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The purpose of our essay, was to examine how it's like for a child growing up with a psychiatric disordered parent. We have chosen to see this from two perspectives, the professionals who meet children with a psychiatric disordered parent in their work, and now grown-up children who have own experience of this. Our questions were: - How did the childhood with a psychiatric disordered parent lo
Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka varför ett stort antal utredningar avslutas utan att familjerådslag hållits. För att kunna besvara denna frågeställning ställs ett antal frågor: · I vilken utsträckning upplever familjer, vars barn utreds av socialtjänsten, att de informeras om familjerådslag? · Varför tackar familjer nej till familjerådslag? · Hur ser barnens vårdnadshavare på att släkt och nätve
In a long time homosexuality has been a taboo. During the last century the attitude to homosexual people in Sweden has changed, e.g. today homosexual couples can be proved for adoption. But there are still prejustices and negative attitudes left. Most of the people who discover that they are interested in people with the same sex start as a teenager to consider if they are homosexual or not. The t
The purpose of this study was to examine what kinds of knowledge staff within psychiatry have regarding self-injury among girls and how they work with these patients. Our questions was how self-injury is defined, which girls have self-injurious behaviours, what the reasons are of self-injury among girls and how the staff work with these girls in the psychiatry. The essay was based on qualitative i
The purpose of our essay was to find out if it is possible to explain a drug-abuser's way out of her abuse by using different theories and concepts. The following questions were raised: Did the woman identify herself as a drug-abuser or did she try to maintain identities, which are connected with other groups in society and if so, did she experience any problems when quitting the habit and sta
Purpose The purpose of this essay was to investigate the welfare level of five visually handicapped children and their families. I want to illustrate the obstacles and possibilities there are for the visually handicapped children to take part of the welfare that's indicated in the Swedish Government Official Report (SoU 2001:55). I also want to give a picture of the support the society gives t
The purpose was to examine action research in order to see if this form of research could be used in the work of the council Södra Innerstaden to describe and map the livingarea Södra Sofielund/Seved together with the people living in the area. Questions asked was: What is action research? How could an action research project be done in the work of Södra Innerstaden to describe and map the livinga
The purpose with this essay was to examine and raise a child perspective on the inset home therapy. The purpose also included to get more knowledge about how much children in middle childhood are involved in investigations and social acts, and most of all when it comes to those measures that includes children themselves. We studied this from three different perspectives: one socialworker perspecti
The purpose of this study was to describe the outcomes of the clients with addiction problems who cease to have contact with a social welfare agency (Vuxenenheten), in relation to the task and aims of the organisation. The study indicated that in total, 90 clients with addiction problems leave the contact with the social welfare agency in a year, which gives a turnover of clients about 25 %. Of th
The purpose of the essay was to describe the use of drugs among adolescents in Sweden. Special emphasis has been laid on the differences between boys and girls. Central questions were: How to define drug abuse among adolescents? In what way has the use of drugs changed over time? Does the use of drugs differ between boys and girls? In what ways? The study was based entirely on secondary data. Alth
The main purpose of this essay was to find out what motivates immigrants to start their own business. We decided to study the local immigrant-owned pizzarestaurants in Halmstad, Sweden. We choose to conduct a questionnaire and a couple of interviews, which was a complementary to extend our understanding. We wanted to get their view of motivations behind the choice to run their own business. We als
This essay means to examine England and Wales juvenile prisons, how the judicial system and the system for imprisonment are constructed. It also means to clarify the background to this system, as well as what the theory for imprisonment of children is based on. In our essay we use a qualitative method, mostly based on written research, but we also use our own empirical study of Huntercombe Young O
The purpose of this essay is to se if the mental illness of Swedish children has deteriorated or if it is a rhetorical issue. Are the newspapers overreacting and spreading the wrong messages?. Children seeking relief have increased, and the queues are long to get an appointment to a psychiatrist at the children- and youth psychiatry clinic. The daily newspapers are reporting that the numbers of gi
The aim of this essay was to find out how children are paid attention to by staff at emergency wards, when a close relative unexpectedly passes away. We had five questions to help us to reach our aim: · How can helpers work with children in acute crises? · How can children in crises react? · What apprehension does children have of death during different ages? · How much should children participate
The purpose of this study was to investigate how immigrant mothers in Sweden view their social network and how they think their social network affects their parenthood. The study is based on a qualitative method. We interviewed eight immigrant women with children under the age of 18. During the interviews we used maps of networks in order to get a clearer picture of the size and the structure of t
The purpose with this essay was to examine and understand factors with great importance for the new employed social welfare secretaries' integration into their working environment. It was a qualitative study done with eight interviews and as a result it gave us the social welfare secretaries' experiences. We proceeded from following questions: o What kind of reception does the new employed
The aim with this paper is to trying to give its reader an insight into the alleged abuse at institutions for children that was run by various religious orders of the Catholic church in Ireland. My research is mainly based on the 20th century, but I have also taken earlier centuries into account in order to get a wider picture of the development of the service provided by the religious orders. I h
The purpose of this assignment was to examine how two different workplaces are dealing with alcohol- and drugquestions among their employees. Key questions were: how is the work with alcohol- and drugquestions organised? how is the chosen organization carried out? and which are the possibilities and inconveniences in the work? The method used in this essay was semi-structured interviews with six r
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