Studien undersöker hur familjehemsföräldrar och deras familjer påverkas av uppdraget som familjehem. Studien undersöker även hur familjehemsföräldrar hanterar egna uppkomna känslor, samt vilket stöd de erhåller i uppdraget. En kvalitativ metod användes där sju familjehemsföräldrar från fyra familjehem intervjuades utefter en semistrukturerad intervjuguide. Respondenternas uppgifter har analyserats utifrån systemteori, copingteori, utvecklingsekologi och teoretiska begrepp. Studiens resultat visar att uppdraget tar mycket tid och energi, vilket påverkar familjehemsföräldrarna, de biologiska barnen och deras vardag på en rad olika sätt.

Syftet med denna studie var att belysa vad arbetsgivare kan göra för att minska stressen hos den enskilde individen och på så sätt också minska ohälsotalen. Ett antal forskares syn på stress har studerats för att få fram vilka faktorer som har betydelse för den enskilde individens psykosociala arbetsmiljö. En enkätundersökning genomfördes för att mäta vilka faktorer som framkallar upplevd stress hos individen. Vår utgångspunkt bestod till stor del av Karaseks krav och kontrollmodell. De faktorer som mättes i enkäten var individens upplevda kontroll, krav, sociala stöd, personliga egenskaper och tekniskt informativt stöd.

This study is about being manager in social care and social welfare organisations. Ten women managers participate in the study and share their thoughts about management. Such organisations are an area where women are most frequent, so we wanted to take part of experiences women managers in this area obtain. The study concentrates upon factors these women encounter and which they feel can affect them in their daily work. The study shows that the women we interviewed have a basic interest in humans and a strong commitment to working for human well being.

The background to the study was to find out the view of three teachers on students reading comprehension. What strategies and methods are used by the teachers in the classroom when working with reading comprehension? How interaction between teacher and students happen when working with reading comprehension.   The theoretical research approach is based on a sociocultural perspective. Sociocultural perspective maintains that social interaction and cultural institutions, such as schools and classrooms have important roles to play in an individual?s cognitive growth and development.

The purpose of this study was to examine how some children with reading problems experience and use libraries. The main problem was: How do dyslectic children experience and use libraries and how do they handle their reading difficulties when using libraries? The questions at issue were: 1. Do children with reading problems use libraries, and if so how? - in which purposes do they use libraries? - which materials and services do they use? - why dont some children use libraries? 2.

In today?s individualistic society, I experience a need to bring forward the importance of collaboration. From a sociocultural perspective, I have chosen to highlight the positive and negative aspects of collaborative learning, with the intention of illustrating the effects for the individual learning and development. I have therefore made an interview with an educationalist, who?s been a teacher all her grown up life, with the intent of illustrating her thoughts on collaborative learning.

Vi har gjort en kvalitativ intervjustudie av hur de anställda på Svensk Kassaservice upplever att deras arbetssituation har förändrats efter omorganiseringen av Posten. Vi har intervjuat nio stycken kvinnor från olika kontor i fackförbundet SEKO:s Värmlandsdistrikt med hjälp av en halvstrukturerad intervjuguide. Vår teoretiska grund bygger på Karaseks krav- och kontrollmodell samt ett antal andra modeller för arbetstillfredsställelse. Vi har även använt oss av några psykologiska teorier för att förklara de aspekter som inte inryms i de tidigare nämnda modellerna. Intervjuerna genomfördes under oktober månad 2005 och analyserades sedan med hjälp av öppen kodning, där cirka sjuttio koncept bildades och sedan delades in i fem kategorier.

