract The aim of this research was to peruse the verdicts of custody disputes were violence against the mother has occurred. In 2005, a study by Barnombudsmannen presented a result that showed that 43 % of custody disputes were domestic violence occurred was convicted joint custody. The result leaded to a restriction of Swedish family law in 2006. This study therefor aims to examine how the cou

The aim of this study is to discuss and analyze how recruiters in the Swedish social service look at gender in social work and how that approach can effect male and female social workers in the labor market. We also aimed to examine how the Swedish law of discrimination (Diskrimineringslag 2008:567) can affect social work. The importance of this study was to create a critical discussion about the

There is an increasing shift of hope from international negotiations to local actors for promoting sustainability by ‘thinking globally while acting locally’. Municipalities are such carriers of hope, taking on increasing responsibility as implementers of sustainability. The problem is that sustainability is a social construction site, and implementing it means ‘making it up as you go’. With this