We wanted to examine children's views on families and traditions surrounding family formation. Our main questions were; What are children's views on the concept "family" and how does this compare to the different definitions of family? How traditional or modern are children in comparison with historical and present views? and What are the effects of their own experiences, and val

The purpose of this essay was to study the social planning, in terms of age care, of the elderly immigrants in Sweden. I wanted to examine if elderly immigrants have special needs and if so, how they are met. I also wanted to find out in what way elderly immigrants are taken into consideration in the planning process of age care and how one can relate that to the planning of age care in general. M

The overriding aim of the prison and probation service is to provide sentenced offenders proper care and personal change opportunities so as to prevent relapse into criminal activity. The municipalities, county councils and labour market agencies are responsible for the social welfare services as well as for housing and employment assistance and this is where the real possibility to influence the

During many of the lectures this spring we have heard how important and essential a social secretary can be for the youngsters they come in contact with. We therefore thought that it would be interesting to investigate how this works in reality. The purpose of the thesis was to investigate young girls own experiences of contact and their relationship with their social secretary whilst they were in

The purpose of this study was to examine the cause of the major increase of the number of pupils in the special school in the Swedish school system during the 1990's in Sweden. The main questions were: What were the criteria for rights to undergo education within the special school and had they changed? What structural changes could had contributed to the increase of the number of pupils in th

This is a qualitative study of how personal assistants (working with disabled) experience their "occupational role" that is created by and formulated during their counselling (or supervision). The empirical base consisted of interviews. In my analysis, I used Goffman’s "dramaturgical approach", an approach that views social life as performances similar to those performed at a t

The purpose of this Thesis was to let a group of six Maori single mothers, depending on Social Welfare, tell the story about their lives, their dreams and thoughts about the future. The queries at issue dealt with topics such as the interview persons (IPs) economy, living standard and family constellations. Other questions dealt with reasons for getting and staying on Social Welfare, interactions

The purpose of this studie was to explore how the conception of the family is constructed, by doing a discourse analysis of texts from three differente perspective which are dealing with the family concept, and to difinite the areas where the discourses don´t agree. The three perspective was: Feminism, psykoanalysis and late modern sociology. My method was discourse analys. A discourse can be disc

The aim of this essay is to describe and analyse the experiences of adults growing up with alcohol abusing parents and how their adult life have been affected by this fact. The questions dealt with were as follow: - How does parent alcohol abuse affect the every day life of children and young people? - What survival strategies do children of alcohol abusing parents develop? - In what way does the

Purpose : The purpose of this paper is to illustrate children's experience of participation and consent in decisions making in social service. Questions: Did the children experienced that they where participated in the investigation, the decision and the measure that followed? Were the children allowed to take part in the decision about which measure the result of the investigation should be?

The aim of this study was to investigate the alcohol-culture within the restaurantbusiness. Our main questions were: What is the personnel in the restaurantbusiness´ attitude towards: · Alcohol and its consumption? · The function of alcohol in the society? · The function of alcohol among the staff? · Drinkinghabits among the staff? · Being at risk of alcoholabuse? · Alcoholpolitics? To answer thes

The purpose of the essay was to investigate how former foster children view their childhood and the consequence it may have for the adult person. Focus was on the importance of risk- and protective mechanisms as well as relationships. The method was qualitative personal interviews with seven former foster children. Important questions were: the time in the foster home, family of origin, important

Traumatic experiences, from war and persecution, lead to different natural crisis reactions. The duration and composition of these reactions determine whether the diagnosis posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be made or not. We were interested in how foreign children with a traumatic past are getting on and taken care of in a multinational school in Sweden (age six-16). Our main questions wer

The aim of this master's thesis was to study how children experience counselling groups at school. My questions were: HASH(0x12677f0) The theoretical approach was group psychology, gender theory and dynamic developmental psychology. I used qualitative interviews to gather the empirical data. The main results of the study are the following: The children that have been interviewed all experien

The objective of this essay was to shed light on the problems concerning social policy and employment issues involved in the Czech Republic's accession process into the European Union. Central questions asked was; What does the social policy of the EU, the same policy the Czech Republic is adjusting to, look like? What kind of problems is the Czech Republic experiencing with the adjustment? Ar

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The aim with this essay has been to illuminate different health perspectives, social work and the concept of salutogenesis. My central questions have been: What is the meaning of the concept of health? In what way is the concept of salutogenesis related to different concept of health? How can the concept of salutogenesis be a framework theory for social work? My method has been a qualitative theor

The phenomenon murder, in the name of honor, you can describe in several different ways. The purpose with our work was trying to describe honor related crimes from the investigators perspective. From the valid discourses we were looking for answers about how a social worker understand girls crying for help and what aspects are determine in the judge for a propitiate measure. During our work with t

The purpose of this project was to investigate what is causing early disturbances in the mother- and infant relationship and what sorts of treatments are available. Our main questions where: -What does the development within infant research say about when it comes to the importance of early relationships? -What is causing the disturbances in the mother- and infant relationship seen from an attachm

Kagera region is the most severely AIDS affected region in Tanzania. With its more than 150.000 AIDS orphans, which is 1/3 of the children of the region, the disease lays a heavy burden on society and on peoples' lives. It has a crucial demographical and economical impact on the society. It kills the productive part of the population and leaves the orphans without financial and psychological s