The aim of this study was to illuminate how social workers in social services work with the social phenomenon, homelessness in two municipalities. The study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with interviewees from a department of social services. Our theories that we used was resistant inequality, structural discrimination, exclusion, empowerment and representation. After compilation of our empirical our conclusions are that homelessness is a complex phenomenon. Social workers handles homelessness based on client?s needs and the work is individualized.

De äldre i den svenska befolkningen blir allt fler och allt äldre. Forskning kring äldres hälsa och de faktorer som tros påverkar denna blir därför allt viktigare. En av de faktorer som tros påverka hälsan positivt, även i äldre åldrar, är sociala relationer. En djupare förståelse kring sambandet mellan olika typer av sociala relationer och olika aspekter av hälsa skulle göra det möjligt att lättare identifiera de grupper som riskerar att drabbas negativt hälsomässigt till följd av den sociala situationen, vilket i sin tur kommer att möjliggöra effektivare hälsofrämjande och sjukdomsförebyggande insatser. Syftet med den här studien är att studera hur sambandet mellan olika typer av sociala relationer och utvalda aspekter av hälsa ser ut hos de allra äldsta i den svenska befolkningen.

The aim of this study is to illuminate factors in nurses´ work, which can cause a state of exhaustion called burn out. The results indicate that work related mental illness is a lengthy process that gives rise to both physical and psychical problems. These problems might lead to a state of burn out. However, several authors prefer to use expressions like exhaust syndrome or exhaust depression as they are criticising the concept of burn out. The study is a literature analysis of 11 scientific articles that have been scrutinized using the criterions presented by Polit et al (2001).

Bakgrund: Anorexia Nervosa påverkar individen både fysiskt och psykiskt och är en allvarlig och livshotande sjukdom där många av kroppens olika organsystem påverkas. Det är av stor vikt att sjukdomen upptäcks i tid så att behandling snabbt kan sättas in. Forskning har visat att sjuksköterskor upplevde bristande kunskaper inom psykisk ohälsa och hade därmed svårigheter att vårda patienter med anorexia.Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva familjens erfarenheter av att leva med en familjemedlem med anorexia. Metod: Litteraturstudien baserades på tio vetenskapliga artiklar, fem med kvantitativ ansats och fem med kvalitativ ansats. En integrerad analys utfördes utifrån Kristenssons (2014) beskrivning.Resultat: De kategorier som framkom i analysen var Familjedysfunktion, Psykisk belastning, Familjens hanteringsstrategier, Familjens erfarenheter av bemötande från vårdpersonal och Erfarenheter av att vårda.

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.

AbstractAuthor: Josefin Gustavsson, Moa OsbäckTitle: School social workers view on young people using social media ? a study with a discourse theoretical approach [Skolkuratorers syn på ungas användande av sociala medier ? en studie med en diskursteoretisk ansats]Supervisor: Anders GiertzAssessor: Jan Petersson The aim of this study is to investigate school social workers view on young people using social media. With this study we are intended to understand how discourses affect the interventions of school social workers. This study has a qualitative approach and contains seven interviews with school social workers and one social worker who responded through a written response document. The interviews were semi-structured to enable spontaneous reflections and to catch the essence of the respondent?s language in the context as a school social worker.

Health is a complex concept and therefore difficult to define. The concept today playsan important role in society as well as in school, due to the inactivity of today?s youth. Thelatest curriculum for the compulsory school, Lpo 94, has increased the focus on the concept ofhealth, as a part of the physical education, but how the teacher chooses to construct theeducation is still up to each individual, which leads to a vast room for personal interpretation.This is the starting-point of our qualitative, ethnographical, study, that has resulted inthis composition. By passively participating during four lessons as well as interviewing twoteachers in physical education we have been able to analyse how the education regarding theconcept of health was constructed.

Our curiosity was awakened when we became aware that many social workers use "mindfulness" methods in their profession. In this study, we used qualitative methodology in our desire to examine and understand why the mindfulness approach, with its roots in eastern philosophy, is becoming established in society at large and, simultaneously, being used in the social work field. We were interested in when and why social workers choose to use mindfulness with their clients. Our prior research has revolved around development and use of methods in social work, and on the human reaction to stress.We conducted seven semi-structured interviews, which incorporated four comprehensive questions:1. Why has the mindfulness method become established in the social work field and in the culture in general?2.

