The most common preventive and treatment service for children in child welfare services in Sweden is the contact family program. The number of children who are involved in the program has steadily increased. Usually it is a single mother who apply for or is offered this service. The aim with a contact family is that the parent should get respite and that the child should have its network enlarged and sometimes get a male role model.The purpose of this study was to look into how children´s perspective was considered in the contact family process. I have studied the process in order to see how it works and to see to what extent children is participating.

The aim of this qualitative study was to examine six individuals' experiences to talk about the sexual abuse that occurred in their childhood. We interviewed five women and one man, using a phenomenological approach during the work process. The theories emerged as we analyzed our results and appeared to be communication, cognitive theory, validation, trauma theory and taboo. The results showed that the respondents, whom disclosed the abuse as children, were most likely to get a negative response from both formal and informal support systems. While as adults they were confirmed to a greater extent and therefore achieved a better physical and mental wellbeing.

SammanfattningIntroduktion: Om patienter med cancersjukdom slutar röka innan strålbehandling påbörjas kan behandlingsresultat, biverkningsfrekvens och graden av biverkningar påverkas positivt.Syfte: Syftet med aktuell studie är att beskriva kunskap och attityder hos sjuksköterskor som arbetar med patienter med cancersjukdom gällande rökning och rökstopp inför eller under pågående strålbehandling.Metod: Den fullskaliga studien kommer att genomföras som en enkätstudie med slutna frågor samt öppna frågor, som analyseras med innehållsanalys. I syfte att pröva forskningsplanen genomfördes en pilotstudie i form av en enkätundersökning, där sammanlagt 20 enkäter delades ut på tre onkologenheter på ett universitetssjukhus.Resultat: Av de 20 utdelade enkäterna, besvarades 16. I frågorna med slutna svarsalternativ framkom bl.a. att majoriteten av sjuksköterskorna kände till att rökning påverkar biverknings-frekvens och graden av biverkningar vid strålbehandling (10/16). De kände även till att rökning i samband med strålbehandling påverkar behandlingsresultatet (12/16).

This essay discusses the decision of licensing for nursery and school teachers. In Swedish society there has for a long time been discourse about professionalisation within various industries, including teaching. One strategy towards achieving professional status is official authorisation of a profession, which occurs when a profession obtains licensing. In February 2011, the Swedish government announced the decision that nursery and school teachers would be licensed. This means that only those with an education can be employed as a teacher and obtain that license.

Acrylamide (AM) is a commonly used monomer in the manufacture of polyacrylamide. In addition, AM has been found in heated foods that are rich in starch. The main dietary sources in Sweden tend to be crisps, French fries, fried potatoes, crisp bread, cookies and coffee. Un-fortunately, dietary intake of AM has in several studies been shown to cause cancer in ro-dents. Consequently, the compound is currently regarded as a potential carcinogen in hu-mans.

Adoptive parents need to be able to reflect on the interaction with the child, both from the perspective of their own relational experience with the child and from the perspective of the previous experience of the child. This essay explores five adoptive parent´s thoughts and feelings about their children?s background. It also looks into how they think that the children?s background influences their way of expressing their needs and how this makes the parents feel.

The aim of this study was to reach a deeper understanding of the process that occurs within the social services after receiving a notification according to Chapter 14, section 1, The Social Services Act. More specifically the focus of this study was to illustrate how social secretaries reason about children?s participation in the process, as well as to examine whether the legislative change, Chapter 11, section 1 a, The Social Services Act, has affected the process in any way. The study?s results reflect interviews with five social secretaries who are active in four different municipalities in southern Sweden.

The aim with this study was to examine professional peoples' view on the reason why females, under the age of 18 years old, self-harm and the professionals view on their treatment. The study is qualitative and based on eight interviews with professional personnel who work with young females with self-harm behavior in the region of Skåne. To be able to analyze our qualitative interviews we used two theories; the attachment theory and trauma theory. The results of this study show that there are many different functions with the self-harm behavior and that the cause of the behavior can be different among the females. Most of the young females seem to self-harm to reduce anxiety but some also do it to punish themselves, to feel alive or to belong to a group of friends.

