AbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the reason why students contact Adults if they are involved in any kind of bullying, what support they had received and wished for, as well as to investigate why student don?t contact Adults. About of 150 students, 50 girls and 56 boys (70%) had experienced bullying of different kinds; some had more than one kind of experience. The students expressed that they had contacted Adults when they ?felt unwell? and to ?stop bullying?.

In this thesis the positioning of children and Adults in the context of children?s rights in SouthAfrica and Sweden are examined. With theoretical terms as children in vulnerability and Adults incharge the analysis examines how South Africa and Sweden has been using the UN children?sconvention to empower children and for what consequences in the positioning of children that hasshown. And that Adults are positioned as a powerful group with a responsibilty of protectingchildren.

The aim of this study is to become aware of how the children at the after-school care perceive the Adults at after-school care. The most interesting parts are to find out what they thought made a good teacher, which qualities were preferable and how the children expressed their opinions. The children often spend long time at the after-school care which means that the children?s work environment matters. The children look at Adults from another perspective and see other qualities than Adults see in each other.

The aim of this thesis is to examine young Adults? attitudes towards libraries marketing in social media. Libraries mainly use social media to reach out to young Adults. However, young Adults mainly use social media to communicate with their friends. The question that arises is if young Adults are interested in communicating with organizations such as libraries on social media.

The youth of today grow up with all the new ways to communicate that new technology provides. A lot of young people chat on the Internet. Adults often lack experience and knowledge about this way to communicate. This is a study of teenagers and Adults values and views on teenagers online chatting. It focuses on area of use, meaning and effects on young people.

This study analyses five different picture books from the last few decades. The aim of the analysis was to investigate how relations between children and Adults are presented in the picture books. One way to achieve this has been to focus on the Adults? presence or absence in the narrative, and also what kind of authority the adult(s) can have in the action and how it can affect relations between children and Adults. The idea is that this degree project can be adapted for practical use in school.

    Abstract The aim of this paper is to highlight experiences gained by psychotherapists in their work with young Adults.  Aspects looked at include: recurring themes, the process of diagnosing young Adults, the therapeutic alliance, and the therapeutic techniques.  Six experienced psychodynamic therapists were interviewed, and a semi-structured interview method was used. The results show a high level of agreement between the therapists as to their experiences and conclusions of psychotherapy with young Adults.Results presented in this paper suggest that there is a difference between psychodynamic therapy used with young Adults, and the more traditional psychodynamic therapy.  The most important difference turned out to be the approach of the therapist toward the patient, where a more active and distinct approach by the therapist to the here-and-now situation was to be preferred. All six therapists came out strongly against the use of the DSM manual when diagnosing young Adults. The importance of understanding young Adults and their difficulties from a psychological development point of view was stressed, as well as the importance of taking the approach that the years of young adulthood bring their own issues and concerns. It is clear from these interviews that there is a strong need for the establishment of institutions or centres specifically tailored to meet the needs of young Adults for psychotherapeutic treatment at an early stage and in an adequate way, in order to avoid unnecessary ?pathologising? of their specific problems.  .

The aim of the study was to examine the reading ability of Adultswith intellectual and/or communicative disabilities. The group Adults withintellectual and/or communicative disabilities consisted of 66 individuals.One control group consisting of 36 children aged 7 to 12 years and onereference group consisting of 14 Adults were used. Participants were given anumber of language and reading related tests. Adults with intellectual and/orcommunicative disabilities had significantly lower results than the adultreference group regarding all tests and significantly lower results than thechild control group regarding phonological processing. There was nodifference between Adults with intellectual and/or communicative disabilitiesand the child comparison group regarding word decoding and readingcomprehension.

The purpose of this study is to find out how social workers in one medium and one smallmunicipality in central Sweden perceive the need of financial support for young Adults formore than one year and what the causes might be. To answer our research questions aqualitative research method was used and four social workers were interviewed. The resulthas been analyzed based of social exclusion, stigma, as well as on structural and individuallevel and linked to previous research. Our results show that although young Adults are anexception for long duration for financial support, there are those who lack other means ofsupport for a long time. The results also show that young Adults often are recurring in thesocial services, and they are long-lasting.

