This essay is written about how parents experiences the meaning of the child’s diagnosis within the autismspectra. We wanted to recreate a picture of feelings and reflections that the parents have with the thought of the child’s diagnosis. It is the parentperspective as the essay treats in questions as: how is autism discovered? Who gives the answer about the diagnosis and how does it feel to get

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The purpose of this study has been to describe and analyse how gender is represented and passed on in 12 Swedish child- and youth magazines. We put focus on three different arias; how gender roles were passed on, which kind of problems girls and boys were ascribed and how sexuality was represented. We chose to do a qualitative study of the magazines using 11 theme questions. Our study showed that

Anxiety is a common symptom in the life of young girls life. The aim of this study was to search for positive coping factors in young girl with anxiety and also find out if these factors were related to these of a standardized questionaire (KASAM). Five girls, 18-24 years old who had had a consultation at the Young Womens policlinic the last year were interviewed. Their answeres were related to th

The purpose of this essay was to investigate what function death metal music has on young people's identity development. We interviewed five girls and five boys between the ages of 14 and 19 over the Internet. The interviewees are all participants of the death metal subculture. The results of the interviews were correlated to relevant youth research concerning identity development, gender and

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, is a disease which 2-3 % of the Swedish population suffers from. The purpose of this essay was to examine how the disease affects the children who grow up in families where somebody has got OCD. Our first question was: In which way did relative’s disease affect the child? The second question was: How did the relative’s disease affect the child’s relations to the

The purpose of this paper has been to observe and compare similarities and differences in approaches to work and providing for themselves amongst two groups of young people between the ages of 19-24, the so called generation Y, one including people who were currently out of work and therefor involved in jobseeking activities and another group who were undergraduate students of social work. We want

The purpose of this study was to investigate what facts that matters in relation to where drug abusers get their care and treatment, after a decision of voluntary treatment has been taken, by the social welfare. Another question I wanted to answer, was if there was any deviation between social secretaries with or without the authority to make those decisions in their opinion of what underlying mat

The purpose of this essay was to illustrate the identity and the double belonging among second generation immigrants. We also wanted to illustrate the second generation immigrants view of identity, language and society. The questions asked were: How do the second generation immigrants, in our study, experience theirs identities in the two different cultures they are living in? Have the society and

My aim with this study was to make a research to find out if it is possible to force someone to motivation. I also wish to understand the clients point of view regarding the motivation within the forced rehabilitation and if this opinion changed due to the time they spent i rahabilitation. The study is based on six qualitative intervius, relevant literature and previous science. The problem was: -

Our aim with this research was to investigate the reasons behind child labour in India and what you could do to prevent it. Interrogative sentences to answer the aim were: What does the child labour situation look like in India? Why does child labour exist in India? Is there any legislation in India about child labour, and if so, how does it actually work? How do they work in Trichy to prevent chi

With this paper we wanted to examine how the Swedish secondary school works toward integration of their immigrant students in purpose to comprehend the mechanisms of the schools socialization components. We based our study on interviews and visited two schools in Malmoe for our purpose. We found that the composition of students as well as the school’s status is of great importance for the way the

The aim of this study was to get a picture of what it's like to work as a university teacher. By emphazising some factors in the psychosocial work environment I tried to reach a deeper understanding of which of these factors that could lead to a feeling of stress for a teacher at a university. The factors emphazised was demand and control, according to the stress researchers Karasek and Theore

The purpose of this essay was to better be able to understand the concepts of neurasthenia and burnout, and also what connections that can be made between these concepts and changes in society. The questions I used was: How can we understand the concept neurasthenia ? How can we understand the concept burnout ? How can these concepts be connected to recent development in modern society ? The metho

The purpose of our thesis was to examine how the drug-education at the senior level of compulsory school was constructed, seen from its purpose and apprehension of its influence. This considering the existing conditions for the school personnel and the pupils to reach each other in the educational situation. We wanted to describe this from both groups point of view. Essential questions were: · Wha

The purpose of this essay was to describe and analyse how patients at a swedish methadoneprogramme have changed their lives since they enrolled the programme, and which significance their social networks have in their lives and in the changingprocess. The following central issues are discussed in the essay: 1. How do the interviewpersons describe their lives before they enrolled the methadoneprogr

Incan culture keeps indefatigably in attracting divergent scientific disciplins for research studies in it’s old cultural mysteries. One of it’s most challenging mysteries is the old Incan fortress Machu Picchu, situatated in the” old Vilcabamba Valley” of the grandiose Andes in Peru. Is it possible to get to know something of it’s mystery from a scientifically point of veiw ? Can a general view o

The purpose with our essay is to shed light on homeless womens vital conditions from two perspectives, the homeless women and different professionals whom in there profession deal with homeless women and their problems. To obtain this we used the following questions: Ø Under which vital conditions do the homeless women live and which survival strate-gies do they have? Ø What kind of response do th

Detta är en utvärdering av en metod som syftar till att utveckla och effektivisera samverkan mellan myndigheter i en kommun; Gemensamma Individuella Handlingsplaner, GIH. En grupp handläggare från fyra myndigheter har arbetat fram metoden inom ett delprojekt ingående i ett större lokalt samverkansprojekt, FRISAM. Projektet riktar sig till personer med många myndighetskontakter, försörjningsstöd oc