Arbetskraven på kvinnor och män är idag högre än tidigare och gränsen mellan arbete och privatliv har mer eller mindre suddats ut, vilket kan påverka hälsan negativt. Tack vare dagens teknik kan anställda vara tillgängliga i en större grad, och arbetet går att utföra på fler ställen än på själva arbetsplatsen. Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur individer med aktiva arbeten hanterar balansen mellan arbete och privatliv, och om de med aktiva arbeten kan drabbas av ohälsa på grund av arbetet. Aktiva arbeten innebär de arbeten med hög kontroll och höga krav som enligt Karaseks krav/kontrollmodell är de arbeten som sägs vara de "bästa" arbetena, för att prestera högt utan att drabbas av ohälsa. I den här studien har en kvalitativ undersökning genomförts, i form av intervjuer med sju respondenter som går inom de aktiva arbetena.

Library and information science students often ask themselves if their education will be sufficient and adapted to the work tasks they will meet with as future librarians. It is the aim of this Master thesis to investigate LIS-graduates' experiences of the transfer from academic studies into professional life. The thesis thus treats four questions: I: What problems, if any, does the LIS-graduate experience when first employed? 2: Does the recently employed librarian feel that the academically obtained knowledge is applicable in professional life? And, if so, how does it apply? 3: Does the new employee find that there are areas in which his/her academic education has been insufficient? 4: What is the general attitude towards LIS-graduates' education among colleagues and is the library staff prepared to provide the necessary instructions? The investigation is performed through interviews with eight LIS-graduates, all of whom have recently started working as public librarians. The analysis is based on the concepts of competence, qualifications, work skills, knowledge and in the processes of formal and practical learning.

The purpose of the study was to investigate, through an experiment, if positive mood promotes creativity and flexible thinking. Participants were a total of 93 college students. The main hypothesis was that subjects induced with positive mood would perform better than subjects induced with negative mood, at a test reflecting creativity. To further explore the implications of priming (subliminal manipulated moods), a neutral control group was included. The cognitive test used in the study was Duncker´s The Candle Problem, a test which aims to get the subjects to apply flexible and creative thinking.

The purpose of my essay is to see how teachers are working to integrate the two subjects Art and Swedish in their teaching, and to see how this integration is made. What do teachers think about subject-integration? What are the positive effects of it? Are there any difficulties involved? Do the teachers prioritize cooperation with other subjects?To answer my questions I have interviewed eight teachers, four of them in upper secondary school and four in lower secondary school. I have also studied literature about subject-integration and children?s learning, curriculum?s and syllabi in the subjects of Art and Swedish.The results of my study show that the interviewed teachers are positive when it comes to integrating Art and Swedish and other subjects.

On the behalf of the European commission suggestions were made on how to increase the usage of public transportation in cities in Europe. A suggestion on how to make public transportation more popular was to use more emotions when marketing public transportation. However, according to theory emotional marketing is best suited for products that have a more hedonic character which public transportation does not usually have. The aim of this report was to investigate if emotional marketing could have a more positive effect on the attitude toward public transportation than less emotional marketing. Ads for the metro in Stockholm were made and it was tested to what degree they conveyed positive emotions.

Schizophrenia can cause symptoms such as auditory hallucinations, delusions, emotional blunting, apathy and lack of motivation. These result in a diminished ability to participate in daily activities and bring the client group into the domain of occupational therapists. The purpose of this literature review is to compile the latest findings in occupational therapy interventions for individuals with schizophrenia. Furthermore guidance regarding the utility of the interventions will be given based on the author?s assessment of the evidence in the 22 articles included.

This essay is a comparative research between pupils' experience of how the headmaster, teachers and other school staff interpret and apply the democratic education. The results are based on a survey carried out in senior high school, as well as interviews with the school staff. The democratic education charge has a long history of Swedish school system and is the basis for the maintenance of a democratic society. Both policy paper of state investigations and researchers in the field, regard to school as the primary and unique instance in order to promote and develop democratic skills in children and young people. However, it is shown that those who come out from school lack of knowledge and awareness of democracy and the will to speak their mind.

An article review about chronic stress, which is harmful, how it manifest itself and affect females. The nursing perspective was also in focus, how the nurse can prevent unhealth caused by harmful stress among these females and how the nurse can help these women to help themselves..