The overall aim was to examine how the public interest to protect children from violence and sexual abuse at home, is realized by social workers. The study´s central focus was the risk assessments as Social services are obliged to do when they receive a report containing concern that children are being exposed to violence or sexual abuse at home. The study addresses the following questions:o How do social workers go about practically, and what support and knowledge is being used to determine whether the Social services need to intervene for the protection of a child?o What risk and protective factors are taken into account by social workers in the assessment process?o What contextual factors do social workers experience are affecting them in the assessment process?o Which support does the documentation system BBIC provide in the assessment process?The study material was collected through qualitative group interviews, with a modified vignette methodology as tools. The study included a total of twelve social workers, with varying numbers in each interview group.

Stress kan beskrivas som en brist på balans mellan de krav som ställs på oss och vår förmåga att handskas med dem. När stress blir långvarig och utdragen blir det till slut en bestående obalans mellan kroppens nedbrytande och uppbyggande funktioner. Det finns rapporter från de senaste tio åren som visar att sjuksköterskor upplever de högsta nivåerna av yrkesrelaterad stress inom hälso- och sjukvård. Det kan uppstå skadliga reaktioner i kroppen och påverkan kan uppkomma både psykiskt, fysiskt och socialt i till exempel omvårdnadsarbetet eller i organisationen. Det gör att sjuksköterskor sätter sin fysiska och psykiska hälsa på spel.

This study aims to examine how social workers, in the Swedish social services, perceive and interpret LVU § 3 from a gender perspective. In total eight social workers participated in the study, attending interviews based on a vignette. From a gender perspective we wanted to found out how the social workers define "other socially destructive behaviour" and understand their thoughts about this subject. Moreover, we aimed to see if social workers perceive any differences between boys and girls behaviour. Based on several theories, two gender theories and concepts we have analysed our result from the interviews.

The aim of this study was to describe how nurses cope with their daily stress at work. A literature review was made to answer the research question, data was gathered from two databases; Academic Search Elite and Medline (via Pubmed). The result which was based on 20 scientific articles showed that nurses used problem-focused and emotional-focused coping strategies to deal with the stress at work. Most of the nurses used emotional-focused coping strategies by practise some kind of physical activities, avoid and take distance from the problem. Using these strategies was negative correlated with burnout and psychological health.

Stress i vården är ett aktuellt problem och innebär en ökad risk för psykisk och fysisk ohälsa hos omvårdnadspersonalen. Patientsäkerheten och patienternas upplevelser av vården blir lidande när förekomsten av stress hos personalen är hög. Många studier om stress i sjukvården har genomförts, samtidigt som en ökad frekvens av sjukskrivningar hos sjukvårdspersonalen ses. Syftet med denna studie var därför att sammanställa kunskap om faktorer som har betydelse för att reducera stress hos omvårdnadspersonalen. Studien genomfördes som en integrerad litteraturöversikt där aktuell forskning söktes i fem databaser, detta kompletterades med manuell sökning.

This study examines how the local rescue services relate to the brand of the rescue service and the concept of brand management. To understand the attitudes against the brand and brand management, empirical data, theoretical modelling of brand and current laws have been discussed together in a try to get an overview how the rescue services practically works with the brand. The study results are based on a questionnaire survey and qualitative semi-structured interviews. The survey was sent to employees working with the communication of the rescue service. The interviews were held with two employees working with the communication of the rescue service and two fire chiefs.

The aim of the study is to investigate how social workers relate to the self-determination in cases that involve people who have dementia. To investigate this we have chosen to build a qualitative study. The study is based on four interviews with social workers in elderly care in Sweden. To analyze our material we chose the concept autonomy, and legal texts from the Social Services Act (SFS 2001: 453) and Parental code (SFS 1949: 381). Our results show that social workers are often forced to deviate from the law and guidelines to ensure the best for the person with dementia.

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore which inner conceptions about the abused older women the professional social workers had and how they experienced the enconter of an abused old woman in an intimate partner relation. The theoretical background is social construction by Berger and Luckmann. This theory was uset to analyze the transcribed interviews. This study is based on nine interviews with five professionals in social services, three volunteers from the voluntary sector and one social worker who worked in a community based support group for abused older women. The result of this study shows that older women were often abused, by a relative they were dependent on, in their home.

