The first aim of this study was to on historical background survey women's alcohol habits and especially to investigate women aged 50-59 living in the Lund area. The second aim was to increase the understanding of how women's sex role has a restrictive influence on their alcohol habits. To investigate women's alcohol habits I made two quantitative studies. From secondary data I found t

Denna uppsats ger en bild av hur en grupp unga kvinnor i åldern 20-26 år tänker om och kring sin sexualitet. 13 informanter har genom "snöbollsmetoden" valts ut och i halvstrukturerade intervjuer talat om bl a varför de har sex, vilket samband de ser mellan sex och kärlek och vilka konsekvenser de anser att allt prat om sex får. Intervjuerna har spelats in på kassettband och därefter ord

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has been developed in the USA by Marsha M Linehan, during the last two decades. Linehan elaborated this method for self-destructive women and in continuous cooperation with those women in treatment throughout her research. Randomised controlled studies have showed good results for self-destructive women with a borderline personality disorder. This group of patien

The purpose of this study is to examine the thought processes behind judgements, based on the first impression, which people do about others. As these judgements can have a profound effect, our aim is to increase awareness about what influences them. We have used the phenomenological method, which proceeds from "self-reports". Our 10 participants were asked, through open questions, to wr

The theory about the elderly has been formulated based upon the analysis of 14 one-hour interviews with self-sufficient urban pensioners from 67 to 87 years of age. The main goal of this study was to explore the subjective experience of aging and reproduce this experience as a verifiable, Grounded theory. Our theory is compared and linked to the Theories of Gerotranscendence, Mindfulness, Socioemo

This project has been carried out on behalf of ALMI Företagspartner and the regional council in south Sweden (Region Skåne). Its aim has been to look for eventual differences between, from a strict economical criterion, growing and non-growing female entrepreneurs. The study also investigates eventual differences between younger and older women leading companies successfully. Data collection was o

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur sagor bidragit till att de personer som jag intervjuat kunnat bearbeta de svåra trauman som de alla upplevt under barndomen och lyckats vända utvecklingen så att de idag härigenom lever liv som de själva upplever som meningsfulla. För att uppnå detta syfte har jag valt att utgå från ett kvalitativt angreppssätt och genomföra intervjuer. Utifrån intervjusva

Coaching tycks bli ett allt vanligare fenomen i vårt samhälle, inte bara inom idrotten. Vårt intresse för coaching har gjort att vi funnit det intressant att undersöka huruvida det finns någon pedagogisk substans i metoden. Vi har i denna uppsats valt att ställa coaching i relation till en aktuell samhällsfråga: problemet med den stressrelaterade ohälsan i arbetslivet och de mål som vissa aktörer

Title: Guys from the suburb and extraordinary robbers from Södermalm. The construction of cultural identity in Swedish hip hopmusic. Aim: The aim of the essay was to investigate how texts from three Swedish Hip Hop artists construct representations of reality. The main focus of the essay was to look at the (re)construction of cultural identity within the Swedish Hip Hop culture. Questions that ha

Syfte: I denna uppsats har vi utgått från RFSL/RFSU´s senaste sommarkampanj "Kom i kondom" 2002. Syftet har varit att genomföra en studie ur ett sändarperspektiv och analysera hur RFSL/RFSU har gått tillväga vid planeringen och utförandet av kampanjen. Frågeställningar: Våra frågeställningar är: Hur är RFSL/RFSU´s kampanj upplagd och utformad? Varför har man valt att utforma kampanjen på

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa skildringen av den irakiska civilbefolkningen under Irakkriget 2003 i två tidningar, Dagens Nyheter och New York Times. Frågeställningar: - Hur skildras den irakiska civilbefolkningen i Dagens Nyheter och New York Times? - Har skildringen förändrats under de dagar vi valt att undersöka? - Vilka skillnader, om några, finns i medierapporteringen? Metod: För

Problem: Medierna är en viktig faktor i formandet av vår världsbild. Trots den nya kommunikationsteknologins framväxt är traditionella medier såsom press, radio och TV fortfarande den huvudsakliga källan till information för oss medborgare. Det är den av journalister skapade bilden av verkligheten, snarare än verkligheten själv som sedan ligger till grund för våra handlingar. Det är därför viktigt

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 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

The purpose of this assignment was to illustrate how some young boys, who attend upper secondary school on the specific ice hockey and dancing branches, look upon manliness, how they consider themselves and the environment in which they are active. Key questions were how they consider themselves, how they consider their immediate environment, what the sport gives them, and how they view upon their

The purpose of this paper has been to observe and compare similarities and differences in approaches to work and providing for themselves amongst two groups of young people between the ages of 19-24, the so called generation Y, one including people who were currently out of work and therefor involved in jobseeking activities and another group who were undergraduate students of social work. We want

Detta är en utvärdering av en metod som syftar till att utveckla och effektivisera samverkan mellan myndigheter i en kommun; Gemensamma Individuella Handlingsplaner, GIH. En grupp handläggare från fyra myndigheter har arbetat fram metoden inom ett delprojekt ingående i ett större lokalt samverkansprojekt, FRISAM. Projektet riktar sig till personer med många myndighetskontakter, försörjningsstöd oc

The aim of this study is to decribe social care in homes for elderly mentally frail people and by means of social-philosophical theories identify and analyse these in relation to practical working in social care. The quality study has been possible by the use of interviews with four care-workers and by participant observation. My opinion is that - regarding quality aspects - there isn´t enough tim

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In the past decades there has been a progress in the legislation which regulates the rights of battered women. The social services are the authority which has the primary responsibility for battered women. This responsibility is regulated in the law since 1998. Evaluations have shown that the support for battered women needs to be improved since a majority of the rural districts don’t have any eme