Vi har funnit att den sociala identiteten har förändrats på Banverket Projektering i och med organisationsförändringen, och att coaching haft inverkan på detta. Vidare har framkommit att det förekommer gråzoner inom coachingverksamheten. Gråzonerna kan motverkas genom social identitetscoaching. Social identitetscoaching bygger på utvidgad och koncentrerad gemenskap, utbyte av åsikter och trygghet för de anställda..

Den psykiska ohälsan ökar alltmer i samhället och en utsatt grupp är universitetsstudenter. Ett uttryck för psykisk ohälsa är utbrändhet, som består av tre dimensioner: emotionell utmattning, cynism samt bristande upplevd prestation. Positiv hälsa har av tradition inte studerats lika mycket, men har kommit att intressera allt fler forskare. Ett begrepp inom positiv hälsa är psykologiskt välbefinnande, som består av sex olika dimensioner. Föräldraskapets betydelse för den psykiska hälsan har visat sig variera, varför syftet med studien var att undersöka hur föräldraskapet påverkar det psykologiska välbefinnandet och graden av utbrändhet hos studenter.

Lately, alarming reports have appeared regarding the work environment and work situation of social workers. Research focusing on the promotion of health and well-being in the workplace among other professionals show that factors such as social relationships, ability to influence their work situation and leadership are important. A quantitative study was conducted focusing on the work climate for social workers employed by some of the district administrations in the City of Malmö. A questionnaire with questions and statements on various factors in the work environment was sent to 34 social workers. They were asked how important these factors were for their well-being, as well as to what extent they felt that these factors were present at work.

In this paper we examine the view of mental illness is in a male dominated organization and what strategies are used to handle mental illness by the organization and the individual. We conduct semi structured qualitative interviews with persons who have in some way been in contact with mental illness within the organisation, we then encode our material from a themed analysis. We analyze the material and illustrate our problem area on the basis of Erving Goffmans theories of interaction and on R.W. Connells theory of hegemonic masculinity. We also show how previous studies of how men seek help for mental illness can help to enlighten our research area.

Studiens syfte är att undersöka den psykiska ohälsan hos elever som går på högstadiet ur kuratorers perspektiv. Detta för att lyfta deras syn på problematiken och det preventiva arbete som bedrivs. Forskning visar att elevers psykiska hälsa har försämrats de senaste 20 åren och att tjejer mår sämre än killar. Med anledning av detta utgår denna studie med fokus på den sociala konstruktionen av roller och kategorier. Studiens frågeställningar är som följer:- Hur påverkar kön, klass, etnicitet och sexualitet tjejers psykiska ohälsa?- Vilken betydelse har konstruktionen av genus för hur tjejer och killar mår? - Vad har tjejer för makt att påverka sitt eget mående? (ej behandlad pga.

To log on to social media has become an obvious part of people's everyday routine. Pictures, videos, opinions, and thoughts are posted and read by people's social networks worldwide. In doing so, the present study chose to examine whether what is posted on social media, as well as what the individuals are exposed to on social media can be related to their motivation and self-esteem. By letting 117 adolescents aged 16-19 answer a questionnaire regarding which social media they are active on, how often they are active there, and what they post on those social medias. By also letting them evaluate how they see themselves, if they compare themselves with others and how motivated they are to physical activity and healthy eating habits, we could see that to those who post pictures, and are exposed to images represent exercise / health on social media have higher self-esteem and driven more by internal motivation to engage physical activity than those who do not.

The aim of this thesis was to examine how a coordinator at a social welfare project in support of job seekers, achieve results in his efforts to reduce the number of clients with social assistance. The method of data collection was a mixture of open thematic interviews and semi- structured interviews with open questions. The coordinator was interviewed four times during the length of the project. In addition, two of his clients were interviewed. The data also includes a report from the relevant social services and other documents such as newspaper articles.