As part of the project Self esteem and Life circumstances among teenagers (started by Johnsson, Lundh & Wångby at Lund University in 2006) results from pilot studies of expressive writing (intervention initially created by Pennebaker and Beall, 1986) among adolescents in six secondary school classes in Sweden were investigated. The study describes changes from pre-test to follow-up on adapted versions of Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and Emotional Tone Index. Different strategies for emotion regulation are focused: voluntary and involuntary engagement and voluntary disengagement (Connor-Smith, Compas, Wadsworth, Harding Thomsen & Saltzman, 2000). The study is explorative. Results show a tendency towards more frequent diary use at follow-up for participants in expressive writing.

Results from previous studies have shown that people with depression tend to have impaired executive functions, although it's not clear whether this is also true for mild depression in young people. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mild depressive symptoms and executive functions in young individuals. 60 participants, between 18-33 years of age, took part in this study. They were divided into two groups; a "depressed group" (n = 8), with mildly depressed subjects, and a "none-depressed group" (n = 52). The depressed group was significantly impaired on several executive tests, namely TMT A (p = 0,025), TMT B (p = 0,040), FAS (p = 0,002), WAIS-R Digit Span Backwards (p = 0,047) and CWTa - subtest colour naming (p = 0,001), which evaluated abilities such as shifting, verbal fluency, working memory, attention and mental flexibility.

Idag är det allmänt känt att barn upplever stress både i skola och förskola. Att många barn visar tecken på negativ stress gör att kraven på oss vuxna ökar och det visar även tydliga brister i vårt sätt att möta barnens behov och krav. Jag är övertygad om att avslappningsövningar kan fungera som ett avbrott i den annars så bullriga och aktiva vardag våra barn lever i. Syftet med denna rapport var att ta reda på små barns reaktioner på avslappningsträning. Undersökningen genomfördes under fem veckor på en 1-4-årsavdelning, gruppen bestod av fyra barn.

Bakgrund: Depression i kombination med andra sjukdomar ger ökad vårdbelastning, vårdkostnader och ökad dödlighet för patienten. Syftet: med litteraturstudien var att belysa sjuksköterskans roll vid identifierandet och diagnostiseringen av äldre deprimerade patienter över 65 år. Metod: Uppsatsen är en litteraturöversikt som involverar 11 vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultat: Både sjuksköterskor och patienter undviker att samtala om emotionella problem. Sjuksköterskan har stor potential att bli bättre i identifierandet och i kontakten med patienten.

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.

This thesis examines how library employees experience the library as a meeting place. Our questions are: What effect has the concept of a "library as a meeting-place" for library staff?How do they see the library as a meeting place? How do they see their workplace as a venue for meetings? The respondents interviewed work in public libraries. We were inspired by a cultural geographic theory that we re-designed. The following divisions were made in order to give the work a definitive structure:The "mental space"The library as a meeting place on a global and universal level;The "conceived space"Librarians and planners' thinking on the specific library as a meeting place;The "living space"How library staff perceive that the library is used as a meeting place in reality.In our analysis, we use a phenomenographic qualitative interpretive methodology.

The purpose of this study is to analyse and describe social work students? view on a person with self-injurious behaviour and the following issues. The aim and focus is on the general depiction. The theoretical perspectives have been intersectionality and its focus on social constructivism, and gender perspectives. The method was semi-structured interviews with eight social work students at Linnaeus University Kalmar.

Bakgrund: Kronisk hjärtsvikt är ett ökande sjukdomstillstånd bland befolkningen och påverkar det dagliga livet för de drabbade.Syfte: Syftet med studien är att beskriva fysisk aktivitet samt dess betydelse för livskvalitet för vuxna personer med kronisk hjärtsvikt.Metod: En systematisk litteraturstudie valdes som metod. Sökning av artiklar gjordes via databaserna PubMed, Cinahl och ELIN@kalmar.Resultat: Fysisk aktivitet i form av specialutvecklade träningsprogram är en betydelsefull faktor för patienter som lider av kronisk hjärtsvikt. Fysisk aktivitet har en positiv effekt på samtliga dimensioner av livskvalitet (global, fysisk, mental och social) hos de personer som lider av kronisk hjärtsvikt.Slutsats: Det är viktigt att vårdpersonal, däribland sjusköterskor, möjliggör att fysisk aktivitet blir lättillgänglig och genomförd för alla patienter som drabbas av kronisk hjärtsvikt och detta så tidigt som möjligt för att undvika en snabb försämring av deras livskvalitet.Nyckelord: kronisk hjärtsvikt, livskvalitet, fysisk aktivitet, omvårdnad..

