The objective of this thesis was, on the basis of the Theory of Residualist Conversion, to examine if students in social work education were trained to maintain the structures in society by converting social problems into personal problems of the people they serve. I chose 'the multicultural society' as an example of an issue that is often perceived as a social problem. The research questi

The purpose of this essay was to contribute to an increased understanding about battered women. We also wanted to find patterns and explanations as to why the women acted as they did. The questions asked were: - Why didn't the women leave the men after the first abuse? - Why did the women accept the abuse? - What makes the women choose the same kind of men over and over again? "Love on wh

When we started this project our aim was to discuss and interpret older women's adjustment to their new lifes as retired. Did we interpret the retirement as a difficult transition for the women, or as if they felt satisfaction with their new situation? We interpreted the results of the interviews using gerentologic theories. The questions that led our work was how our respondents apprehended t

The purpose of this essay was to examine the importance language has to the feeling of being left out of the society. The intention was to compare thoughts and feelings between two different groups. One of the groups was people suffering from aphasia and the other was immigrants. In the first group, I interviewed a man suffering from aphasia and a relative to another man also suffering from aphasi

The purpose of this essay was to examine the counter play and mutual influence between a group of regular frequenters, the regular him/herself, and the pub; and also how the individual influenced this interplay and was influenced by it. Essential questions were: For what purpose does the regular frequenter visit the pub? What are the routines of the pub visit? How would the regular frequenter desc

The purpose of this essay was to compare the female and male feelings when they received and live with a premature child. The main issues of this essay were: - The new parents reactions on the notice of the interruption of the pregnancy and that the child have to be delivered premature. - The new parents experience of the delivery, admission at the maternity ward and the neonatology ward. - The ne

Home service is a part of the elderly care activities and lately it had get more attention in research. Home service is a kind of public elderly care, where old people who can´t cope with thier commonplace life or personal care, get help in their ownhomes. The aim with this essay was to try to understand how the assistant nurses workingdays were and to show how homeservice had developed in Sweden.

The objective of this thesis was to examine what recipients of aid from Swedish Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) think about the support and about their possibilities to be independent after the support has been withdrawn. The research questions were: What is the purpose of the aid, from the recipients' point of view? What is the recipients' view of their future as self-supporting and

Our purpose with the essay was to understand how a partner to an abuser of alcohol can be effected of her partner´s abuse. Our central questions were: - How can the partner´s effect, of her partner´s abuse of alcohol, find expression and how can the relationship that exists/arises between the partner and the abuser of alcohol be explained, from different perspectives and views? - How can the conce

The essay is a cross section study whose aim was to examine if the Children’s sense of coherence scale (CSOC) is useful instrument for children in ages between 7- 10. The CSOC scale was compared to two other: Latter of Life and I think I am, which are due to measure similar qualities. A correlation study was made between the instruments. We have also examined if the results agree with Antonovsky´s

The purpose of this essay was to investigate and compare experiences among youths and personnel at an HVB-home (a smaller institution) when it comes to how the youths’ thoughts about themselves and their future have changed during their stay there. We also wanted to investigate which factors that have contributed to the youths’ positive development and how their stay at the HVB-home has helped the

The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe the workingconditions for staff personel, mainly from an educational and knowledgebased point of view, at three youthcareinstitutions in southern Sweden. Social service interventions for children and young people are guided by the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act (LVU). The study was based on

The aim of this thesis has been to analyse what kind of explanations that is presented in earlier research to why drug addicts get to the end of their drugabuse. The questions that our work came out of has been: 1. What external factors mean something for a drugaddict to end his or her drugabuse? 2. What internal factors mean something for at drugaddict to end his or her drugabuse? 3. Of what impo

The purpose of our essay was to highlight the problems with eating disorders that exist in our society. It’s clear that our society have a fixation on how our body should look like. TV, newspapers and publicity show us the ideal pictures of the woman. To be attractive you should be extremely slim, beautiful and stay young. Does an eating disorder, like anorexia and bulimia nervosa, arise from this

The intention of this study was to inquiry how the social workers at the social service offices in Helsingborg perceive the homeless and their situation, and what kind of aid and support the homeless are getting so they can change their situation. We have also examined how the homeless describe their own situation and how they experience the treatment and the help they get from the social workers.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of child perspective, from the view of the social worker including its interpretation and its application in Social Welfare. Questions: What's the meaning of a child perspective from the angle of the social worker? How can this perspective be seen in the work of the social worker? How is the course of action of the social worker in h

The aim of this essay was to study the new voluntary organization PO-Skåne and personal agents work. PO-Skåne is an independent organization and which works for persons who are seriously mentally disabled. The personal agents work involves two roles: advocasy and case management. Some of the questions I study were: - The aim of the organization. - The structure and the work methods of the organiza

This thesis is written within the Master Program of the School of Social Work at the University of Lund, and comprehends ten educational points. My purpose was to study the encounter between the concept of empowerment and the Swedish Social Services. Using the strategy of case study, I examined a Welfare Office’s experiences of empowerment in order to find out how the Social Services interpret emp

The purpose of this essay was to describe and compare the Swedish and Danish societies' attitude towards narcotics in regard of social efforts against drug abuse. When it came to social efforts, we were in particular interested in comparing Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark. The questions we used was: - Under what circumstances did the present politics of narcotics develop in Denmark a

The purpose of this paper was to describe and analyse why some people abuse anabolic steroids and through that increase the understanding for this problem. · Why do some people choose to begin with anabolic steroids? · Where does the first contact with the drug take place? · How does the users affect by anabolic steroids? · Is it possible to be addicted to anabolic steroids? The paper was drawn fr