The purpose of this study was to examine work related stressors and related coping strategies among case managers at a domestic violence shelter in the United States. We further wanted to examine whether locus of control among the participants could be related to work related stress and coping strategies. Qualitative interviews were performed with eight case managers to gain knowledge about the stressors and coping strategies they used by examining their thoughts, feelings and experiences. The result showed that the case managers experience a number of stressors in their work environment such as system problems (e.g., lack of re¬sources and time pressure) and emotional stress. Coping responses among the case managers included efforts to alter the problem, so called problem focused coping, efforts to control emo¬tions, so called emotions focused coping and social support from colleagues.

In today?s history teaching in Sweden, role-play and historical re-enactment receive littleattention. Even though many students find history as a subject boring and irrelevant, verylittle is done to improve the mode of teaching. My theses is that this could be done bypresenting new ways of teaching and at the same time find a way to make more studentsinterested in history. The main aim is to investigate if there are ways to offer students anexperience of history by carrying out different interactive exercises with a touch of roleplayand historical recreation.

Studier från Amerika och Storbritannien visar att introduktionsprocesser fokuserar för mycket påprocesser, policys och värderingar och mindre på de nyanställdas upplevelser när det gäller stress,stöd till att knyta kontakter med medarbetare och otydliga arbetsbeskrivningar (Andersson, N. R,Cunningham-Snell, N. A. & Haigh, J., 1996 & Klubnik, J. P., 1987).En kvalitativ undersökning har utförts på AniCura Falu Djursjukhus.

Huvudsyftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur förskolepedagogens arbetssituation har förändrats under dennes yrkesverksamma år. Vi ville även ta reda på vilka faktorer som påverkat stressen samt vilka konsekvenser det medfört.Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod för att få veta hur pedagogen ser på sin arbetssituation. Vi intervjuade tio pedagoger med ett fåtal enkla och tydliga frågor. På så vis fick vi personliga och utförliga svar från våra informanter. Vår teoretiska grund baseras på forskning inom stress och samhällsförändring.Resultatet av vår studie visar att alla pedagoger var nöjda med sitt yrkesval men inte med sin arbetssituation.

BakgrundTraditionell och komplementär eller alternativ medicin, vilket benämns Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM), är enligt WHO en viktig, men ofta underskattad del i nationella hälso- och sjukvårdssystem. Användandet av CAM har ökat signifikant senaste åren för gravida kvinnor. Inom CAM ryms begreppet ?mind-body interventioner? eller ?mind-body therapies? och innefattar behandling så som mindfulness, yoga, akupunktur, massage. Yoga och mindfulness har enligt tidigare studier positiv inverkan på graviditet och graviditetsutfall.

Stress är ett begrepp som har ökat i användning den senaste tiden och är en allvarlig psykisk och fysisk åkomma där sjuksköterskor är den yrkesgrupp som drabbas mest av ohälsa på arbetsplatsen. Arbetsrelaterad stress hos sjuksköterskan uppkommer av höga krav i kombination med bristande känsla av kontroll vilket kan orsaka en psykisk ohälsa som kan resultera i ångest och depression. Det påverkar sjuksköterskans prestationsförmåga som drabbar organisationen negativt då vårdskador och dödligheten hos patienter ökar. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva sjuksköterskans upplevelse av stress på arbetsplatsen relaterat till ohälsa. Studien baserades på 13 vetenskapliga artiklar som svarade mot syftet.

The purpose of this study was to, by using thematic analysis, investigate how psychologists experience and are affected by treating sexually assaulted individuals, if and how they use different coping strategies to maintain their own wellbeing and how they are affected by the organization. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight psychologists working in a clinic dedicated for patients with history of sexual assault. The analysis identified one general theme and four themes. The general theme Consciousness and active choices minted the other themes. Participants' awareness of their own and colleagues? health supplied conditions for inner reflection, which along with concern for potential negative effects resulted in active choices for mental health and work environment.

AimThe overall aim of this study has been to gain knowledge about what characterize upper secondary school students participating in the subject course physical education and health (PEH). To investigate this, the following questions are formulated:What motivates the students to attend PEH?How do the students experience teaching?What influences the students' opinions of the subject?MethodWe conducted a qualitative study using interview as method. Six students, from year 2; three girls and three boys, from different studying programs at an upper secondary school in the region of Mälardalen were interviewed. The students had been recommended and asked to participate by their teachers in PEH.

