The aim of this study was to search for factors that have provided a significant change in the life of five girls, aged 18 to 24 at the time of the study, who was, or had been, sentenced to institutional care. Social service interventions for children and young people are guided by the Social Services Act (SoL), the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act (LVU), and the Parental Code (Föräl

This study deals with rights for the good care of the elderly in the municipalities of Scania. The study is meant to give deeper knowledge of citizen's charters for care, why such charters have been given and if they can be used to secure the quality of the care of the elderly today and in the future. To put these citizen's charters in a context I have chosen to study how the state after v

Gypsies are a group of people that have no state of their own but nevertheless are represented in most of the world's countries. The purpose of this study is to illustrate the plight of gypsies in Zagreb, Croatia. I also wish to give an insight into the housing and living conditions they endure. The main questions I used to help me with this study are: "What is the condition of their hous

Syfte med uppsatsen är att ta reda på hur skolkuratorns yrkesroll uppfattas av skolkuratorer själva och av andra yrkesgrupper i skolan. Frågeställningen är: Är skolkuratorns yrkesroll otydlig i skolan och vilka konsekvenser får det för skolkuratorn att bedriva socialt arbete i skolan? Avgränsande frågeställningar är: Vad är en skolkurator? Vilka samarbetsparter har en skolkurator och vilka relatio

The purpose of this essay was to examine the causes of stress and psychosocial unhealth in organizations, and shed light on which organizational and managerial elements that can prevent unhealthy stress and aid to a good psychosocial environment. I looked into the characteristics of a "healthy" organization and investigated how the management can contribute to a good psychosocial environ

Our purpose with this paper was to examine the school and class situation in form nine from the pupils' own perspective, and their thoughts about ending comprehensive school. The main questions were: How do pupils in form nine describe the best vs. worst about school? How do pupils in form nine describe the relations in their class? How do pupils in form nine describe their own role/position i

The purpose of this essay was to examine what some social workers, who handle social benefits, think about and how they answer the discussion that clients can feel that they have been humiliated in contact with the social welfare office. Our questions where: - What was the social workers opinion about the discussion? - Which factors the social workers regarded could be behind the clients feeling o

This essay concerns the legislation and legal procedures concerning the crime “rape”. We focus on rapes committed by young offenders and where young victims (girls) are involved. Media often presents a picture that raped girls don’t get a fair trial because she comes out as a bad looking girl in court. Our purpose has been to investigate and analyse rape from a historical and legal perspective and

The aim of this essay was to look into the youth political organizations view of possibilities and difficulties of the Swedish politics of narcotic, regarding the law of the criminalization of using narcotics. The questions of the study were: What possibilities and difficulties did the youth political organizations find regarding the law of the criminalization of using narcotics? What did the yout

This research investigates the factors influencing prisoners to choose to participate or not in Gnistan Addiction Activities at the Halmstad Prison. The factors included in this study were the importance of network, the type of treatment model, the atmosphere of the institution, the prisoners’ definition of addiction, plus experience with previous treatment. We chose a triangulation method using b

The purpose of this paper was to describe and analyze how the biological children of a foster home experience to live with foster children. Central issues were e.g. how the biological child experienced to share his or her parents with foster children, also if and how a new member of the family affected the relationships within the family. I performed my survey using a qualitative method. I intervi

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the view on gender in drug treatment and how it manifests in the treatment. We have made a qualitative study with interviews. We have done interviews at different treatment centres, with a social worker and two scientists. In our interviews we focused on choice of treatment and gender. Our key questions were: · What do previous studies show about m

The purpose of this essay was to examine how girls aged between 16-17, born in Iran and raised in Sweden, see themselves in relation to their families and the Swedish society. Some of the questions we asked ourselves were: how do the girls relate to the Iranian culture; have the girls ever faced discrimination; is there a conflict between the Iranian values the girls meet at home and the Swedish v

The aim of this paper was to examine opinions among professionals on which refugee children have the best versus the worst conditions to attain a favourable adaption in their new country. This was investigated through the conceptions of resilience and in consideration of the importance of gender and different methods of treatment. I have found that there are three subgroups of factors that are of

The purpose of this study was to examine what importance the power of the authorities has on the profession of the social worker on the familycenter. The question at issue was: What do we in social work mean with authority power over the individual? What has the authority power for meaning at the familycenter? What meaning has the power for the social workers exercise of the profession at the fami

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka om en marknadsanpassad socialtjänst lyckas uppfylla socialtjänstlagens intentioner om att arbeta förebyggande med unga narkotikamissbrukare. För att få svar på detta har jag dels studerat hur en sådan kommunal organisation fungerar i förhållande till lagstiftningen, dels hur många ungdomar det rör sig om som under ett år kommer i kontakt med socialt

The aim of this study was to examine the reasons for children to attempt suicide. My questions were: - How did the child describe the way of the suicide attempt ? - The family situation of the child ? - Did the child has a connection to a social worker before the suicide attempt ? - The reasons for the suicide attempt given in the child pcychiatry journal ? - Did the whole family get psychoterapy,

The purpose of this essay was to describe and compare two different investigation methods of foster homes and if there is any connection between the investigation method and a breakdown. The two methods we have been examined are the Kälvestens-method and the PRIDE-method. The main questions have been: · How common is breakdowns in foster homes, national and in respective municipality? · How the Kä

The aim of this research was to study how pupils in the ninth grade in elementary school in Sweden choose their further education in the Swedish "gymnasium" and if anything influences them in their decision. I did my research at two schools in Helsingborg: "Magnus Stenbocksskolan" located in a so called "rich" area and "Gustav Adolfsskolan" located in a more

The first aim of this study was to on historical background survey women's alcohol habits and especially to investigate women aged 50-59 living in the Lund area. The second aim was to increase the understanding of how women's sex role has a restrictive influence on their alcohol habits. To investigate women's alcohol habits I made two quantitative studies. From secondary data I found t