This is a 10 Swedish credits essay at the sixth term of the programme for social studies at the University of Lund. The purpose of the composition was to examine how the "individual programme" is established and how it serves. The framing of the questions has been; how the programme is established; how to get admitted as a pupil; how the schools serve to reach their purposes; how the pup

The purpose of this essay was to examine how the identity changes during time in prison. I also wanted to look at the processes that makes this change possible. I wanted to examine in what extension those processes are deliberate strategies, or if they are a natural product of life in prison. The methods in this study are interviews with prisoners and personal in two different prisons, and the sci

The purpose of our essay was to examine what treatment women have had, who in their teenage years had eating disorders, how they have experienced this treatment and how they live today. Our central questions were; what was their experience of the treatment, how are their lives today, has the eating disorder and the treatment affected how the women live today and what kind of treatments are there?

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My essay is a qualitative study and the purpose was to find out how social work conducts to a great number of varieties of ethnic. The questions asked were: - How do the social service work in conduct with ethnicity? - How does it show in the meeting between youth immigrants and social workers? I interviewed six professional which all work in the social services. Through my interviews I came to th

The purpose of this essay was to illuminate how the politics regarding alcohol is practised at restaurants in Lund. The main questions asked were: · In which way do the restaurants take responsibility regarding the politics of alcohol? · In which way do the restaurants prevent abuse of alcohol? To answer the questions, six interviews with waiting staff at six restaurants in Lund were made. The res

The purpose with this essay was to examine what five second generation Macedonian parents thought about their integration in the Swedish community and how they applied this into the upbringing of their children. This essay included five qualitative interviews with five Macedonian parents born in Sweden and they were between 25 and 35 years old. Central questions were: witch cultural identity do th

Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa begreppet coping samt redogöra för olika copingstrategier. Vidare att jämföra de empiriska resultaten av patienternas copingstrategier i ett projekt som nyligen avslutats med teoribildningen omkring copingstrategier för att se om någon överensstämmelse finns. Denna uppsats har sin teoretiska anknytning i det salutogena perspektivet. Uppsatsen börjar därför me

The purpose with this paper is to examine whether the cultural characteristics and difficulties in speaking Swedish matters when it comes to choosing between having a geriatric care in the city of Landskrona or not. Does the local authorities succeed in reaching out to the elderly immigrants with information? How important is a common relationship to create security in old age? What reasons are th

The purpose was to investigate "adult foster childrens" view on their childhood and how it may have been influencing their adulthood. The importance of relationships were mostly in focus in the essay. The method was qualitative deepinterviews with three adult foster children between 30-42 years of age. Important themequestions was about: origin family, the time in foster home, relations

The aim of this study in the perspective of selfdetermination was to illustrate the living conditions of persons with mental disabilities, helprecievers, living in group homes. Besides that to illustrate staff members, helpers, attitudes towards helprecievers and their living conditions. The aim was also to recieve furter information of circumstances by reading. Guiding principals were: What attit

The purpose of this essay is to examine the social services voluntary contribution to youth abusers, how it looks like and how it is experienced by the youth and their social workers. Is it a possible solution for young abusers? The study is qualitative and based on interviews with four youths and their nine social workers. My original plan was to study how the voluntary contribution is perceived.

The purpose was that from previous research and the children's own stories illustrate how stepchildren experienced their lives in stepfamily, also examine if the children had mutual experiences and common patterns. Questions: What was it like for a child to live in a stepfamily? Could one see a pattern in a stepchild's describing life in a stepfamily? How the children relateted to all pare

The purpose for this composition was to examine what children do in their leisure time, children’s views on their leisure time related to the concepts of stress and recreation, and how children define the concept of stress. Our main questions were; What do children 11 years of age do in their leisure time? Do children think that their leisure time offers enough time for rest and recreation? Do chi

The main objective with this paper was to explore if you could find traces of any of the three models of citizenship chosen; T.H. Marshalls liberal model, the liberal kommunitarian model and the republican model in the Swedish law for social cervices called Socialtjänstlagen (2001:435) and, if so, if any of these three could be said to be the dominant one in comparison to the two others. The resea

This is a study on the young client's encounter 1 with the welfare system which main goal is the transition to work or study. The focus is on the clients experiences of this encounters and if they consider social allowance as a mean of lasting support. The method of data collection has been interviewing five people, two females and three males, all about the age of 20. All five had for some ti

The concern of this paper was telling a story of a woman and her addiction problem. The aim of the paper was to describe her developing addiction and to create an understanding for her predicament. This was based on her own description of her life. To achieve this goal we made use of the following questions: Ø What period in her life was significant in the development of her drug abuse? Ø What tem

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