The study aims to gain insight into how social workers perceive their psychosocial work environment and examine whether this effects the performance of their duties. The study mainly addresses the shortcomings of the psychosocial work environment of Social Services and the implications it entails for social workers health and wellbeing. The psychosocial work environment includes physical and psychological factors therefore the study's interpretive framework consists of organizational theoretical and social psychological concepts and previous research on the subject. We examined the organizational and social psychological connections to social workers perception of their work environment with a qualitative approach. The empirical data was collected through interviews with four social workers in a municipality in central Sweden using a semi-structured interview guide.

The purpose of doing this research except for educational reasons is to show significant effects that make motivational work successful. The choice of subject we decided out of experience from the term of practise. The description of the subject is from the social workers angle of approach. The method we used is a qualitative study with semi structured interviews. We have looked at three different fields of social work from the view of six social workers, two from each field.

Research about social support and social networks has mostly concerned the impact on a person?s wellbeing and health. However an aspect largely neglected is how social support within the social networks can affect the process of giving up a drug abuse. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of what role the social support within different relationships can have on the process of giving up drug abuse. Furthermore the aim is to examine how a self-help group can provide social support in the transitional period after leaving a drug abuse.

Syftet med denna studie är att utifrån professionellas perspektiv få en ökad kunskap och förståelse för den ökande andelen av elever som skrivs in i särskolan. Huvudfrågan som denna studie försöker belysa är: Vilka faktorer ligger bakom elevökningen i särskolan? För att uppnå mitt syfte kommer jag fokusera på de följande frågeställningar: Vad innebär elever i behov av särskilt stöd? Vilka är kriterierna för rätt till särskoleundervisning? För att kunna ge svar på mina frågor tillämpade jag en kvalitativ metod, där utförde jag intervjuer med olika yrkesgrupper som jobbar med dessa elever. Resultaten av studien analyserades med hjälp av teorier om socialkonstruktivism och Social kategorisering. Analysresultaten visade att det finns olika orsaker till elevökningen i särskolan.

Syftet med denna studie är att utifrån professionellas perspektiv få en ökad kunskap och förståelse för den ökande andelen av elever som skrivs in i särskolan. Huvudfrågan som denna studie försöker belysa är: Vilka faktorer ligger bakom elevökningen i särskolan? För att uppnå mitt syfte kommer jag fokusera på de följande frågeställningar: Vad innebär elever i behov av särskilt stöd? Vilka är kriterierna för rätt till särskoleundervisning? För att kunna ge svar på mina frågor tillämpade jag en kvalitativ metod, där utförde jag intervjuer med olika yrkesgrupper som jobbar med dessa elever. Resultaten av studien analyserades med hjälp av teorier om socialkonstruktivism och Social kategorisering. Analysresultaten visade att det finns olika orsaker till elevökningen i särskolan.

This is a qualitative study of how some journalists on the Swedish national media are using social media in news work. The study, carried out by using interviews, also covers how these journalists' work is influenced by social media. For the journalists in the study social media has become a tool to do research, get news ideas and find interviewees. At the same time social media affects the work of the journalists, as the social media increases the speed of news and flow of information. Even though they involve some challenges, social media facilitates news work and the journalists in this study have a positive attitude towards the phenomenon.Keywords: Social media, news journalism, the national media..

The purpose of this study was to examine social workers apprehensions about institutional placement of youths and what determines when these proceedings are used. When research not always shows that institutional placements lead to positive changes for youngsters, we wondered how social workers act on their assessment to institutional placement. We wanted to find out if the social workers meet any dilemmas along the way. To find out about that we used qualitative interviews with ten social workers, who worked in social service and came from different places in the southern parts of Sweden. To analyze our material we used the theory of human service organization and street-level bureaucrats work situation.

This study focuses on the use of animals in social work from the perspective of social workers. The purpose of this study is to examine social workers? experiences of animal assisted social work and how social workers view the integration of animals in various fields of social work. The research is based on a qualitative method and four semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers. The theories incorporated in the study are Attachment Theory and Sense of Coherence (SOC).The following results are presented: Social workers are considered to have a more comprehensive understanding of clients compared to their associates who do not hold a degree in Social Work.

