Bakgrund: Trots omfattande reformer inom psykiatrin och ambitioner om att erbjuda st?d i vardagen, visar forskning att ensamhet, brist p? meningsfulla aktiviteter och att begr?nsad sj?lvst?ndighet fortfarande ?r ett vanligt inslag i vardagen p? socialpsykiatriska boenden Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att unders?ka hur personal som arbetar p? ett socialpsykiatriboende beskriver ett idealiskt boende som fr?mjar aktivitet och delaktighet. Metod: Studien genomf?rdes med en kvalitativ ansats i form av tv? fokusgrupper med 4 respektive 5 deltagare vid tillf?llena. Materialet transkriberades, analyserades induktivt och kodades efter kondensering Resultat Det kom fram stor m?ngd konkreta f?rslag p? hur socialpsykiatriska boendemilj?er kan optimeras f?r att fr?mja aktivitet och delaktighet, sammanfattat i tre huvudkategorier: Fysiska utrymmen f?r aktivitet, Utbud av olika aktiviteter och personal som resurs p? olika s?tt.

AbstractSocial welfare workers employed in the same county base their assessments on the same laws, routines and guidelines, yet it seems that they sometimes come to different decisions. It's the discretion that enables the social workers to make individualized decisions adapted to each clients unique situation.The purpose of this paper is to examine social welfare workers reflections on discretion and what influences their discretion in the professional role.Six qualitative interviews were conducted with social welfare workers in three communitys i the middle of Sweden.The main result shows that it is primarily four factors that affect the social welfare workers discretion in the professional role :External factors such as other organizations change of regulations and cooperation with other organizations.Organizational factors such as routines, rules and guidelines .Professional factors such as the opportunity to use experience and professionalknowledge to determine which measure works in different situations.Individual factors like the workers ability for initiative and the clients individualcircumstances. Social welfare workers feel that they have a relatively wide discretion in their profession. They believe they have the ability to make individual evaluations of each client, however they also believe that their discretion often is limited by lack of time.Key words: social welfare workers, clients, discretion, assessments. .

Bakgrund: Kvinnor som lider av polycystiskt ovarialsyndrom (PCOS) upplever ofta utmaningar i sin v?rd och behandling p? grund av bristande kunskap och empati fr?n sjukv?rdspersonalen. Detta kan leda till sen diagnos och negativa upplevelser av v?rden. Syfte: Syftet med litteratur?versikten ?r att unders?ka hur kvinnor med PCOS upplever sjukv?rdpersonalens bem?tande. Metod: En litteratur?versikt genomf?rdes med fokus p? kvalitativa studier som unders?kte kvinnors upplevelser av v?rden vid PCOS. Data samlades in genom s?kningar i databaser och inkluderade tio relevanta artiklar som analyserades och kategoriserades enligt en systematisk metod. Huvudfynd: Resultaten visade att kvinnor med PCOS upplevde brist p? kunskap och empati hos sjukv?rdspersonalen, vilket ledde till sen diagnos och negativa upplevelser av v?rden. Vissa kvinnor k?nde sig v?l bem?tta och st?ttade av v?rden, medan andra upplevde bristande empati och k?nslom?ssig distans fr?n v?rdpersonalen. Slutsatser: Studien pekar p? behovet av f?rb?ttrings?tg?rder inom h?lso- och sjukv?rden f?r att ?ka kunskapen om PCOS bland sjukv?rdspersonal och f?rb?ttra bem?tandet av patienter med denna sjukdom.

Syfte: Studien syftar till att undersöka rektorers och lÀrares uppfattningar om hur en institutionsskola för elever med rörelsehinder och en kommunal skolas vÀrld gestaltar sig i nulÀget med tanke pÄ delaktighet, samarbete och gemenskap i en för dem gemensam skola samt vilka framtidsvisioner som finns.Problemformulering:? Hur möts de bÄda vÀrldarna i nulÀget i det praktiska vardagsarbetet?? Vilka framtidsvisioner finns?TeorianknytningExamensarbetet knyter an till det kategoriska och till relationella perspektivet som framstÀllts av Persson (2003). I det kategoriska perspektivet utgÄr man frÄn de konsekvenser, som följer efter det att det skett en diagnosticering grundad pÄ en medicinpsykologisk modell som lÀgger fokus pÄ avvikel-serna hos elever. I det relationella perspektivet förutsÀtts att de förÀndringar och anpassningar som görs i miljön genomförs efter faktumet att individerna Àr olika, beror snarare pÄ en systemförÀndring Àn en individförÀndring. Metod: En kvalitativ fallstudie valdes och metoden för arbetet var semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra rektorer och sex lÀrare.Resultat: I undersökningen framkom att rektorernas syn pÄ nulÀget för de bÄda skolformerna inte Àr samstÀmmiga nÀr de gÀller verksamhetsfrÄgor.

This paper examines the consequences of membership and participation in immigrant associations on individual immigrants? political integration and indirect political participation with reference to Swedish society. The theoretical underpinnings consist of a social structural outlook on social capital, combined with the Civic Voluntarism Model, both of which focus on the potential role of social networks for moving people into political action. After a presentation of parallel qualitative data over the experiences of individual members in a Finnish and Bosnian-Hercegovinian organisation, it is suggested that immigrant associations support the political integration of their members into the host society. Firstly, the case studies indicate that members of immigrant associations gain the opportunity to augment their civic skills, which is a significant prerequisite for political participation.

