The aim of the study is to understand how social workers perceive causes and consequences of men who have been subjects of honor violence. Furthermore, the study aims to outline the inputs that the clients receive from the social services. The investigation was a series of semi structured interviews with social workers currently operating in the field of domestic violence. The output of the interv

Intimate partner violence is the most common type of violence against women, and is a problem for women of all ages, backgrounds, social classes, religions and preconditions. This study analyses the language and discourses used in a selection of Swedish educational material and guides for social workers regarding intimate partner violence against women in substance abuse or addiction. Through a cr

Bakgrund: Främre korsbandet är en viktig struktur för stabiliteten i knäleden och en främre korsbandsskada är en av de vanligaste ligamentskadorna inom idrottsvärlden. Skadan leder i de flesta fall till permanent funktionsnedsättning oavsett behandlingsform. Det är främst unga kvinnor som drabbas och kvinnor löper större risk än män som utsätts för samma belastning. I takt med kvinnors ökade idrot

En undersökning av filmseriens tematik i förhållande till pågående samhällsdebatter kring behandlingen av djur.

Elderly alcohol problems- whose responsibility? – A qualitative study of home care workers and elderly with alcohol problems The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate what home care staff think promotes beneficial care for elderly, who is living in their ordinary home and has a problem with alcohol. This study explore which difficulties the staff endure during their work with this

The meaning of sentences is a notoriously tricky beast to nail down. In spite of the ease at which we manage to understand new and unfamiliar expressions every day most of us would be at a loss if asked what that understanding consists in. In contemporary philosophy linguistic meaning is often conceived of as a relation of referring or representing things in either some possible world or the actua

Attachment avoidance is associated with deactivation of the attachment system in times of distress, and disengaging from the distressing information as an emotion regulation strategy to restore felt security. The current study investigated how experimentally induced attachment security priming would affect avoidant strategies on attentional level. In a randomized within- between-subjects design, a

The Church of Sweden has a long history of social work, and until year 2000 the Church of Sweden was a part of the government. Officially, the divorce between the two has not implied other changes than that each one is now in charge of its own economy. This study was done with a qualitative method in which semi-structured interviews were conducted with three deacons and three social workers. The a

It's not just boys that get ADHD- a quantitative attitudinal survey of social work students The purpose of this quantitative study was to research the attitudes that social work students in Sweden have towards people who have been diagnosed with ADHD. ADHD has been recognized and established within the medical community for over a century but the controversy surrounding the diagnosis has over

Målet med denna studie var att få ökad kunskap om hur professionella inom människobehandlande organisationer resonerar kring narkotikapolitik, mer specifikt harm reduction och nollvision. Studiens analys är baserad på semi-strukturerade intervjuer med två socialsekreterare som arbetar med missbruk i en kommun i Södra Sverige samt en kvalitativ dokumentanalys av debattartiklar, författade av profesThe aim of this study was to gain knowledge regarding how professionals working in human service organizations reasons around drug policy, more specifically harm reduction and zero tolerance. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with two social workers who work towards drug addicts in a municipal human service organization and a qualitative document analysis of discussion articles,

This paper highlights the complexity and ambiguity regarding the phenomenon of so called honour-related violence and oppression and explores how these matters are taken into consideration in the field of social work. In order to explore this field of study we used qualitative research as the method of inquiry. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six female social workers working with pe

Studien syftade till att undersöka förhållandet mellan self-efficacy, trait anxiety och motivationsklimat hos studenter på Lunds Universitet (n=121). En kvantitativ enkätundersökning genomfördes online med mätinstrumenten General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) samt Motivational Climate at Work Questionnaire (MCWQ). En multipel regressionsanalys visade att trait anxThe purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, trait anxiety and motivational climate when it comes to students at Lund University (n=121). A quantitative survey was performed online with General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Motivational Climate at Work Questionnaire (MCWQ) as the measuring instruments. Although multiple r