BakgrundVilken verksamhet som en kommun ska bedriva bestäms i stor utsträckning av lagar och regler, vilket gör det svårt att anpassa verksamheten och styrningen av den efter förutsättningar i omgivningen och inom verksamheten. Inom den kommunala organisationen finns såväl vad som i folkmun kallas för ?hårda? verksamheter, exempelvis parkskötsel och gatubyggnation, som ?mjuka? verksamheter, så som skola och omsorg. I den befintliga litteraturen saknades en genomgång av vad begreppen hårt och mjukt innebär och hur detta påverkar styrningen av en verksamhet. Därför behövdes först en kategorisering av begreppen göras för att sedan kunna relateras till teorier om lämpliga styrtyper givet olika förutsättningar.SyfteSyftet med uppsatsen är att beskriva och analysera hur hårda och mjuka verksamheter inom en kommun styrs och hur de bör styras.

The aim of this study is to understand the collaboration at a child investigation and the actions that may be encountered as a result of the investigation, based on the Social Secretaries experiences of collaboration with other agencies such as schools, police, health visitor and child psychiatry. In the study, eight social workers from different municipalities was interviewed at a total of six occasions. One of the occasions was a group interview with three social workers at the same time. Through the interviews, it appears that the collaboration has an important role in social work and the necessity is something that manifests itself in the social secretaries stories but also in the earlier research done in this area. The results show that social workers extensively want to interact but that the purpose of interaction varies depending on the nature of the matter.

This study focuses on the use of animals in social work from the perspective of social workers. The purpose of this study is to examine social workers? experiences of animal assisted social work and how social workers view the integration of animals in various fields of social work. The research is based on a qualitative method and four semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers. The theories incorporated in the study are Attachment Theory and Sense of Coherence (SOC).The following results are presented: Social workers are considered to have a more comprehensive understanding of clients compared to their associates who do not hold a degree in Social Work.

Our purpose with this study was to look at the connection between social capital and integration. Particularly if meetings between people from different cultures can increase social capital and in that way affect integration. We start by identifying the social integration perspective we are going to use through out the study and then we introduce social capital theory as a way of narrowing down the field even more. The study was done through six semi structured interviews. We interviewed three women that was established in the Swedish society and three women that had immigration background.

The purpose is to examine social workers view of vulnerable children and their needs. We are also interested to know how social workers think and discuss concerning the help these children are given. Our main questions in our study are; How do social workers define vulnerable children? Which needs do vulnerable children have according to social workers? Which opportunities and difficulties might there be in the decision making when trying to help these children? Which public authorities do social workers cooperate with? Which opportunities and difficulties do social workers find in the cooperation?This study is based upon interviews with ten social workers in the social childcare division in different municipalities in Skåne region, Sweden. Our results are explained and analyzed with a qualitative approach through different aspects of power- and Human Service Organization theories.

Social media has become an important marketing and communication tool worldwide, mostly through the largest social platforms Facebook and Twitter. With two-way communication via Internet companies has gotten the opportunity to interact and communicate directly with their customers. Facebook has been the focus point through the study because it has shown to be the most efficient and frequently used platform for communication. Our study aimed to confirm how communication via social media actually looks like. To be able to reach the best results, we have conducted the study from a phenomenological approach, which means; usage of qualitative semi-structured interviews to reflect the respondents experience on the phenomenon social media as a communication tool. Social media has shown to be a great way of communicating externally for companies who are willing to spend time engaging in the platform.

Social enterprises make up one of the groups of participants that provide welfare services financed by public funding. The object of this study is to describe and analyze from a theoretical point of view which conditions, in what fields, by which division of responsibility and finally through what decisions these social enterprises are allocated a place in the market for social welfare services. The company that has been the object of study offers services in the field of social welfare and in employment. In the study a triangulation of qualitative methods has been used: studies of literature on the subject, recurrent interviews and observations and also reviews of documents. The results have been analyzed from theories on the space available on the market for social services, on social economy and on social capital in the form of strong, weak and bridging bonds.