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 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

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

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

The aim of this study is to decribe social care in homes for elderly mentally frail people and by means of social-philosophical theories identify and analyse these in relation to practical working in social care. The quality study has been possible by the use of interviews with four care-workers and by participant observation. My opinion is that - regarding quality aspects - there isn´t enough tim

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In the past decades there has been a progress in the legislation which regulates the rights of battered women. The social services are the authority which has the primary responsibility for battered women. This responsibility is regulated in the law since 1998. Evaluations have shown that the support for battered women needs to be improved since a majority of the rural districts don’t have any eme

The purpose with our essay was to examine and understand the import of treatment for drug abuse with Christian elements. Our study was based on a qualitative method and former written material about the subject. Ten persons were interviewed; persons in and after treatment, employed staff and social workers. The questions for our study was; what kind of background and current situation does the per

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

Bakgrund: Individuellt kompetenssparande (IKS) är ett förslag från regeringen som enligt planerna ska införas sommaren 2003, men vilket i skrivande stund ser ut att flyttas fram. IKS syftar till att ge den enskilde individen ökade möjligheter att ansvara för sin egen kompetensutveckling. Individen kan genom ett delvis subventionerat sparande regelbundet vika en del av sin lön till ett eget kompete

The purpose of this study was to determine if and how a client is catalogued and described in a casebook. The questions at issue were what controlled the description of the child-client, what sort of picture that emerged and if you possibly could demonstrate a common picture of the client within the staff. The study was exploratory. By using Grounded Theory as a method to revise the empiricism, th

The experiment in this study was conducted to see whether counter stereotypic mental imagery effects individuals stereotyping, concerning their partners. The Sex-Role Inventory, constructed by Sandra Bem, was used. All together, 120 students at Lund University and Campus Helsingborg participated. The students answered the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) measuring themselves. 30 male participants wer

Studied the impact of accountability and mental load on judgments of morally wrong, disgusting, harmful events. 85 participants (32 male, 53 female) were randomly assigned into four groups in a 2 (accountability: y/n) x 2 (load: y/n) design. Participants read stories with vivid but morally irrelevant disgusting features and judged how morally wrong the actions were. It was predicted that participa

Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka några fäders upplevelser av anknytningen till sina barn, samt vad som kan tänkas påverka denna. Studien omfattar tio intervjuer med fäder till för tidigt födda barn samt fäder till fullgångna barn. Resultaten visar på intressanta tendenser. Fäder till nyfödda barn där amningen av någon anledning uteblir helt eller under en period, alternativt där stora

The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate how individual motivation to work is influenced by a given salary. This was done using a phenomenological approach, in which the participants were to freely reflect upon a statement formulated by the authors. The reflections of the participants were then analysed using the software Minerva, an application of Meaning Constitution Analysis (MCA) de

Thirty right-handed participants were presented with emotional pictures either to the left or to the right visual field. The pictures were shown for a duration of 150 ms to make sure that they were exclusively presented to one hemisphere only. Eye movements were recorded with electroocularogram for each participant throughout the test. A total of 30 pictures were chosen on the basis of their valen

Weight and body image seem to be predominant issues in the adolescent years, especially for girls, and obsessions with these may sometimes manifest in extreme ways as eating disorders. One symptom in these disorders is that the size of the body is grossly overestimated. This study hypothesizes that this may be linked to a neuropsychological component in the development of the individual Body Schem

Attributions help us to explain events in our social world, that otherwise would seem disorganized and confusing. Once we make attributions, the flow of impressions become understandable and make our lives more predictable and meaningful. The purpose of this study was to find out if there were any relations between attribution style and personality and attribution style in relation to sex. With th

The aim of this study was to conduct a construct validation of a personality test based on the Five-Factor Model, by investigating the relationship between the test scales and vocational interests. Fifty-three subjects (38 women and 15 men) participated in the study by filling in a personality test consisting of 300 items and an interest test consisting of 94 items. The results showed several sign

Empirisk undersökning baserad på sju intervjuer med anställda på en avdelning inom en organisation, i den här studien kallad "Färg & Kemi". Att analysera de anställdas upplevelser av medarbetarsamtalets betydelse för deras möjligheter till kompetensutveckling. Vi uppfattar att avsikten med medarbetarsamtalet är att motivera de anställda, stärka relationen mellan chef och medarbetare