The aim of this study in the perspective of selfdetermination was to illustrate the living conditions of persons with mental disabilities, helprecievers, living in group homes. Besides that to illustrate staff members, helpers, attitudes towards helprecievers and their living conditions. The aim was also to recieve furter information of circumstances by reading. Guiding principals were: What attit

The purpose of this essay is to examine the social services voluntary contribution to youth abusers, how it looks like and how it is experienced by the youth and their social workers. Is it a possible solution for young abusers? The study is qualitative and based on interviews with four youths and their nine social workers. My original plan was to study how the voluntary contribution is perceived.

The purpose was that from previous research and the children's own stories illustrate how stepchildren experienced their lives in stepfamily, also examine if the children had mutual experiences and common patterns. Questions: What was it like for a child to live in a stepfamily? Could one see a pattern in a stepchild's describing life in a stepfamily? How the children relateted to all pare

The purpose for this composition was to examine what children do in their leisure time, children’s views on their leisure time related to the concepts of stress and recreation, and how children define the concept of stress. Our main questions were; What do children 11 years of age do in their leisure time? Do children think that their leisure time offers enough time for rest and recreation? Do chi

The main objective with this paper was to explore if you could find traces of any of the three models of citizenship chosen; T.H. Marshalls liberal model, the liberal kommunitarian model and the republican model in the Swedish law for social cervices called Socialtjänstlagen (2001:435) and, if so, if any of these three could be said to be the dominant one in comparison to the two others. The resea

This is a study on the young client's encounter 1 with the welfare system which main goal is the transition to work or study. The focus is on the clients experiences of this encounters and if they consider social allowance as a mean of lasting support. The method of data collection has been interviewing five people, two females and three males, all about the age of 20. All five had for some ti

The concern of this paper was telling a story of a woman and her addiction problem. The aim of the paper was to describe her developing addiction and to create an understanding for her predicament. This was based on her own description of her life. To achieve this goal we made use of the following questions: Ø What period in her life was significant in the development of her drug abuse? Ø What tem

The purpose of this paper was to examine and analyse which possibilities and limits that exist when putting children in to foster homes. Through interviews with ten social workers, our aim was to answer the following questions: - Which factors will increase the possibility of breakdowns? - Which factors will reduce the possibility of breakdowns? - How does the social service work to prevent break

The purpose of this essay was to examine how girls in the years of 17- 18 experience the differences between being a teenager or a young adult. In my attempts to find out what the girls believed themselves to be I have used the following questions; · How did the girls experience themselves, as teenager or as young adult? · What did the girls considered about the differences being a teenager or bei

The aim of this essay was to find out what children consider to be necessary consumption at three senior level schools in the municipality of Lund. I had three questions to help me to reach my aim: · What consider pupils in senior level to be necessary consumption? · Are there any differences between the answers from the girls and the boys? · Are there any differences between the pupils depending

This thesis describes the development of childcare facilities in The Netherlands. The Netherlands have a comparatively special position in regards to the participation of women on the labourmarket and has also a poorly developed childcare, which is traditionally not initiated or supported by the Dutch government. The Netherlands has through different factors always had a high number of housewives

The purpose of this essay was to focus on the prospects and limitations for the drug-abusers to make a change to a new way of life. Questions: What can literature tell us about the risks involved with the client leaving the treatmentfacility? How can social service departments offer support and what kind of support does the client request? What is important for him/her to feel participant in socie

The purpose with our essay was to illustrate child-care workers, headmasters for the child-care and social-workers opinion and knowledge about the obligation to report according to the 71 § SoL, and investigate if there are any restraining factors like lack of knowledge or lack of support and to see how the cooperation works and how it understands by the different parts. The main questions have be

Our purpose with this essay was to examine and compare the help, that children with Asperger’s syndrome and their parents receive and have received from the Swedish welfarestate. The question we asked were: · From the parents point of view, what do they and their children need help with? · Which help have they received? We decided to divide our study into two time-periods, the time before and the

The purpose of this assignment was to illustrate how some young boys, who attend upper secondary school on the specific ice hockey and dancing branches, look upon manliness, how they consider themselves and the environment in which they are active. Key questions were how they consider themselves, how they consider their immediate environment, what the sport gives them, and how they view upon their

This study has been done among swedish backpackers (age 20- 35) on the island Koh-pah-gan in Thailand. The aim of the study is to find out why swedish backpackers are using illegal drugs when they are out travelling, and also to find out if they are using illegal drugs back home in Sweden. The study shows that factors like curiosity, grouppressure, gruppaffinity, availability and experience capita

The purpose of this paper was to obtain knowledge of crime preventional work and how it can be practiced. Through this obtained knowledge and with the aid of theorethical modells and a social-political perspective establish how crime preventional work should be practiced in Sweden today and lead to provable results. The following questions were of central importance for the paper. On what theoreth

The purpose of this essay was to research the citizenship of a minority in relation to that of the majority and what importance it has for Greenlanders in Denmark. The questions asked were the following; What elements underlie the Danish people's image of the Greenlanders and the Greenlanders' image of themselves? What is the importance of official institutions recognising cultural minorit

Bullying should not be considered as an isolated phenomenon. Bullying does not only affect individual victims but even touches upon the basic values and rights within society. Bullying does not only occur during school hours and several researchers imply that relationships between the school and home are of significance. The aim of this essay is, by means of surveys, to illustrate the attitude of