The aim of this study was to examine why young females develop self-harm behaviour. We also wanted to look at the differences between young females born in foreign countries and young females born in Sweden and investigate if there were any differences regarding the reasons for developing self-harm behaviour and the actual extent of the self-harm behaviour within the group. We used a qualitative method and performed interviews with nine professionals that work with young females with self-harm behaviour. To be able to analyse our qualitative interviews we used concepts such as modernity, anomie, safety and cultural differences in the bringing up of children. The results of this study shows that self-harm behaviour is a symptom of excessive anxiety, which can be caused by a number of reasons, such as childhood trauma or great demands in modern society.

Syftet med studien var att utveckla kunskap om hur pedagogerna skapar lärandetillfällen för barn att erövra litteracitet i förskolan. Syftet var också att synliggöra och jämföra två olika lärandemiljöer, den ena är utformad med stöd av förskolepedagogiken och den andra i kombination med denna och Tragetons metod ?Att skriva sig till läsning?. I bakgrunden åskådliggjorde vi hur förskolans olika styrdokument sett ut historiskt och hur den grundläggande läs- och skrivinlärningen förändrats fram till i dag. Denna kvalitativa studie baserades på intervjuer med fyra förskollärare ur de två olika undersökningsgrupperna.

I syfte att undersöka om, och i så fall hur, förskollärare arbetar med djuretik som en värderingsfråga undersöks (1) förskollärares tolkning av läroplanens skrivning om ?respekt för allt levande?, (2) hur förskollärare arbetar med värderingsfrågan djuretik och (3) vilken hänsyn de tar till läroplanens krav på saklighet och allsidighet i detta arbete. Empirin bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer med sex förskollärare varav 3 är vegetarianer. Analysen baseras på poststrukturalistisk teori och teori om den dolda läroplanen. Informanterna anger att de arbetar med djuretik i ringa omfattning men visar också att förskollärarna förmedlar omedvetna budskap om djuretik.

People who live in northern part of the world spend much more time indoors than those who live in warmer countries. In addition that home should be safe, it should also protect one against heat, cold, sunlight and pollution. The indoor environment is affected by installations, material and how the building is formed. Those anomalies that are visible, felt or smelled can be noticed and be rectified. But it?s much more difficult if these abilities are missing.

Bröstcancer är den vanligaste typen av cancer bland kvinnor i Sverige och varje år avlider cirka 1500 kvinnor till följd av att sjukdomen har spridit sig till andra delar av kroppen. Sjukdomen och de behandlingar som medföljer i den palliativa fasen bidrar till många kroppsliga förändringar och symtom hos den drabbade. De senaste åren har användningen av sociala medier, bland annat i form av bloggar, i samband med sjukdom ökat. Detta samband, i kombination med obotligt bröstcancersjuka kvinnors upplevelser, fann vi som sjuksköterskestudenter intressant och ville därför studera detta närmre. Syftet med studien är att studera hur fyra bloggande kvinnor med spridd bröstcancer upplevde sina kroppar under de två sista månaderna i livet.

Papillomvirus är ett cirkulärt naket dubbelsträngat DNA-virus som kan orsaka benigna eller maligna transformationer i epitel på de allra flesta djur. Olika djurslag har olika artspecifika papillomvirus. Viruset sprids via direkt- eller indirekt kontakt. Hos människa finns över 100 olika typer av humant papillomvirus (HPV) som har olika predilektionsställen på kroppen. Cirka 40 av dem angriper anogenitala områden där vissa kan ge upphov till könsvårtor medan andra ger cellförändringar som senare kan utvecklas till cancer. Hos kvinnor är slemhinnan i cervix känslig för onkogena HPV och cellförändringar där kan leda till cervixcancer (CC).

There's a good adherence to the vaccination of children, about 98% of all two year olds are vaccinated. Despite this, there are cases of whooping cough and measles in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to describe what motivates parents to not vaccinate and reflections and attiudes about vaccinations. The study had a descriptive design with qualitative approach. Eight parents who had chosen not to follow the National Board of Health?s vaccination program or whom had decided to completely abandon, participated in the study.