Syftet med vÄrt arbete har varit att undersöka vad lÀrare har för uppfattningar om att integrera matematiken i sin tematiska undervisning. Vi har ocksÄ studerat om det finns nÄgra samband mellan lÀrares uppfattningar om matematik och deras anvÀndning av matematik i tematisk undervisning. Vi har gjort kvalitativa intervjuer med sju matematiklÀrare som i olika utstrÀckning arbetar tematiskt. LÀrarna arbetar i Ärskurs fyra och fem. Resultatet i vÄr undersökning visar att lÀrarens uppfattningar om matematik och hur matematikundervisningen ska gÄ till spelar roll för i vilken utstrÀckning och hur de integrerar matematiken i sin tematiska undervisning..

The aim of this study was to examine how newly qualified social workers from Linnaeus University in Kalmar feel that the school has prepared them with the professional skills to meet the demands that exist within social work. Social work education is a generalist training that will result in a professional qualification. With a qualitative approach eight newly qualified social workers were interviewed.We used the sociology of knowledge as an overall theoretical approach. We also used experience- based knowledge as a theoretical approach. One of the study's conclusion was that the graduates had difficulty linking theory to practice.

SÀvar bibliotek ska införa meröppet, och denna studie har undersökt hur man bör gÄ tillvÀga. Intervjuer utfördes via telefon och e-mail till andra meröppna bibliotek, och en fokusgrupp utfördes med besökare och personal vid SÀvar bibliotek. Vi undersökte Àven relevant litteratur för att hitta hur sjÀlva miljön i biblioteket ska se ut. Vi kom fram till att det Àr viktigt att information om förÀndringarna kommer ut till besökarna. Det Àr ocksÄ viktigt att biblioteket ska vara en social miljö, sÄ det Àr viktigt att arrangera det sÄ att det uppmuntrar till social interaktion..

Title: The role of social media on today?s markets ? Companies? desire to understand theircustomersAuthors: Kristoffer Avci-NĂ„mark & Patrik WidlundBackground: The markets of today are characterized by dynamic conditions because of thecontinuous change in consumer preference. Due to this, the interaction between the company and its consumers is gaining importance as companies find the need to increase their knowledge about the market. Out of this need social media has emerged as a tool forcompanies to improve their communication with customers. The popularity of social media isincreasing at a rapid rate and sites such as Facebook now has around 500 million usersworldwide.

With this research we aim to examine foster parents and social workers perceptions about the relationship between foster parents and the foster child?s biological parents and their perceptions about the support to the foster parents in the contact with the child?s biological parents. The research will provide a deeper understanding of the actors? perceptions and explain possible differences in their opinions. This study has a qualitative approach and contains eight semi-structured interviews with foster parents and social workers in a smaller town in the south of Sweden.

Uppsatsens övergripande syfte var att undersöka profiler av samsjuklighet mellan depressiva symtom och olika undergrupper av social Ängest hos unga vuxna (20-24 Är) samt dess samband med livstillfredsstÀllelse och upplevd social funktionsnedsÀttning inom yrkesliv/studier respektive sociala aktiviteter. Data har inhÀmtats via sjÀlvskattningsformulÀr. Resultaten analyserades genom en klusteranalys. TvÄ profiler med samsjuklighet mellan undergrupper av social Ängest och depressiva symtom framkom. Denna samsjuklighet verkar vara relaterad till bÄde en lÀgre grad av upplevd livstillfredsstÀllelse samt till funktionsnedsÀttning inom tvÄ domÀner, yrkesliv/studier och sociala aktiviteter..

According to the Conventions on the Rights of the Child, children have the right to make their voices heard and express their opinion in situations concerning them. With this paper the authors have chosen to explore social worker?s view?s on children?s participation and influence, and how these are manifested through the entire case process. The focus in this study has also been the positive and negative effects the children?s influence may have.To investigate this, a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews has been conducted.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how pupils with social dysfunction were defined and described and how the responsibility of the school concerning the needs of these pupils was apprehended. For this matter, in depth interviews with four headmasters and four teachers at three different schools were carried out.The possibilities to help pupils with social dysfunction were regarded as limited due to limited resources. The school can be described, as a huge refined apparatus of classification where some children very early are eliminated and there does not appear to exist any back up plan for these individuals. In this respect the function of the school is very similar to that of yesterdays school where the elimination process worked just as well, the denotations change but the problems remain the same.The material used in this study is too small to make general conclusions but the results give some indication of the problems of the interaction between the school and its staff and pupils with social dysfunction. We strongly believe that the results warrants further investigation as to in what way the school can improve in helping pupils with social dysfunction..

The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate the social identity of students at upper secondary school for physically disabled students. The youths I drew my attention to suffered from severe physical disabilities and therefore received specially adapted education in small classes, but integrated at an ordinary upper secondary school.By "social identity" I mean how the students view themselves as a group, how they value their membership of the group and how they relate to non-disabled students at school. I wanted to investigate the connections between these students' social identity and the problems of marginalization of disabled people in society.According to qualitative methods I interviewed five physically disabled students, aged 18-19, at upper secondary school level taking part of especially adapted education. The study showed that these students regarded themselves as a segregated group at school. None of them associated with non-disabled students at school.

Organizations over the world increasingly start to realize the possibilities of the use of a social intranet, also known as Enterprise 2.0. The social intranets can be used to collaborate and communicate with colleagues in the workplace. Both Cook (2008) and Coope (Barnett, 2011) say that Enterprise 2.0 is about to fundamentally change the way organizations communicate. But do companies know how these tools can be used?The study emanates from three questions:How can social intranets be used in business?How can internal communication and collaboration get easier through the use of a social intranet?What are the possible risks with the use of social intranets?In this study we have in a qualitative manner been interviewing two companies that currently use social intranets in their daily activities ? Securitas and SkÄneme-jerier.