Bakgrund: Patients?kerhet ?r en central del av h?lso- och sjukv?rden och en viktig del av operationssjuksk?terskans yrkesroll. Stress i operationssalen ?r en betydande faktor som kan p?verka b?de individen och v?rdkvaliteten. Den kan fungera som en drivkraft men ?ven leda till utmattning och h?lsoproblem.

In the current situation there is not much written about assessment of laboratory work, and the majority of the working physics teachers are retiring and there are only a few newly qualified physics teachers. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how physics teachers assess laboratory work within upper secondary schools, with Gy2011 in mind. The new grade system, Gy2011, has a larger focus on the laboratory work then the earlier system Lpf 94. Skolverket has in their man-ual with examples of assessment two different sorts of laboratory experiments. The first assess-ment is regarding the planning of a laboratory work and the other about how able the pupil exe-cutes laboratory work.

Människan har alltid utsatts för stress men de utlösande stressfaktorerna har ändrats över tid. Stressreaktionerna är livsviktiga för oss, måttlig stress gör oss alerta medan långvarig stress kan leda till ohälsa. Arbetsmiljön kan vara en bidragande faktor till stressrelaterade problem och kan skapa svårigheter för sjuksköterskor att utföra sitt uppdrag. Upplevd obalans mellan förväntningar på sjuksköterskor och deras tillgång till tid kan ge en känsla av otillräcklighet och skapa stress hos sjuksköterskor. Detta kan i sin tur påverka vårdkvaliteten för patienterna och skapa lidande.

Syfte: Att undersöka om sjuksköterskor på en akutmottagning upplever stress och tidsbrist och hur de då anser att det påverkar deras välmående. Metod: Kvalitativ intervjustudie där tolv semistrukturerade intervjuer utfördes  med sjuksköterskor som arbetade på ett universitetssjukhus akutmottagning.Intervjuerna transkriberades och analyserades med latent innehållanalys enligt Graneheim och Lundmans modell samt Aaron Antonovskys hälsomodell. Resultat: Sjuksköterskorna var eniga om att stress och tidsbrist tillhörde vardagen i deras arbete. Stress kunde vara både negativt och positivt beroende på om den var kronisk eller akut. Den kroniska stressen ansåg sjusköterskorna påverka deras välmående negativt, medans den akuta stressen kunde ha god effekt på välmåendet. Sjuksköterskorna upplevde ett välmående vid positiv känsla av sammanhang (KASAM, hanterbarhet, meningsfullhet och begriplighet). Hanterbarhet fanns när de hade kontroll över situationen.

This essay examines the possibilities for the use of ICT for learning in the subject of history. By interviewing history teachers in upper secondary school about their experiences and thoughts regarding the subjects of learning, history and ICT, as well as the relations there between, based on Mishra and Koehlers TPACK model, I come to the conclusion that ICT may enhance learning in history. I also conclude that ICT may create new learning environments in history, where knowledge may or may not grow.The more unique ways of using ICT in history, compared to other school subjects, appears to be the possibility of using a variety of new sources, for example digitized primary sources from archives, that perhaps will motivate students, and make it possible to work from a con- structivistic point of view in history.Other unique possibilities are to satisfy the need of concretizing and visualizing the history being taught, by using a broad range of different media when presenting it. .

Today most ice rinks in Sweden use secondary refrigeration systems with a solution of calcium chloride and water as secondary refrigerant. Due to the large amount of energy such a system uses more efficient systems would be desired.An earlier study concluded in the possibilities of using carbon dioxide as secondary refrigerant with copper tubes as the loops in the ice rink. Since then 3 ice rink refrigeration systems has been built with carbon dioxide in copper tubes. Excluding the ones being direct involved in those projects there is still very little knowledge about how these system works. This study has been made primarily with the aim of adding to the knowledge concerning availability and cost and secondary to look at possibilities for improvement.A comparison between systems with carbon dioxide, calcium chloride respective ammonium solved in water has been made by using Decision Matrix.

Here is presented the result and discussion of a survey concerning the psychosocial environment in a school in the vicinity of Stockholm. The theoretical background of this study was the model of demand-control by Theorell, and various aspects of stress by Frankenhauser and Ödman. The survey was constituted of an inquiry form which was handed out to six different classes at the school. A total of 86 students filled in the form, and their answers were treated with standard statistical procedures to reveal the results. The inquiry form was made up by five parts; one that concerned the background of the respondent, one that reflected the psychosocial health and stress level and three parts that concerned discrimination, victimization and school democracy.