Social housing in Northern Europe and the importance of social and political consideration in planning. Focus of the essay lies on the "burning suburbs" of France, based on literature studies combined with a study visit to Les Minguettes outside of Lyon..

CI-metoden är en ny behandlingsmetod för barn och ungdomar med CP-hemiplegi. Metoden innebr att man genom en restrikion på den intakta armen och handen främjar rörelse i den hemiplegiska armen oc handen i syfte att förbättra användningen av den armen och handen i dagliga aktiviteter.Syftet med litteraturstudien är att beskriva CI-metoden och dess effekter på funktions- och aktivitetsförmåga hos barn och ungdomar med CP-hemiplegi.För att få svar på studiens syfte och frågeställningar gjordes en systematisk litteraturstudie som baseras på vetenskapliga artiklar om effekter av behandling med CI-metoden på barn och ungdomar med hemiplegi till följd av en CP-skada. Studien baseras på sammanlagt 12 artiklar, varav 11 studier från åren 2001-2006 och en studie från 1997. Artiklara är sökta i AMED, Cinahl samt Medline.Resultatet visar att barnen och ungdomarna genom behandling med CI-metoden gjorde förbättringar i både funktions- och aktivitetsförmåga. Många av de förbättringar som gjorts under behandlingen kvarstod även vid uppföljningen, fyra veckor till sex månader senare.

Många äldre patienter i eget boende upplever behov av sjukgymnast och arbetsterapeut, både praktiskt och teoretiskt, vid rehabilitering av förlorad eller nedsatt funktions- och aktivitetsförmåga. Kommunal hemsjukvård erbjuder hemrehabilitering med sjukgymnast och arbetsterapeut. För att kunna tillgodose behovet behöver rehabiliteringspersonalen veta hur det kan uppfattas att vara aktivt delaktig i hemrehabilitering. Detta för att bemöta patientens behov på ett optimalt sätt och möjliggöra för välbefinnande och eventuellt en bättre livskvalitet. Studien är en intervjuundersökning av sju patienter i ålder mellan 77 till 89 år som deltagit i hemrehabilitering tillsammans med sjukgymnast och arbetsterapeut.

Bakgrund: Varje år drabbas ca 30 000 personer i Sverige av stroke och idag anses det vara en folksjukdom. Strokerehabilitering är en vanlig arena för arbetsterapeuter. I arbetsterapeutens uppdrag ingår motivationsarbete för att leda patienten genom rehabiliteringen. Motivation är en individs inre drivkraft och en förutsättning för en framgångsrik rehabilitering. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att beskriva arbetsterapeuters arbete med motivation inom strokerehabilitering.

Många drabbas av social ångest. Vikt och kroppsuppfattning relaterar till social ångest men sambandet behöver tydliggöras. Syftet med studien var att se hur mycket av variationen i social ångest över tid som kan förklaras av vikt-, och kroppsrelaterade mått, samt undersöka könsskillnader. Studien var longitudinell och baserades på en enkätundersökning vid två insamlingstillfällen med ett års mellanrum (N=361). Resultatet visade att upplevd övervikt, felaktigt upplevd övervikt, kön och kroppsnöjdhet tillsammans förklarade 7 % av variationen i social ångest över tid.

Earlier studies and research on the subject of perception and social media during the working process resulted in a change of the problem. At first the focus of the study was to examine how social media affects the perception of a brand although later on the problem had to be developed to instead examine if social media reflects the perception of a brand. The purpose of this study is to figure out if social media reflects consumer?s perception of a brand. This will contribute to company?s knowledge on how important social media is in their branding and will give pointers on how many resources that is necessary to spend on branding in social media.

