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The aim of this paper was to increase our knowledge regarding the differences in abilities taught during education of social services´ secretaries and the abilities work at the social service demands. I have done this by investigating 70 job ads from the employment service and three educational plans from three different universities in Sweden. Through qualitative text analysis I have analyzed thr

The aim of the studie was to explore whether social workers in the social assistans handling income support, were experiencing that their work was influenced by New Public Management. The data was collected through four interviews with social workers and assesed through organizational theory. The perspectives used among organizational theory was mainly the human reasource, structural and political

Syftet med uppsatsen är att jämföra vad som skiljer bolagsrevisionen från den kommunala. Vilka skillnader finns det mellan respektive regelverk, revisorernas uppgifter osv.?

Presence outside of time- a phenomenological investigation of the interactive artwork Future Self by rAndom International. The aim of this essay to investigate the experience of the meeting between the spectator (myself) and Future Self, an interactive artwork by artists’ group rAndom International, shown at their exhibition Studies in Motion at Lunds konsthall in 2014. Future Self is made of a ha

The purpose of this study was to examine how external job-coaches consider themselves to perform their entrusted tasks from both the Employment Service's requirements and the jobseekers' needs and expectations. The empirical material consisted of seven semi-structured interviews with job-coaches from different private companies in southern Sweden. Based on the interviews we were able to fi

Threats, violence, bites and punches but not to be really beaten - A study of how nursing staff at a dementia ward define, manage and explain the residents’ action The aim of this study was to examine how nursing staff at a ward for elderly residents with dementia defined and related to situations and acts that could be defined as violent. The study was performed with a qualitative method based o

The aim for this study was to investigate how the service-user identity is constructed and how it interacts with neoliberalism. Service-user emphasizes a person that is independent and autonomy’s in the welfare system. The word started to be used around 1980s and some say it was a result of neoliberalism that spread across the world at the same time. Four interviews have been done with profession

Author: Ditte Edström Title: ADHD a social construction - A discourse analysis on how ADHD is described and communicated in professional school journals [translated title] Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Five percent of all students in Swedish schools have got an ADHD diagnosis (The National Board of Health and Welfare 2014), which is about two children in each class. In ten years, the diagnosed cas

Previous research suggests that the concept of equality has changed in the discourse of the Swedish Social Democrats since they lost power to the right wing parties in the 2006 elections. The purpose of this study was to analyze the concept of equality in the rhetorics of the Swedish Social Democrats within the areas of education and work by implementing a content analysis at the national and loca

The aim of this study was to examine how home care workers are reasoning about and using their discretion in their work with elder people with alcohol problems. The two concepts responsibility and respect was used to understand the difficulty and dilemmas they encounter in their work with elderly with alcohol problems. The study was based on semi-structured interviews, combined with two vignettes,

Through violence, war, and persecution millions of people are forced to cross borders to escape death. Yet, worldwide discriminatory state practices daily deny millions of forced migrants access to safe territory. Among those crossing borders are persons without the right to carry travel documents as members of a state. Most often the group of people is known as stateless refugees. Statelessness,

I den här uppsatsen undersöks den vision om Malmö som presenteras i stadens förslag till ny översiktsplan – vad det är som karaktäriserar staden i det förflutna och i nutid och hur framtiden förväntas se ut. Mitt arbete syftar till att ta reda på vilka det är som våra städer planeras för. Min teoretiska utgångspunkt ligger i berättelsen som som ett sätt att befästa en hegemonisk bild av verklighetThis essay examines the vision of Malmö represented in the city's proposal for a new comprehensive plan – what characterizes the city in the past and in the present and what the future is expected to be like. My work sets out to find out who it is our cities are planned for. My theoretical concepts lie in storytelling as a way to consolidate a hegemonic view of reality and also in that the ent

Bakgrund: Omkring 3 % av Sveriges befolkning vårdar dagligen en anhörig. Vardagen styrs av den anhöriges behov vilket gör att anhörigvårdarna får mindre tid för sig själva. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att undersöka anhörigvårdares värde och upplevelse av aktiviteter i vardagen . Undersökningsgruppen bestod av sju stycken anhörigvårdare i västra Sverige. Metoden: Både en kvalitativ och en kvantitativ

Bakgrund: Tumbasartros är vanligt förekommande och kan bidra till svåra aktivitetsbegränsningar. För att påvisa svårigheterna behövs arbetsterapeutiska bedömningsinstrument som bl a undersöker handens finmotoriska användning. Syftet med studien var att undersöka samband mellan handens finmotoriska greppsvårigheter med Mini-Sollermantestet och aktivitetsbegränsningar hos personer med tumbasartros.

Bakgrund: Tumbasartros (articulatio carpometacarpalis pollicis) är en inflammatorisk sjukdom och innebär förslitning i ledbrosket. Sjukdomen orsakar smärta, svaghet, stelhet, kraftnedsättning och nedsättning i vardagliga aktiviteter. För att behandla dessa symtom påbörjas först medicinering och sedan andra terapeutiska åtgärder. När dessa behandlingar inte ger effekt på sjukdomen är operation ett

Äldre människor är en stor grupp som under lång tid har ökat och fortsatt ökning förväntas även ske framöver. Forskning visar på ensamhet och tristess på särskilda boenden. Det finns en önskan, hos de äldre, om en ökad social aktivitet och samvaro. Djur i vården har använts under lång tid och forskning har visat på goda effekter. Den kunskapslucka som finns är äldres upplevelser kring vårdhund. Dä

I samband med Ädelreformen öppnades möjligheter att införa Medicinskt ansvarig för rehabilitering (MAR) i den kommunala hälso- och sjukvården. Kunskapen om hur MAR påverkade arbetsterapeuter i deras arbete var outforskad. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur arbetsterapeuter upplevde att MAR påverkade deras arbete och yrkesroll. Studien hade en kvalitativ design. Semistrukturerade intervj

This study investigates the movie Känn ingen sorg (2013) from an intermedial perspective. By applying the theories of Lars Elleström and Irina O. Rajewsky the aim is to investigate how the movie can be understood as a transformation of lyrics and music by the musician and composer Håkan Hellström. My study leads to a conclusion about how both the theory of Elleström and of Rajewsky can be helpful

Vilka faktorer är det som påverkar musiklärares upplevelse av deras möjligheter att undervisa i enlighet med kursplanens krav? Vad behövs för att möjliggöra musikundervisning av hög kvalitet? Vilka strategier använder musiklärare för att undervisa i skolmiljöer där utrustning och andra förutsättningar är undermåliga? Det är dessa frågor som driver denna studie framåt. En vanlig föreställning är atWhich are the factors that affect the music teachers’ perception of their ability to teach in accordance with the syllabus requirements? What is needed to enable music education of high quality? What strategies do music teachers to teach in school environments where equipment and other conditions are substandard? These questions drive this study forward. It is a common perception that classrooms f

This paper is based upon the observation that in the literature of the past century there are various girl characters who breaks the image of a girl as weak and fragile. The hypothesis of this investigation is that there exist a stereotype of girl character who is rebellious in different types of works published in the twentieth century that have political connotative meaning. The books that are u