Syftet med vårt examensarbete är att undersöka vilken geografisk omvärldsbild elever har, dvs. vilken inre karta de har av världen, och hur den formas. Vi har använt oss av en metod bestående av en enkät med både allmänna frågor om elevens erfarenheter samt tre kunskapsbaserade uppgifter om kartan. Den första av dessa tre är en öppen uppgift där eleven ombeds rita världskartan på ett blankt papper. Det görs sedan kopplingar mellan elevernas erfarenheter, kunskaper och den mentala kartan.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between the elderly at a retirement home and their professional caretakers with focus on the perspective of the elderly. Chosen method, a qualitative interview analysis has been conducted to describe how the relationship affects the elderly in their everyday lives. The total amount of interviews were four. The relationship between the elderly and their professional caretakers has rarely been examined in previous research from an elder?s perspective.The results indicate that the elderly often are satisfied with the way the professional caretakers treat them.

This study aims to examine how the interventions for homeless persons in the municipality of Kalmar are organized. The study is based on four half-structured qualitative interviews with both representatives from different instances and also from persons who have experience of being homeless.The theoretical bases we have used to analyze the material are organization theory, specifically the concept of bureaucracy. Our results show that homelessness is not seen as a problem in itself, since the general view is that homeless people often have a complex problem scenario where drug- and alcohol abuse and mental illness are common.It is often the latter that takes priority in the interventions and the housing question is therefore neglected. We also found that social services do not have a satisfactory structure around the organization of the work on homelessness. They do not have any specific device in Kalmar that focus on homelessness issues with the result that the existing units are forced to take care of the work of homelessness.

Objective: To study the evidence on physical activity (PA) as an effective preventive strategy for depression.Methods: A search of electronic databases was performed for articles between 2007 and 2012, both original research and review articles, concerning the link between PA and depression on children, youth and adults. Three reviews, five longitudinal and two cross sectional studies were included.Results:  PA reduced the likelihood of depression in many studies and a sedentary or inactive lifestyle increased the risks for mental health symptoms such as depression. One study showed that low PA in childhood increased the odds of depression as an adult and other studies on teenagers saw a connection and mediation between PA and self-esteem whereas physical fitness showed no mediating effect. Many of the studies and reviews point out the insecurity regarding the dose-response association and the difficulties in defining causality.Conclusion: PA might have a preventive effect on depression. Some evidence exist to support that PA in childhood prevents depression in adults.

The use of computer games has grown exponentially in the past few years and StarCraft II is one of the most popular e-sports today, played by millions of people worldwide. This study investigates the game?s effect on skills, as perceived by the players of StarCraft II.The study was conducted by using an empirical survey and interviews. The skills being investigated were both physical and mental in their nature. The conclusion was that the majority of players perceived that their skills regarding reaction speed, multitasking, APM, analysis and strategy were increased the most, while there was a smaller change in social skills and language skills.

Syftet med studien var att i en intervention undersöka om mentala träningsprogram kan förbättra koncentrationsförmågan hos 17 allsvenska bandyspelare (M = 22,7, Sd = 4,59). Dessutom fanns en hypotes om att en förbättrad koncentrationsförmåga gav en bättre prestationsförmåga. Resultatet visade ett signifikant positivt resultat i 10 av 12 variabler när det gällde spelarnas utveckling av koncentration, från mätning 1 till mätning 2. Vidare visade sig spelarnas utveckling kunna kategoriseras i två överordnade teman, nämligen utveckling av färdigheter relaterade till interventionen och personlig utveckling. Dessutom hittades ett signifikant samband i att ju högre utvecklad tävlingskoncentration spelarna upplevde desto högre utvecklad prestationsförmåga upplevde de sig ha utvunnit.

Recept upptäcktes redan på 1600-talet fast i en annan skepnad än i dag, nuförtiden är recepten kortfattade och uppstrukturerade, det utnyttjar kallskänkor genom att utveckla en kod, de ser ingredienserna fort. Kallskänksyrket har funnits sedan 1900-talet men inte med samma innebörd och arbetsuppgifter. I arbetet finns en beskrivning av atmosfären i köket, personalens uppdelning och utbildningens kursplan.Syftet med studien var att utforska om kallskänkor arbetar med recept under matlagningen. Forskningsmetoden grundades på kvalitativa intervjuer. Arbetet bygger på mitt intresse för recept som blev starten för utformningen av den kvalitativa intervjuguiden som användes.Överlag skiftar användningen av recept, en del använder kokböcker medan andra förvarar grundrecepten i huvudet.