The purpose of this study was to examine how some social workers in Sweden describe the social work with unaccompanied children. Emphasis was on the role of culture in social work with the unaccompanied children. I wanted to examine how the social workers describe their view on social work with unaccompanied. I also wanted to examine how the social workers describe their view at their own and the unaccompanied children?s cultural backgrounds influence on the social work with the unaccompanied.

The current research examined whether motives, traditional mass media consumption and individual differences (social activity and political interest) predicted the use of social media among a group of university students in China. In coherence with Uses and Gratifications assumptions the study found that the factors differentially predicted the extent of media use. Information seeking, social interaction and affinity were the main reasons for using social media. There was a negative correlation between television viewing and use of social media, in addition to a negative correlation between information seeking and use of the media. Results further suggest that social media are used to enhance social capital, since student?s being socially active offline, tend to use the media to a greater extent than those less active..

Den här uppsatsen syftar till att ta reda på om det finns något samband mellan social kompetens och stress. I uppsatsen presenteras vad social kompetens är och vad stress är. Sambandet har undersökts med hjälp av enkät med 16 slutna frågor, 8 som handlar om social kompetens och 8 som handlar om stress och en öppen fråga på slutet. Urvalet, som var ett bekvämlighetsurval, var 60 anställda på olika arbetsplatser i Karlskrona, av dem erhölls 52 svar. Med hjälp av en Pearsonkorrelation och en fenomenologisk analys visade det sig att det finns ett samband mellan social kompetens och stress..

SAMMANFATTNINGBakgrund: Fo?r att patientsa?kerheten ska kunna garanteras vid en utskrivning fra?n slutenva?rden till kommunen a?r det viktigt att ra?tt information ges mellan instanserna. Det finns dock problem med kommunikationen vilket kan fa? olyckliga konsekvenser.Syfte: Att beskriva en patients utskrivning, fra?n slutenva?rd till kommunal omsorg, ur kommunsjuksko?terskors perspektiv.Metod: En kvalitativ metod med en explorativ design har anva?nts fo?r att besvara studiens syfte. Grundutbildande och specialistutbildade sjuksko?terskor fra?n fyra olika kommuner intervjuades till studien.

In this essay I consider a self-experienced dilemma, and review how I, as a preschool teacher, treat a child with special needs. With the support of literature and theory, I can, with an essay writing approach, reflect and analyze the dilemma. In this way I will examine my practical knowledge and personal experiences of a complex situation. I want to examine whether children with special needs who are included in regular preschool activities, really get the support they need and deserve. Do educators have the conditions and does preschool have sufficient resources to realize this? Do educators have sufficient knowledge of how children with special needs should be responded to? I want to find out how the included children's social development and self-image is shaped by the treatment they receive at the preschool.

The aim of this study was to look at introduction for staff in a social service office and the social workers experience off the first period at a new workplace. Qualitative interviews have been used as a method of investigating how social workers look at introduction in the workplace and how social workers have experience the first period at the workplace. The empirical material have been analysed by using the theory of Human Service Organizations, street-lever bureaucracy theory and theory concerning work environment. This papers first chapter presents the methodological preferences, the second chapter the theoretical perspective and the results of the study are presented in the third chapter followed by a discussion and ending comments in chapter four. My study showed that introduction is necessary in a complex organisation and could be a way to improve the social workers situation in social service organisations..

I detta arbete rapporteras hur vanligt det är att gymnasieelever har social fobi. Utöver detta beskrivs även den hjälp elever med social fobi erbjuds i skolan samt hur lärare bemöter dessa elever. För formulering och utvärdering av enkäterna har den inom psykiatrin använda definitionen av social fobi, DSM-IV, använts. Andelen gymnasieelever med social fobi uppskattas till 16,5 %. Utöver dessa elever med social fobi känner drygt 20 % oro och obehag vid sociala situationer utan att uppnå kriteriet för social fobi.

