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The purpose with this essay was to examine and understand factors with great importance for the new employed social welfare secretaries' integration into their working environment. It was a qualitative study done with eight interviews and as a result it gave us the social welfare secretaries' experiences. We proceeded from following questions: o What kind of reception does the new employed

The aim with this paper is to trying to give its reader an insight into the alleged abuse at institutions for children that was run by various religious orders of the Catholic church in Ireland. My research is mainly based on the 20th century, but I have also taken earlier centuries into account in order to get a wider picture of the development of the service provided by the religious orders. I h

The purpose of this assignment was to examine how two different workplaces are dealing with alcohol- and drugquestions among their employees. Key questions were: how is the work with alcohol- and drugquestions organised? how is the chosen organization carried out? and which are the possibilities and inconveniences in the work? The method used in this essay was semi-structured interviews with six r

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Immigrants that wants to come to Sweden and don´t have any visas, residence permit or passports and are not cooperative will be placed by the Swedish authorities at "förvaret". The purpose of this essay was to investigate "förvaret" in perspective of human rights and legal security. The questions at issue, which are connected to the purpose are: Are there any connections betwee

The aim of this essay was to examine and discuss the conception collaboration, both from earlier research and in a concrete practice, namely the work that pursues between the Social welfare and the psychiatry, against drog abusers with psychial illness in the authority of Simrishamn. My questions was: What is a collaboration and how can it be defined? What factors are deciding how the collaboratio

The purpose of this paper is to examine the experience of Bosnian girls being raised in two different cultures at once: the Bosnian and the Swedish. I conducted qualitative interviews with five Bosnian-born girls between the ages of 14 and 19. All of these girls have moved to Sweden due to the war in Bosnia. The central interview questions were: what differences they saw between the Swedish and th

The purpose of this essay was to study how youths view love, sexuality and coexistence. Our intention was to study how today’s adolescence reflect upon these matters. Our main questions were related to love, family constellation, reasons for breaking up from a relationship and the consequences that follow that, sex and questions concerning the gender aspect of a relationship. The study was qualita

This essay is a survey about how important laws regarding women, has lead forward to present day's legislation regarding women battering in Sweden. We have chosen to concentrate on the battered woman's situation. The laws has through centuries given the man a right to beat his wife. Has the way of looking at women's situation in society changed the laws regarding women battering? Has t

The aim of this study was to get a picture of the existing knowledge on women in prison. This knowledge is to be found in earlier research, in the material of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service and with people working, paid or voluntarily, with women in prison. To get a broad picture I did both a literature study and qualitative interviews with people working at a prison. There is not much r

The purpose of this paper was; to shed light on former drug addicted mothers and what importance various factors have had on their way to sobriety, and the importance of these factors for maintaining sobriety. Essential questions were: · How important is the pregnancy for sobriety? · How important is motherhood for sobriety? · How important is treatment for sobriety? · How important is the social

The purpose with this studie is to illuminate the areas of social work and volonteer work within healthcare in Warsaw, Poland. I also want to problematize around the possibilities and obstacles for social work and to find out if volonteer work has any impact on the socialworkers situation. The central questions for my studie is: 1 Is there any social work done within healthcare in Warsaw, in that

A number of theories explain how and why groups are setting up boundaries between them. Groups are often categorising each other and individuals are created into stereotypes for belonging to a certain group. Our theory is that there exist boundaries between individuals and small groups within a larger group. We examined different factors that we think could participate in these exclusion- and incl

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur personer som tidigare erhållit socialbidrag beskriver orsakerna till att de inte längre behöver socialbidrag samt hur de upplevde kontakten med socialtjänsten. Målgruppen har varit hushåll som idag klarar sin försörjning utan det behovsprövade socialbidraget. Undersökningsgruppen bestod av 158 hushåll i Jönköpings kommun som under 1997 avslutat sin kontakt

The purpose of this paper was to listen to juvenile criminals about there experience of the social service secretary, the sentence and the correctional system. The questions I wanted an answer to was: how did the youngster experience the contact with the soical service? What did they think of the sentence and the measure from the social service? Did they have any significant others who could helpe

The aim of this essay was to examine, from the relative's angle, which actions and behaviour that had an effect on how the relatives valued the encounters with the personnel at so called group housing for persons with cognitive disabilities. The constructional frame of the investi-gation originated from two presumptions. Firstly that the encounter between people is af-fected both by the person

The purpose of this essay was to find out why people who had used alcohol and narcotics for a long time, stoped using drugs. If there were any special occurrences, personal skills or surroundings that influenced sobernes. The main questions were: · Why stop using drugs? · How has the way to a drug free life turned out? · Were there any special occurrances or factors that started the drug free life

The purpose of this paper was to find out which objectives the curriculum for the compulsory basic school (Lpo 94) and the Education Act, states for the support of pupils in need of special support in general and the measure programmes in particular, furthermore which experiences the pupils and their custodians have about the support and the measure programmes, which have been offered in the compu

The aim of the study was to analyze the reasons behind the increasing number of people with the diagnosis Asperger syndrome and the effect of the diagnosis on the individual, the family and society. The theoretical approach was based on the theories of Michel Foucault and complemented with two articles by Mats Börjesson and Per Solvang. I asked the following questions: How was the diagnosis establ