Each year about 25 000 people in Sweden contract brain injuries. The aim of my study was to find out how people with an acquired brain injury change their self- consciousness, because of changed relations to the networks. The network was divided into the social network: family and self-chosen relations, and the professional network: Human Service Organizations based upon occupation and characteriz

The purpose of this paper was to, from a user perspective examine and describe how the cares of people with learning disabilities in two care residences fulfil stated quality objectives. Another purpose was also to examine if the quality tool, Quest, was useful when evaluating Swedish conditions. The result shows the conditions were good for performing high quality care, but there are certain need

This composition is based on a rural district with 14 000 inhabitants. It's an agricultural district with much summer tourism. During the last five to ten years the summer tourists have started to by houses in the district. They can offer a lot more than the locals. The consequences will be that the locals will live in specific areas that are less attractive. Four interviews have been made wit

The purpose of our essay was to investigate whether a certain group of young people felt that they had a chance to live according to the rules and standards that rule our society through certain given support actions. Central issues were, e.g., if we could understand the situation of the adolescents through certain theories about social background and integration. Were the adolescents considered a

The purpose of this essay was to examine how eight persons described their fathers, out of qualities, function and role. We also wanted to find out how they described their idealfather. Second the purpose was to compare the experience from two groups of respondents. Four of the respondents had grown up with a biological father and the other four with a non-biological father. Were there any differe

This study investigated the validity of the Children's Sense of Coherence Scale, CSOC (in Swedish BarnKASAM-testet). We also studied if the test, from a developmental psychological point of view, was possible to use with children in grade 1-4, aged 7-11 years old. The results of the scale were also compared with two other test instruments that were expected to measure similar qualities. The CS

The purpose of our paper was to examine what it is like to be a young mother in todays society. We have focused on the young mothers social network and how people around them has been treating them. We have also looked at what kind of support the young mothers get from the society and how they picture their future. We have been working out of a qualitative method of inquiry and interviewed ten mot

The purpose of this essay was to study the social planning, in terms of age care, of the elderly immigrants in Sweden. I wanted to examine if elderly immigrants have special needs and if so, how they are met. I also wanted to find out in what way elderly immigrants are taken into consideration in the planning process of age care and how one can relate that to the planning of age care in general. M

På frågeställningen om hur smittskyddslagen tillämpas, efterföljs och upplevs blev svaren på de enkäter som delades ut en viktig informationskälla då dessa blev svarade på av människor som är direkt påverkade av SmL. Som ett gemensamt drag över de svaren som skrevs var att de visste om sina rättigheter och skyldigheter, men de tyckte inte att SmL var rättvis mot dem som är hiv positiva. De menade

The Bush administration expanded the executive’s powers in the “war on terror”. This gave the president, according to the administration, authority to detain “en-emy combatants” indefinitely at the US naval base in Guantánamo. The official purpose of the detention centre at Guantánamo was that the suspected terrorists were to be tried in military commissions. The administration bypassed the crimin

Today our conception of the Middle Ages is accompanied by musicians who claim to play "in the old-fashioned way". Nevertheless reconstructions of a concept as abstract as music could be questioned. The purpose of this essay is to illuminate and discuss the conditions of reconstructed medieval music and its relation to the original tradition. What characterizes the music tradition of the