SAMMANFATTNING     Författare: Srea Karim   Sociala omsorgsprogrammet, Uppsala universitet   Titel: En kvalitativ studie om hemtjänstpersonalens föreställningar kring åldrande och     äldreomsorg Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera föreställningar som personalen inom hemtjänsten innehar kring åldrande och äldreomsorg utifrån en kvalitativ studie.  I Studien tar jag även upp om vad äldreomsorg innebär för personalen, hur personalens syn på åldrande påverkar deras arbete samt om personalen tillhandahåller den vård och omsorg som de själva skulle vilja ha. Jag har använt det fenomenologiska perspektivet då jag analyserat mina intervjuer jag genomförde med mina informanter, för att kunna få en bättre förståelse för deras tankar, upplevelser men även deras erfarenheter. De teoretiska perspektiv jag valt att behandla i min uppsats är rollteorin, disengagemangsteorin. I min uppsats har jag gått tillväga på så sätt att jag intervjuat fem informanter inom en hemtjänst i Uppsala, som tillhör Uppsala kommun. De resultat jag kommit fram till utifrån mina fem informanter som jag intervjuade i hemtjänsten, stämde till en stor del överens med det som jag tar upp i tidigare forskning, där informanterna menar att tidsbrist förekommer i deras arbete, och att omsorg innebär att bry sig om vilket kan motsvara det som jag tar upp i tidigare forskning där Astvik & Aronsson genomförde 1994 ( Astvik, 2003 : 1- 2) en studie om vårdbiträdens värderingar kring sitt arbete, där arbetets positiva synpunkter handlade om att få kunna hjälpa människor och göra ett gott arbete. Resultatet visar att personalen i många av de teman jag utgick ifrån pekar på att det finns faktorer där man finner gemensamma åsikter som informanterna har. Bland annat menar informanterna att det finns brister som berör både tiden såväl som personal.  Vidare säger informanterna att samarbetet är bra, men att det ibland kan förekomma konflikter. Många av informanterna påpekar om ensamheten och menar att det kan drabba en när man blir äldre. Personlig utveckling innebär att jobba med människor, och på det sättet ger det en erfarenhet säger en av informanterna, medan en annan anser att flexibilitet är en viktig egenskap, en annan talar om delaktighet.

In the age group 16-25 years, the Internet is the most powerful source of information. This age group is also the main user of social media. The purpose of this study was to investigate young people's experience of social media and any associations between social media and adolescents health by answering the questions: ?how does young people use social media?, ?what risks can occur in young people's use of social media? and ?how can social media influence young people's lifestyles?. The survey was conducted by a quantitative cross-sectional study using questionnaires.

This study examines the connection between social capital and involvement within voluntary associations; involvement is defined either as being a member in an association or a member who has some kind of assignment in an association. The study also examines if there is a difference between two social economic groups regarding the attainment and transformation of social capital through being involved in a voluntary association.Social capital is defined as social trust and the willingness of collective action.The result of the research shows there is a slight connection between the involvement in voluntary associations and social capital. It shows that people who are members of a voluntary association often have higher social capital than those who are not members of any voluntary association at all. The study also shows that there is a difference in attainment of social capital between those who have some kind of assignment in a voluntary association and general members.When studying social capital and involvement in voluntary associations it is also of interest to take social class into the analysis, because the study shows that people with a lower education had increased social capital when they were members in an association compared to the members with a higher education..

The purpose of our study is to describe and understand whether, and if so, how social workers in school and in social services construct computer gaming adolescents as a social problem. We chose social workers who encounter adolescents with different problems. We have conducted qualitative interviews with vignettes to capture the social workers' reasoning about computer gaming adolescents and how they handle this in their work. The study shows that all social workers we interviewed had encountered adolescents with troubling computer gaming habits. In the study, all agree that computer gaming becomes a problem when it leads to deviant behaviour such as not going to school, staying up all night and so on.

HOW DO SOCIAL WORKERS WORK WITH PROSTITUTION? A case study on social work in the work with prostitution and perspectives on the sex purchase law from social workers. PERNILLA ELOFSSON MARIA AHLQVIST Elofsson, P. & Ahlqvist, M. How do social workers work with prostitution? A case study on social work in the work with prostitution and perspectives on the sex purchase law from social workers.

Syftet med studien var att beskriva vilken betydelse personalen upplever att ett bra bemötande och en bra boendemiljö har för personer med demens. Vi har valt att intervjua omsorgspersonal som arbetar med personer med demens på ett demensboende. Studien utgick ifrån ett personalperspektiv och beskrev vilken betydelse personalen upplever att bemötandet och boendemiljön har för personer med demens. Metoden som använts har en kvalitativ ansatts där det gjordes intervjuer av sex personal. I analysen av studien framkommer det att bemötandet har större betydelse än vad boendemiljön har för att kunna bedriva en god omsorg om personer med demens.

The aim of this study is to examine social workers' and social work students' attitudes towards people living with hiv in Sweden. I will also examine if there is a connection between knowledge and attitudes. The questions at issue are how social workers' and social work students' attitudes can assume to influence on their professional practice and what causes can affect their attitudes towards people living with hiv. The study is based on a qualitative method. The methods have been: conversational interviews with five social workers, who work with family issues and integration, and a focused group interview with four social work students.

The aim of this study was to understand the contact between foster homes and social workers, by doing a comparison of the social workers and the foster homes experiences of the cooperation that is between them. We started from three main questions to get an answer to our aim, how the foster homes and the social workers experience the organization of the foster care in the Social Service as an impact of the cooperation, what does the foster homes and the social workers experience as a important fact of a successful placement and finally, how does the foster homes and the social workers experience the supporting and controlling contact that is between them. To get our results we based our study on interviews whit four foster homes and whit four social workers. The analysis was based on one theoretical perspective, Skaus (2007) analytical approach for power and help. As a conclusion we have found out, that the organization of the Social Service has significance for the contact between social workers and foster homes.