The present essay is a fieldstudy in the vouchersystem in in-home elderlycare in the municipality of Nacka near Stockholm carried out in April 2004. The system is a relativly new model for organising elderlycare in Sweden. Our main purpose has been to investigate elderly peoples´ options within the system. The questions which interested us were the following: Who chooses and how? Is the choice inf

The aim of this essay was to examine and describe, from how it finds expression among professionals, factors of protection for refugee children that promote well-being and a favourable development in their new country. By interviewing professionals and by using a salutogenetic perspective this was investigated. My results show that there are four themes of factors that are of importance. Factors d

The purpose of this study was to illustrate the differences between the women's shelter movement's two national organisations, ROKS and SKR. I wanted to explore the background and emerge of the two national organisations and why ROKS where divided. The questions relevant for this study were: Which were the reasons for dividing ROKS? What questions does the two national organisations put th

The purpose of this essay is to summarize the on going debate concerning pension systems in the world. The questions asked were A) Can we identify any major trends in pension schemes regarding private/public components? B) How can we describe the underlying causes of their occurrence? The method used was to study, parts of, the written literature on the subject. What the writers of the essay found

The purpose of our paper was to look at a group of drug addicts living arrangements in a small community in the south of Sweden, Höganäs. The addicts all had a contact with the social services and they all had a permanent living arrangement during the time we were doing our paper. The paper was done accordingly to the quality method and we interviewed six clients and three social workers. Our conc

“Ripples in the water” is a qualitative research of eight family members´ experiences of the service they received from the psychiatric departments in the University Hospital in Iceland when one of the family became mentally ill. The eight participants in the research came from families, who had the total of six mentally ill patients. I conducted a total of six interviews with these participants,

The purpose of this essay was to find out how a selection of the clients at a social welfare office experienced the treatment of them, and the information given to them when they were confronted with demands from the "arbetslinjen". The purpose was also to find out if there were any significant differences in the experiences from the clients different backgrounds. This was realized by a

The purpose of this study was to describe and investigate the system of support to parents as it is motivated in Swedish officials’ reports 1972-1997. The main research questions of the study where: Which conceptions about parenthood appear in the officials reports? Which conceptions are expressed about the responsibility between the individual and the state referring to the support system to pare

The purpose with my essay was to try to find out if there are homeless families in the city of Lund. The questions I wanted to find answers to were the following: Does the problem with homelessness among families with children exist in Lund? Which are the people who become homeless? In what way can they obtain help? What is it that leads to homelessness? What reasons are there to it? The method I

The purpose of this essay has been to explore the contribution of pupil assistant to children with need of special support at school. My questions were: - When does the principal of the school consider that special needs exist? - What particularly needs requires getting the support of a pupil assistant? · How is the organisation structured and which are the purposes with the support? - Which metho

The purpose of this essay was to examine how immigrants of the first generation experience the integration in to the swedish society from the six factors: identity, culture, language, codes, individualism/holism and network. Our questions were: What does integration mean to the immigrant? Does the immigrant feel integrated and what is it that contributes to the fact that she feels or not feels int

The purpose of my thesis was to examine the conscious and unconscious role of compulsory school in drug prevention work. I considered five topics: objective, methods, environment/relations, sender and target group. Essential questions within the topics were: What elements in compulsory school work preventive on children's drug use? What are the possibilities of reinforcing drug prevention work

This master thesis has as purpose to answer the question how youths feel about and describe their contact with the social services. Can we, as socialworkers, claim that they have been listened to and do the youths, themselves, feel that they have been participating? The criteria for being a part of this studie has been youths between 15-18 years old, who have been part of investigation according t

Men´s violence against women is a wide social problem with its origin in the unequal balance of power in society, where men dominate and women are oppressed because of their sex. On the basis of feminist theory, our purpose has been to analyse whether it is possible for a "feministic organization’’ (according to themselves), supported by the male dominated state, to carry out feministic polit

The purpose of this paper was to establish what possible set of problems might be associated with three different types of social care available to young people. I chose to study institutionalised care, foster care and home-based intervention. Through interviews with three social workers, my aim was to answer the following questions: - What set of problems related to the teenagers tend to generate

The purpose with our essay was to examine which risk- and protective factors that exist for children of alcoholics. We wanted to increase our understanding and knowledge about the situation of these children. It is a literary study, which covers the most frequently quoted results in the field of research. The questions for our study were; which risk factors can one as a parent with alcoholic abuse

The aim of this essay was to try and reach an understanding of the difficulties one encounters when working with people who are drug and/or alcohol abusers and who simultaneously suffer from a mental disorder of some kind. My analysis also included the problems encountered when dealing with the two different authorities that are responsible for these people. I have made use of the following questi

The purpose of this assignment was to illuminate what some young boys consider as manliness, which male role models they have and how they look upon their future as men. Central questions were how they look upon manliness, how a man should be, how they want to be as young boys and grown men and which male role models they have. I have used a qualitative method; I have been interviewing seven boys

The purpose of this composition was to find out, from a child’s point of view, where, what and with whom children play. Our ambitions were also to examine if perspectives like gender, ethnicities and different types of housing will strike off the children’s play. Our main questions regarded the signification of language in choice of playmate, the resemblance and difference in girls respectively bo

This paper addresses the first psychological attachment between parents and children. If problems should arise, support is offered via a special infantsupport department. The aim with this study was to, on an individual level and focusing on the mothers, establish how the mothers experienced the support they have been offered and how this support has influenced their relationship to their child as