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur den svenska lagstiftningen angående det personliga betalningsansvaret för styrelseledamöter i ett aktiebolag enligt 25 kap. 18 § ABL ser ut. Mer specifikt är syftet att undersöka när ansvaret aktualiseras samt hur rekvisitet skäl att anta kritisk kapitalbrist enligt 25 kap. 13 § p. 1 ABL ska tolkas. För att uppnå syftet har följande frågeställningar unThis paper investigates how the Swedish legislation regarding personal liability for board members in a limited company appears according to Chapter 25, section 18 in the Swedish Companies Act. Specifically, when liability is actualized as well as how the prerequisite “reason to assume” capital deficiency pursuant to Chapter 25, section 13 point 1 in the Swedish Companies Act shall be interpreted.

Earlier studies have shown that when assessing explanations of psychological phenomena, there is a bias for explanations including references to neuroscience, even when these references contain logically irrelevant information (Fernandez-Duque, Evans, Christian & Hodges, 2015; M inahan & Siedlecki, 2016; Weisberg, Keil, Goodstein, Rawson and Gray, 2008; Weisberg, Taylor & Hopkins, 2015

Google-ägda YouTube är idag en av världen största sociala plattformar där användare möts genom att skapa och konsumera innehåll. I mars 2017 utbröt en annonsbojkott på YouTube som utlöstes på grund av att annonsering från multinationella företag förekom i samband med videor som var centrerade kring terrorism och extremism. Avslöjandet fick stor medial uppmärksamhet på grund av företagens missnöje

The purpose of this study is to shed light on what motives social work students have in their choice of career, more specifically what their perceptions are regarding social services and how this guides them in their choice of career. The key research question is: how can we understand social work students’ motives in their choice of profession and career paths? The analysis is guided by the two c

Recently, municipal social departments have been effected harder by budget cutbacks. The aim of our study is to investigate how social workers’ discretion has been influenced when assessing actions under the impact of the budget, the law and the consideration of client needs. The study has been conducted using a qualitative approach in which seven semi-structured interviews were held with social s

Uppsatsen behandlar Ombudsmannen mot Etnisk Diskriminering och Diskrimineringsombudsmannens bedömningskriterier vid handläggning av diskrimineringsärenden som berör etnisk diskriminering. Ombudsmännens bedömningar jämförs med Arbetsdomstolens beslut i 17 rättsfall som berör etnisk diskriminering. Syftet är att analysera om det finns en skillnad mellan ombudsmännens bedömningar och ArbetsdomstolensThe essay discusses the Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination and Discrimination Ombudsman’s criteria of assessment when processing reported discrimination cases concerning ethnic discrimination. The Ombudsmen’s criteria of assessment are compared with the Swedish Labour Court’s decisions in 17 cases concerning ethnic discrimination. The purpose is to analyse if there is a difference between the

Denna kandidatuppsats är en litteraturstudie som beskriver och analyserar definitionen samt användningen av mindfulness. Rapporter från Försäkringskassan och SBU visar på en skrämmande ökning av sjukfall relaterade till stress och psykisk ohälsa, vilket har lett till stor problematik för företag och organisationer ekonomiskt såväl som vid rekrytering och bemanning. Mindfulness är ett begrepp som p

Uppsatsen handlar om den så kallade ansvarsgenombrottsteorin och dess principer. En hörnsten för aktiebolaget som associationsform är aktieägares begränsade ansvar för bolagets förpliktelser enligt 1 kap. 3 § Aktiebolagslagen (2005:551, ABL). Trots det har Högsta domstolen vid ett flertal fall ålagt aktieägare ansvar för ett bolags förpliktelser enligt principen om ansvarsgenombrott. AnsvarsgenombThe essay is about the so-called corporate veil and its principles. A cornerstone of a corporation as an association form is the limited liability of shareholders for the company's obligations under Chapter 1. § 3 Companies Act. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has in several cases charged shareholders with liability for a company's obligations according to the principle of the corporate ve