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The purpose of this study was to examine what possibilities and obstacles there are in using art as a method in social work with children and youth. Our questions were: · When and where is art as a method used in social work with children and youth? · How is art as a method used with children and youth? · What are the possibilities and obstacles in using art as a method with children and youth? ·
Sjöbo - countryside in Sweden, became famous for something that isn´t flattering. They made a vote against refugees with residence permit and didn´t change their minds for more than 12 years. Since the year 2000 they have recieved refugees. This is an explorative study where we have chosen to interview four local politicians and two clerks from Sjöbo community. We looked at the change from a no to
The purpose of this paper was to study how gender is represented and passed on in a small number of juvenile books. I wanted to find out what parts girls and boys play in the stories, in what circumstances they figure and which problems they are ascribed. I chose six popular books for the youth, and studied them meticulously. The study is qualitative and I asked the text questions just like you wo
This essay tries to find out if the big city, the metropolis, can offer a free life for its inhabitants. The criteria for a free life are that you have individual freedom, tolerance, anonymity and heterogeneity. This means that the big city holds a diverse population with different life styles, views on life, attitudes and more. Do these heterogeneous consequences come from a tolerant atmosphere?
Anorexia nervosa is a psychological disorder characterized by an aversion to eating and fear of gaining weight. Our aim was to examine and obtain an understanding of what causes the individual to develop anorexia nervosa. We also wanted to point out different methods of treatment available to the patients. Our questions at issue were: What major causes and life events might initiate the developmen
The goal for this essay was to achieve knowledge about the discoveries and experiences with the Marte Meo- method through the interviews with professional social workers and a client. The four questions in the essay were: · What expectations did the social workers have of the lessons in the method? · What experiences did they have of the lessons in the method? · What expectations did the social wo
The purpose of this essay was to study how four municipalities have arranged their support to women who are exposed to violence. The purpose was also to study if the legislator's intentions and the National board of health and welfare's recommendations about Socialtjänstlagen 5:11 were fulfilled. The legislator and the National board of health and welfare recommended the welfare offices to
The aim of this paper was to examine which theories on suicide that exist, and to compare the reasons given by the different theories why some people kill themselves. This has been done as an analysis of litterature within the field. The two main theories are the sociological theory and the psychological theory. The sociological theory explains suicides to be due to factors in society, while the p
This is a qualitative study of the children's home Onesimus' Brothers. In 1992 pastor Dugulescu decided to start a program to meet the streetchildrens needs. The purpose of this paper was to explore how the children's orphanage is organised and what the purpose and the methods of the work are. The question asked were: * How has the institutional care on the orphanage developed and chan
Keywords: Migration, Women, Germany, Sweden, the Welfare State The purpose with this research was to study ten Swedish women’s immigration to North Rhine - Westphalia in Germany. The main questions covered: 1. Reasons for immigration. 2. Experiences of the immigration process. 3. Description of everyday life in Germany. The research is based on a qualitative method. The interviews were half struct
We have in our essay compared Folkpartiet liberalernas, Moderata samlingspartiets and Ny Demokratis presented proposal about demanded knowledge in language for immigrants to receive citizenship. The main purpose with the essay was to examine which similarities and differences there was between the three party-political proposals. We found close points of similarity between the proposals. The main
The purpose with this essay, was to examine if the drugpolitical policy related to the development of the methadon treatment in St: Lars in Lund versus the Socialphsytiatric clinic in Roskilde. We wanted to compare the rehabilitation methods and by that, emphasise possible simularitys and differenses. We choose to work with the following questions: -In what way does the drugpolitical policy effect
The purpose of this paper was to examine how the intervention "Conversational-contact with the social services" actually looks and how it is experienced by the youths who attend it and the social workers who are providing it. The research was based on a qualitative method consisting of individual interviews. Main issues of the paper: - The youths- and social workers' experience of th
The purpose of this paper was to get a picture of how young Roma/Gypsies look upon themselves, their culture and their future. We were also interested in knowing how they felt about the way society look upon them. The main questions of issue were in what ways are young Roma/Gypsies affected by the culture they were brought up in, if they had felt discriminated by the society and how they look upon
The aim of this essay has been to study the work of personal agents in Kristianstad. Personal agents was initiated by National Government with the purpose to recognize the needs of mentally disabled, and through a function as coordinaters give a better support to these clients. The main questions in this study are focused on the personal agents experience of their work, and how clients and their i
Our purpose was to study different actors opinion about what reasons there are to homelessness among young abusers in Malmö. When we are talking about young abusers we mean those who are under 25 years old. Our central questions were: Which reasons could different actors see? Were the actor’s view of the reasons the same or were there any difference? How was the cooperation between the different a
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
Our purpose was to elucidate the situation of asylum children that lives in Sweden. As we sat out to do this we had the following central framing of questions: - Who has the ultimate responsibility of the asylum children? - What is the situation of the asylum children in northwestern Skåne? - How does the cooperation between governments function concerning the situation of the asylum children in S
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