Stress är ett aktuellt ämne i dagens samhälle. Tidigare forskning har påvisat en koppling mellan stress, personlighet och kön. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om det fanns något samband mellan upplevd stress och karaktärsdraget neuroticism, med hänsyn till kön bland studenter. PSS och SGC-1 formulären delades ut till 109 studenter, varav 62 män och 47 kvinnor. Resultatet av studien visade att det fanns ett positivt samband mellan upplevd stress och neuroticism, när det kontrollerades för kön.

The aims of the present study were to implement and evaluate a three-session Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) stress management intervention in a non-clinical group of university students (N = 25) and to investigate the importance of practice in an ACT-intervention. A design with pre-test and double post-test was chosen. A comparison was made between a nine-hour ACT-intervention containing practice for the participants, a two-hour lecture on ACT and stress management containing no practice for the participants and a control group. Psychological flexibility was assessed with Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-2 and mindfulness was measured with Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills. Perceived stress level was measured with Perceived Stress Scale.

Swedish and international research indicate that many measures made by social services, concerning children and adolescents who are taken from their homes to an institution, are interrupted prematurely for different reasons. The word "breakdown" is used when a measure granted by the social service is broken before the projected time has passed. Research concerning how social service employees are influenced by measures being interrupted prematurely is very limited. The aim of this qualitative study is to examine how social service employees in Malmö are influenced by the premature interruption, "breakdown", of measures concerning children and adolescents who are taken from their homes to an institution. The theoretic basis for the study is Symbolic interactionism, especially the theory of Stefan Morén concerning conditions for change.The study is based on interviews with social employees, relevant material from research in this field and an examination of the theoretical basis.

Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för studierelaterad stress genom att höra och analysera gymnasieelevers beskrivningar av hur de själva upplever studierelaterad stress. Jag har använt mig av ett fenomenologiskt perspektiv då jag sökt svar på studiens frågeställningar med hjälp av den kvalitativa forskningsintervjun som metod. Resultatet visar att samtliga elever har erfarenhet av studierelaterad stress även om det enbart är kvinnorna som upplever hög grad av studierelaterad stress. Eleverna menar att stressen ofta är självförvållad. Dålig planering och betyg är vanliga stressfaktorer.

Syftet var att undersöka samband mellan stress, hälsoångest, sjukvårdsbesök samt läkemedelsförbrukning i fängelsemiljö. Respondenterna var 66 män i åldrarna 21 - 68 år med avtjänade straff från en månad till tretton år och nio månader. Studien baserades på självskattningsfrågeformulär vilket mäter stress  (Perceived Stress Scale, PSS ) och hälsoångest (Health Anxiety Inventory, Short Version, SHAI). Dataanalyser kontrollerade samband, predicerbarhet och interaktionseffekter. Resultatet påvisade samband och predicerbarhet mellan stress och hälsoångest samt med hur ofta intagna besöker sjukmottagningen men inget samband med förbrukning av läkemedel.

Bakgrund: Stress är ett växande folkhälsoproblem som kostar samhället stora summor pengar och många källor till stress kan återfinnas på en arbets- plats. Stress kan förebyggas genom preventivt arbete och för en sjuk- gymnast finns det många olika sätt att angripa arbetsrelaterad stress. Syfte: Att i form av en litteraturstudie beskriva preventiv sjukgymnastik och dess effekter vid arbetsrelaterad stress utifrån signifikant förbättring och evidens. Metod: Empiriska artiklar publicerade år 1994 eller senare söktes i databaserna AMED, Cinahl, Cochrane Library, Ergonomics Abstracts, MEdline och PEDro. Åtta artiklar inkluderades och evidensgraderades.

Employees of the criminal correctional system have a duty to notify social services if they suspect that children are exposed to maltreatment, according to Chapter 14, § 1 SoL. Despite the obligation to report, studies show that this is not done at all times. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze how the criminal correctional system in Kalmar looks at notification if they suspect that children are exposed to maltreatment. To examine this, we used qualitative research method based on semi-structuring interviews; these were carried out with six employees, working in the criminal correctional system. The answers that emerged during the interviews have been analyzed using Yeheskel Hasenfeld theory of human services organizations, and trough previous research.