Individanpassning vid val av HVB-hem. "Hemma är inte alltid där du bor, utan där du är förstådd".
The purpose of this essay has been to study if the social services adjust the choice of institution to every juvenile's need of care. If the choice of institution isn't adjusted to the juveniles the institutional placement can become a way to store them rather then treat them.To accomplish the purpose of the essay we have interviewed ten social workers with different worktitles and positions. We have delimited the study to three swedish communities with varying sizes. We have analyzed the material with Bourdieus theory of "field" and "doxa" and Antonovskys theory "a sense of coherence" (SOC).We came to the conclusion that the social service adjusted the choice of institution to the juveniles needs as much as possible. Although there are a couple of factors that some times makes the best choices impossible. Some of these factors are lack of places at the institutions, the local governments economy, the social workers lack of knowledge of the institutions practical work and the low guarantees of quality regarding the institutions.