The aim of this study was to research how social-work professionals apprehend, manage and influence difficult Conversation.  This study is based on a qualitative method and we did qualitative interviews with eleven social-work professionals in three municipalities located in southern Sweden. In addition to our research on difficult Conversation we decided to study easy Conversation. Our result show that there isn?t any special subjects that creates difficult Conversation, but it is the absent of Conversation that makes it difficult.

This thesis is based on a Conversation about gender identity and the pronoun hen in an episode of the radio programme Tendens on Swedish public radio, P1. The participants of the Conversation are a scholar and a journalist/show-host. The goal of the research has been to analyse how the Conversation is constructed from its context and which topics that occur. The goal of the research has also been to analyse how the participants of the Conversation position themselves and how the Conversation composes and re-composes norms and values regarding gender identity in society. Critical discourse analysis, completed by Conversation analysis has been the theoretical and methodological approach.

This paper discusses how four people in the Swedish Radio station P3, together interact to account therapy trends towards a third party. The focus is on whether, and if so, how they collaborate to make the Conversation intelligible for radio listeners. This is done by means of Conversation analysis and methods developed by the CA. The result is interesting when the Conversation participants do not follow their expected roles as broadcasters and experts while they disagree about the communicative projects to be carried out..

This thesis is based on a Conversation about gender identity and the pronoun hen in an episode of the radio programme Tendens on Swedish public radio, P1. The participants of the Conversation are a scholar and a journalist/show-host. The goal of the research has been to analyse how the Conversation is constructed from its context and which topics that occur. The goal of the research has also been to analyse how the participants of the Conversation position themselves and how the Conversation composes and re-composes norms and values regarding gender identity in society. Critical discourse analysis, completed by Conversation analysis has been the theoretical and methodological approach.

 The aim of this essay was to examine the way preschool teachers and children converse during school meals, and also the way preschool teachers start and develop Conversations during meals. The Conversations were analyzed from the topic of Conversation and the teachers' ways of using language acts such as questions, remarks, exhortations. The study was based on observations, tape recording and contact schedule. The result shows that the topic of Conversation is significant for how involved teachers are in Conversations during meals. The result also shows how Conversations develop or end depending on what language acts teachers use.

The study explored how a model for Conversation partner trainingworked for family members of people with Parkinson's disease. Participants inthe study were three dyads consisting of persons with PD and their carers. Thepurpose of the study consisted in finding out whether the participantsexperienced a change in communication after the intervention, and in findingout if this potential change could be observed in the Conversation. The resultsshowed that 4/6 participants experienced an improvement in communicationafter the intervention. This improvement was however not observed in theConversation.

Dementia may cause difficulties in communicating. People suffering from dementia are therefore often described as being unable to take part in meaningful Conversation. The responsibility to create understanding in a Conversation is shared by all participants. By means of different strategies, participants in Conversation can construct understanding through collaboration. How these strategies are utilized in Conversation where one or more of the participants suffer from dementia is relatively unknown.

Introduction: The Conversation is one of the main components of the nursing process in psychiatric care. The preunderstanding on this research field is described based on theoretical concepts that together form the basis for understanding the study; nurse's role in psychiatric care, communication and caring relationship, as well as theories of the caring Conversation and person-centered care. Research on the caring Conversation as a theory and how it is experienced by patients existed, however, no research from the nurse's perspective was found.Aim: The aim of the study was to describe nurses' experiences of the caring Conversation with patients in psychiatric open care units.Method: Qualitative research interviews were conducted with six nurses working in outpatient psychiatric care in the west region in Sweden. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and then analyzed according to the qualitative content analysis as described by Graneheim and Lundman (2004).Results: Four categories with related subcategories were distinguished throughout the analysis: The caring Conversation, The importance of the care plan, Limitations and Caring based on the patients narrative.Discussion: An uncertainty about what caring Conversation is and what it should contain creates uncertainty in the nurse's work. This results in a need for training for the individual nurse and the further research to obtain evidence for the importance of Conversation in caring work.

Dementia may cause difficulties in communicating. People suffering from dementia are therefore often described as being unable to take part in meaningful Conversation. The responsibility to create understanding in a Conversation is shared by all participants. By means of different strategies, participants in Conversation can construct understanding through collaboration. How these strategies are utilized in Conversation where one or more of the participants suffer from dementia is relatively unknown.

The purpose of this paper was to gain knowledge about the Conversation about developmental opportunities in the organization, and how a company uses it. The focus was on four different themes, purpose of the Conversation about developmental opportunities in the organization, planning, execution and content, feedback. The sample consisted of six people, three employees and three managers of the company. The interviews were conducted by an interview guide, one for the employees and one for the managers. The results of the interviews showed that the Conversation about developmental opportunities in the organization was used by managers to make all employees to strive in the same direction, an opportunity for employees to reconcile how their work performance is perceived by their managers, the use of a preparation model differs between managers and feedback was important.

The aim of the study was to investigate how a significant other of threepersons with Parkinson?s disease experienced the communication in Conversation. Astructured interview and analysis of a video recorded Conversation was performed.The questions in the interview were aimed at mapping the significant others?experience of communicative problems, their frequency, degree and Conversationstrategies used by a significant other in Conversation. The result showed that thesignificant others? experienced problems in communication related to the disease inseveral different areas for two of three participants with Parkinson?s disease.

 The aim of this essay was to examine the way preschool teachers and children converse during school meals, and also the way preschool teachers start and develop Conversations during meals. The Conversations were analyzed from the topic of Conversation and the teachers' ways of using language acts such as questions, remarks, exhortations. The study was based on observations, tape recording and contact schedule. The result shows that the topic of Conversation is significant for how involved teachers are in Conversations during meals. The result also shows how Conversations develop or end depending on what language acts teachers use.

Preschool is a place that is continually undergoing change at a rapid pace and developing the skills of our educators is essential for their ability to keep up with these changes. Guidance Conversations can be used as a vital tool for the educators competence development.The purpose of this essay is to investigate how educators, special educators and preschool principals think and reason about the use of guidance Conversations in preschool.A qualitative method has been used in the shape of interviews with educators, special educators and preschool principals working within different districts of a medium sized city in the south of Sweden.These interviews revealed that the use of guidance Conversations is often controlled by specific needs and is used when a problem arises amongst the children. There are many expectations on the special educators role in these Conversations, one of which is the role of Conversation leader with the purpose of guiding the Conversation amongst involved parties and give them the tools they need to resolve problems by themselves instead of delivering packaged solutions..

In Shop! Daniel Svensson is studying the Public Consume Conversation during the 90´s. Focus is based on two local papers in the Swedish town Norrköping and the Public Media Conversation, which these two represent. What kind of discourses has been dominating this Conversation, that is the most important question in Shop! To answer this, Daniel Svensson uses the Critical Discourse Analysis, by Norman Fairclough, as an analytic tool. This method provides him with the possibility to connect the micro level of text with the macro level of the society. But this demands theories of the contemporary society at a macro level.

 Like adult obesity, childhood obesity prevalence is rising, especially in the Western World.As many as 20 ? 25 percent of the ten years old children are overweight in Sweden. It isimportant to early identify overweight, since overweight could lead into diabetes, mentalsuffering, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.The aim of this study was to describe how nurses experience and perceive the Conversationwith parents of overweight children. A qualitative method with a content analysis has beenused. Six nurses working in child health centre have been interviewed.The result shows that the Conversation between the nurse and the parents of an overweightchild can be very difficult.