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

The purpose of this study was to determine if and how a client is catalogued and described in a casebook. The questions at issue were what controlled the description of the child-client, what sort of picture that emerged and if you possibly could demonstrate a common picture of the client within the staff. The study was exploratory. By using Grounded Theory as a method to revise the empiricism, th

The purpose of this composition was to study children as participants in their own reality and their social life during recess in school. Our ambitions were, from children's point of view, and a perspective of gender, to find out the existence and expressions of groups, leaders and rules. Our main questions regarded group constellations, the presence of leaders and the importance of rules, and

The object of this study was to try to comprehend, how the rehabilitaion of individuals towards employment and beeing able to earn their own living, could be facilitated through co-operative actions from the concerned local authorities. This comprehension was founded on the narratives from individuals, about their needs and qualifications. In order to reach this object, I interviewed participants

Syftet med studien är att beskriva och söka kunskap om vad som händer i familjer när ett barn insjuknar i cancer. Familjernas egna upplevelser utgör utgångspunkten i våra försök att förstå deras situation vid tidpunkten för diagnosbeskedet under behandlingstiden och efter att den har avslutats. Vårt intresse är främst fokuserat på hur behandlingen påverkar familjer med barn som har överlevt en can

The aim of this research was to study how adolecents view their future and to illuminate how family circumstances, class belonging, ethnicity and school influence this view. Our main questions was as follows: · How do the adolescents family circumstances look like? · What importance has family and friends for the adolescents? · How does the adolescents choice of upper secondary school look like? ·