The aim of the study is to show how children and Adults are described in three picture books, examining how children and Adults are portrayed in text-and-picture narrative and how this has changed over time. We have analysed how the characters in the books are presented and how the representation of children and Adults has changed in our own times.The material for the study consists of three picture books from different periods, with the focus on how children and Adults are described as the common point of departure. The analysed picture books are: Tomtebobarnen (Beskow 1919), Aja baja, Alfons Åberg! (Bergström 1972) and Snäll (Dahle 2008).We have arrived at the conclusion that a text-and-picture narrative is in very large measure a reflection of the outlook on children, childhood and child rearing at the time when the book was published. The result shows that the greatest change that has happened is that parents? and Adults? dominance in the books has declined over the years, and that children have been given a more prominent role.

The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent  young Adults use media to create the image of themselves. The questions we wanted to answer was as follows: what does the media use of young Adults look like compared to their attitudes towards media content; what awareness do they have of other young Adults attitudes concerning media content; and finally, how do these attitudes affect their own media use?Media consumption is a great part of  the daily lives of young Adults living in Sweden: the national  average media consumption is seven hours a day, for 15-24 year olds. This provides a new way for young Adults to express their identity - by showing their use of different media content, they can change other's perception of themselves.The method we used in our study was a combination between a quantitative and a qualitative method. We first made a survey in three classes with senior year high school-students, in a Swedish school.

The study which has been made is a qualitative observational study where play forms and participation of Adults were observed in two preschools. The word play is defined in the study with an ?as-if? ?nature based on Knutsdotters definition which differs play and activities from each other. The observed play form has been analyzed according to the concept of imitation and imagination play. To get a complete base of the study a few children on some occasions drew what they played or would like to play.Through photographs of these drawings and how the children described and explained what they drew a connection could be made with the children?s play forms.

The aim of the study is to show how children and Adults are described in three picture books, examining how children and Adults are portrayed in text-and-picture narrative and how this has changed over time. We have analysed how the characters in the books are presented and how the representation of children and Adults has changed in our own times.The material for the study consists of three picture books from different periods, with the focus on how children and Adults are described as the common point of departure. The analysed picture books are: Tomtebobarnen (Beskow 1919), Aja baja, Alfons Åberg! (Bergström 1972) and Snäll (Dahle 2008).We have arrived at the conclusion that a text-and-picture narrative is in very large measure a reflection of the outlook on children, childhood and child rearing at the time when the book was published. The result shows that the greatest change that has happened is that parents? and Adults? dominance in the books has declined over the years, and that children have been given a more prominent role.

We have from three studies examined how adolescents and young Adults, actors and the researchfield describes the preventive and health promotion work with sexual health. The questions weasked ourselves was based on what efforts adolescents and young Adults demand, whether there aredifferences between age, gender, place of residence, ethnicity, employment, and sexual orientation.Furthermore, we investigate if these requirements are consistent with the offered interventions fromparticipants, as well as which perspectives the work with STI / HIV and SRHR issues should bebased on. The investigation concerns the work of Västra Götaland and is answered by interviewswith participants regarding the activities offered by actors, a quantitative analysis and text analysisof the answers of adolescents and young Adults, and an international research overview of theresearch field. Our results show a high demand for basic preventive work from the adolescents andyoung Adults. Furthermore, there is an increased demand of action from men, LGBTQ group anddepending on the place of residence.

The aim was to examine writing ability and some of its underlyingfunctions in Adults with intellectual or communicative disabilities at dailyactivity centres by comparisons with children and Adults without disabilities.66 Adults with intellectual or communicative disabilities, 39 children and 14Adults without disabilities were included. The following tests/tasks wereexecuted: Test for Reception of Grammar-2, graphomotor task, nonwordrepetition, Rapid Automatized Naming and Writing elicited by pictures. Thepicture elicited narratives were examined regarding length, spelling,syntactic complexity, interpunctuation, content and general impression. Theresults demonstrated that Adults at daily activity centres performed lowerscores than Adults without disabilities. The group generally didn?t differ fromthe children, but they made a smaller proportion of phonologicallyacceptable misspellings and achieved lower scores on nonword repetitionand Rapid Automatized Naming, which could indicate limitations inphonological processing ability.