The aim of this study was to investigate how social workers who provide financial assistance perceive power in relation to their clients and to see how power affects the initial encounter. Power is a hard concept to define, especially when it is in a context where law, regulations, and professional discretion is involved. As representatives of an organisation they have to manage both the organisat

The purpose of this qualitative research was to investigate medical social workers experiences and thoughts on collaboration with other health care professionals and what obstacles and opportunities they see with the interprofessional collaboration. The empirical research is based on six interviews with curators in somatic healthcare. The emperical data have been collected from semi-structed int

Social workers’ judgements of sexual abuse among siblings The aim of this study was to investigate which factors relating to 1) the child and family and to 2) the respondent have an impact on social workers’ professional judgments about sexual sibling incest. The study was carried out in the form of an experimental vignette survey (a factorial survey), in which the respondents made judgements abo

The labour market is dynamic and constantly changing due to digitalization and new technology. In recent years, the growth and global outspread of the collaborative and gig economy has been evident and companies like Uber and Taskrunner have quickly become well known household names. This essay aims to discuss and analyse the gig economy - its tri-party structure and atypical way of organizing lab

In order to help the rescue service to do an efficient and secure operation in complex buildings, operation plans are used. To investigate the need of an operation plan adapted for natural environment and collect information to be used at the establishment of one, a literature review and a semi-structured interview study was conducted. The interview study consisted of interviews with national park

The study aimed to research some social workers in the department of children and families services' view of the case “Lilla hjärtat” and the dilemmas of the case. This case, a 4-year old girl who died in the care of her parents, is well known in Sweden through the media, and the case has led to a public inquiry. The study was a case study based on seven semi-structured qualitative interviews

Samsjuklighet av missbruk och psykisk ohälsa är ett komplext problem som enligt social forskning ofta är förankrade med varandra. Det är en aktuell problematik som föreligger i flera länder. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka hur de yrkesverksamma inom socialtjänsten och hälso- och sjukvården upplever att samverkan och samsjuklighet tar sig uttryck mellan de båda instanserna. Metoden Comorbidity of addiction and mental illness is a complex problem that according to social research often is linked to each other. This is a current problem that exists in several countries. The purpose of this study has been to investigate how the professionals in the social services and health care experience that collaboration and comorbidity are expressed between the two instances. The chosen m

The purpose of the study was to gain an increased knowledge and understanding of women's pathways into prostitution and the experiences and feelings that coexist with being in this life situation. To find relevant empirical data for what we intended to investigate, we used our questions as guidance when we searched for autobiographical works depicting the life stories of prostituted women. We

Den här uppsatsen undersöker skillnaden hur långtgående arbetsgivarens rehabiliteringsansvar är vid olika beroendesjukdomar. I huvudsak berörs alkohol- och narkotikaberoende av sjukdomskaraktär och ett fokus ligger på när rehabiliteringsansvaret avslutas. En rättsdogmatisk ansats har använts för att undersöka skillnader och likheter mellan rehabiliteringsansvaret för både narkotika- och alkoholber

Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur barn representeras och porträtteras i den svenska kvällstidningen Aftonbladet. Syftet är att undersöka hur barn framställs i artiklar om barn. Studien ämnar också att granska hur ofta barn får uttala sig i tidningen, om det skiljer sig över tid och vad de får uttala sig om. Granskningen baseras på en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av 97 artiklar från Aftonbladets taggThis essay conducts a study on how children are represented and portrayed in the Swedish evening newspaper Aftonbladet. The purpose of the study is to investigate how children are portrayed in articles about children. Further, the study intends to find out how often children are allowed to speak in the newspaper, if it differs over time and what topic they are invited to talk about. The study is b

Lagen (1993:387) om stöd och service (LSS) till vissa funktionshindrade säkerställer att människor med funktionsnedsättning får anpassat stöd för att kunna leva ett självständigt liv och känna sig delaktig i samhället. Trots detta är diskriminering av ens funktionsnedsättning vanligt och beror på att människor handlar utifrån fördomar där okunskap är den främsta anledningen. I uppdraget av Lunds k

Ledarskapets inverkan på medarbetarna och deras motivation till lärande och utveckling är avgörande både för individens och organisationens framgång. Motiverade medarbetare presterar ofta bättre, vilket i förlängningen gynnar företagets lönsamhet. Organisationens viktigaste resurs är medarbetarna och det är chefernas ansvar att se till att de presterar. Syftet med uppsatsen utifrån dessa ståndpunk

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Triple-negative breast cancer affects 10-20% of breast cancer patients and is associated with an especially bad prognosis. Today, tissue slides are assessed manually by a clinician to set a prognosis. However, the prediction of outcomes could possibly be improved using machine learning. This work investigates various machine learning techniques for

På den moderna arbetsmarknaden är arbetsgivaren behov av flexibilitet inom verksamheten ett återkommande inslag. Denna efterfrågan kan uppnås genom alltmer flexibla, ofta tidsbegränsade, anställningsformer än den traditionella tillsvidareanställningen som, i Sverige, är behäftat med starkt anställningsskydd. Denna uppsats syftar till att utreda vilka problem och svårigheter för arbetstagare som kaThe modern labour market is strongly correlated with the employer’s increasing demand for flexibility. This demand can be achieved by flexible, oftentimes fixed- term, employment types rather than the traditional permanent employment that, in Sweden, is attached with strong employment protection. This essay is aimed at investigating what problems and difficulties for employees that can occur in li

Syftet med studien var att undersöka behandlingsassistenternas upplevelse av hur personalomsättning påverkar vårdkvaliteten vid de särskilda ungdomshem som drivs av Statens institutionsstyrelse (SiS). Sex behandlingsassistenter intervjuades och en tematisk analys användes. Slutsatserna från studien är att det som utgör störst risk med personalomsättning är de introduktioner som kommer med den, därThe aim of this study was to investigate the treatment assistants' views of how the quality of compulsory care is affected by staff turnover at the special youth homes run by The National Board of Institutional Care (Statens institutionsstyrelse) in Sweden. The study has a certain focus on examining what the profession's desirable skills look like and whether it is matched by what the empl

The adoptive family in policy documents – changing ideals over time The purpose of this study was to examine the construction of the adoptive family. More specific, the aim was to explore, how the adoptive family are constructed in policy documents and what consequences are described for the adoptive family as a special family type. The theoretical framwork for this study was based on a social co