Ett av arbetsterapeutens verksamhetsområden är psykiatrin, där klienterna har olika psykiska funktionshinder. Arbetsterapeutens uppgift är att med olika medel få klienterna till att utföra aktiviteter. Syftet med studien var att undersöka arbetsterapeuters arbete med motivation i relation till personer med psykiska funktionshinder och hur detta möjliggör aktivitet. Fyra arbetsterapeuter deltog i studien. Fokusgrupp användes som metod, där interaktion och diskussion undersökningspersonerna emellan beaktas.

Unemployment and long term unemployment is a reality for a large number of people in Sweden. This may be the result of structural changes in the labor market, but involves a wide range of issues. Along with other actors, the social services are obliged to support the long term unemployed to find a job. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the work done by social workers towards the long term unemployed, 25-49 years old, in two municipalities. We performed altogether six qualitative interviews.

The purpose with this essay is to take part of the process when a family is placed on the family-institution, Trollbacken. We want to know what makes the social welfare secretaries place a family in institutional care. Has Trollbacken lived up to the social welfare secretary expectations and are the social welfare secretaries following Trollbackens recommendation regarding the follow up treatment. We also want to know to what value the social welfare secretary assigns Trollbackens investigation and are they able to see changes in the family due to the placing on Trollbacken. The method is qualitative and is based on interviews from six social welfare secretaries that work around and in West Sweden.

The purpose with our essay was to increase our knowledge about what social workers, with experience from working with drug addicts, perceive as the explanations to a person stopping the abuse and succeed in staying drug free. Our framing of the question was:- How do social workers define the term drug free?- How big a roll do the social worker believes she/he has in the process in which a person stops abusing drugs?- How do the social worker work with a person towards getting that person drug free?- What do the social worker believe to be the reason why a person stops abusing drugs?- What do the social worker perceive as helpful for a person to stay drug free?We did qualitative interviews with six social workers. Our main conclusion was that it is difficult to define the term drug free. The reason for stropping the drug abuse can vary, it can be the family situation, "hitting rock bottom", finding love or tiring.

This paper examines how recruiters use social media during their recruitment process. The paper focuses on the staffing industry and will further examine how recruiters are handling jobseekers personal privacy when they are using social media in a recruitment process. The paper are trying to understand the meaning of what personal integrity means and how or if recruiters show consideration to this in a recruitment process when they are using social media as a recruitment tool. Our result demonstrates that, today recruiters use social media daily to conduct background checks on job applicants. There are no clear instructions and rules on how recruiters should handle background checks through social media. Recruiters believe that job seekers are responsible for the information contained on the their social media.

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This essay deals with the same task that utilitarians have tried to solve for a long time, what is happiness? In the eighteenth-century utilitarians suggested that happiness should be the base for social political decisions. But the lack of definition disposed so that GDP became the measurement of happiness, which proved to be wrong when the unhappiness continued to increase. More than two hundred years later scientists came up with a new definition of happiness and new ways to measure it. And during the last decade economists have taken the discussion to a higher level.So once again we?re dealing with the same old issue, if happiness ought to be the base of social political decisions.

The purpose with our essay was to examine which clients/patients get treatment for alcohol problems from either health care units or social service units. We also wanted to find out how staff in these units considers the importance of social background in the assessment of treatment. The questions we have focused are: How do the clients/patients get in contact with the units? How does staff in these units consider the importance of social background in the assessment of treatment? How is the social background like for the present clients/patients? To fulfil the purpose with our investigation and to get answers to our questions, we performed an explorative examination and applied a qualitative method in the form of a semi-structured interview with six persons. The investigation showed that clients/patients get in contact with the units by looking for treatment by themselves or by relatives and other organisations.

People recieving social assistance is today very common in Swedish society. Of those receiving social assistance single mothers is one ofthe largest groups. The purpose of this study is to examine how single mothers with social assistance experience themselves to be treated by social services, how this treatment affects their confidence in the social services and how they experience it is to live with social assistance. To answer the question, we use qualitative interviews with three clients. Previous research has shown that single mothers receiving social assistance experience vulnerability, and how they perceive it is affected by how they are treated by their social secretaries.