The aim of our study was to examine society‘s attitudes towards the causes of homelessness and to identify where the responsibility lies. We have compared the attitudes of men and women and also analysed our results from the perspective of stigma. We have conducted our study in a training facility using questionnaires. We have investigated what people believe is the reason why individuals become h

Interpersonal processes - A quantitative study of how staff within youth welfare perceives the importance of the relationship with the youth in the treatment You occasionally meet the opinion that treatment within institutional youth care doesn’t work out well, even though the intentions of the care provided by SiS (The National Board of Institutional Care in Sweden) are that it shall. If the met

This essay is a part of the Program for Social Work 210 p, Lund University. Our aim with this study was to explore how the interaction and services around children of mentally ill parents functions. Two of the main questions have been: How does the interaction work between social services, child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry and a support group for children and young people around ch

Klimatet står inför en stor förändring i framtiden. Växthusgaser från transport och industrier ökar i atmosfären vilket i sin tur leder till en ökad temperatur. Den ökande temperaturen samt den förändrade nederbörden ger negativa konsekvenser för naturen. Det vi ser idag är de allt mer frekventa naturkatastroferna; storm, översvämningar och torka som drabbar vår planet. Naturen kan ta skada av detThe climate of the world is changing. The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are rising because of human activities. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that makes the temperature rise. Besides the temperature and carbon dioxide rise, also the amount of precipitation is changing in the world. These big changes mostly affect the nature negatively and possible also the forest. A long term stu

The reasons for the lack of access to essential medicines are manifold, but in many cases the high price of drugs is a barrier to needed medicines. The unaffordable prices of drugs are often the result of strong intellectual property protection. This thesis lay out the conflicts between patent right protection and access to medicine as human right, especially the impact of TRIPS Agreement on the a

The aim with this study is to examine how family law secretaries relate to and practice law in the context of family mediation. Family mediation is a supporting measure provided by the family law office to separted parental couples in conflict concerning the custody, housing situation or the right of access to their mutual child. The study is based on data from interviews performed with family law

The aim of this study was to examine and get an insight how social workers in social service consider about the use of discretion in their role as a professional. The study was based on interviews with seven social workers from two different local authorities working with economic aid or other kind of assistance in social service. Data of the interviews were coded and divided into three themes whi

The purpose of this study was to identify if and how the personal perspectives and views of social workers active within local social services departments in Sweden might affect how they carry out the transfer of children’s custody from biological to foster parents. The general discourse in child welfare in Sweden gives predominance to a family preservation perspective in which foster care placeme

The purpose of this study was to find out more about which role the school counselor has in the work against bullying and harassment. We also wanted to find out how the collaboration works in these questions between the school counselor and other school personnel, such as: the principal, school nurse and teachers. We wanted to get a deeper understanding of what it is like to be the only one with t

Abstract This essay presents a study of the different alternatives concerning ways of living elderly people have in Helsingborg’s municipality. The intention with the essay was to examine the different senior housing alternatives for people that’s not in need of care but needs more than their own home can offer, what the target group is, and why they are needed and also to examine aspects that cou

In these times, when global warming is escalating and the finite resources of the world are consumed in a fast pace, it is very important to find sustainable solutions for the near future. Transport is one of the sectors that need to find alternative solutions to the utilisation of fossil fuels. This master thesis investigates biogas production from ley crops, which is a mixture of different speci

The purpose of this study was to examine the collaboration between organizations that care for mentally retarded persons with added psychiatric problems when they have the need of institutional care in the psychiatry. I have both looked at which kinds of collaboration there are and then looked closer on the coordinated care plan. I’ve also looked at how the organizations adjust themselves after th

Bränder utgör en viktig roll i jordens system. Det är kritiskt för oss att förstå bränder och dess drivkrafter, för att på så sätt kunna förutspå brändernas förändring på grund av klimatförändring. Den här studien använder sig av Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) brandens area produkt MCD45A1 för att karakterisera bränder. Högupplöst data är omformaterad till 0.25° × 0.25° cellWildfires play an important role in the earth system. Understanding the relationship between wildfires and their drivers is critical for us to predict fire regime transformations under the changing climate and anthropogenic influences. This study used the novel Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) burned area product MCD45A1 to characterize wildfires. The high resolution data were

The purpose of this study was to analyze experiences from five social workers and three former criminal girls, how they apprehend young girls with a criminal risk-behaviour in the crime prevention work today. Another aim with this study was to analyze how our informants from Gothenburg thought the crime prevention work should be developed. The study was based on semi-structured inter¬views with fi

Metan är en effektiv växthusgas som har stor betydelse för det globala klimatet. Metanemissioner från våtmarker med underliggande permafrost anses bidra väsentligt till dynamiken som styr koncentrationen av metan i atmosfären på de nordliga breddgraderna. Under nedfrysningen av marken hösten 2007 uppmättes ett stort utsläpp av metan vid en mätstation på nordöstra Grönland. Mängden metan motsvaradeMethane is an effective greenhouse gas of vital importance to global climate. Methane emissions from permafrost dominated peatlands contribute significantly to the dynamics of the high-latitude atmospheric methane concentration. During the freezing period of autumn 2007 a large methane emission peak was recorded at a peatland in northeast Greenland. The integral of this abrupt peak was equivalent

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the social service and the adminisarative law reasoning out their decisions in cases concerning compulsory care of children under LVU §2. The aim was also to concider how to discern any similarities or differences in the two organizations way of reasoning. An content analysis is made on social service´s childcare investigations and the judgements made by

The aim of this study was to analyze in which ways the issue of privatization of welfare services has been reported and debated in Swedish media. More specifically its purpose was to explore how ideas and arguments were presented, and if the language use reflected ideological conceptions in the debate. The study was based on a selection of articles, collected from three of Sweden’s largest broadsh

The reality demands – framing of residential care for unaccompanied minors. The purpose of this study was to examine what factors that influence the framing of residential care for unaccompanied minors and how superintendents within the field view and approach the National Board of Health and Welfare’s policy regulating standards for “HVB-homes”, SOSFS 2003:20, as well as the concept of “HVB-home

The aim of this study was to explore the supportive and therapeutic practice with patients and their kin performed by the social worker within specialist palliative care. A qualitative research methodology was used where the social workers was asked to describe cases in which they were involved. We interviewed five social workers within specialist palliative care, all active in the southern region

The aim of this study is to attain a deeper understanding of how managers in the Swedish geriatric care motivate their employees. Another aim is to investigate if there exists any differences between public and private managers way of motivating. Questions of issue: How do managers motivate their employees? The empirical data has been gathered through four semi-structured interviews. Managers in t