Our purpose was to examine what point of view social workers, active in schools, have of cross-cultural competence. To accomplish this we interviewed six counsellors in different senior-level compulsory schools in Malmö and Lund. The framing questions were: · What does cross-cultural competence mean? · What are the advantages and disadvantages with such competence? · Is it something that differs i

This thesis is written within the Master Program of the School of social work at the University of Lund. It comprehends a study of the pre-school personal appreciation about the pedagogical material -Children picture book- for pre-school education in the municipality of Gävle. The methodology of the study is the focus-group approach with slither tone of attitude study. This method help in order to

The purpose of this essay was to illustrate privatisation of health care from various outlooks. I illustrated the effects of privatisation from the perspective of users and employees. At the same time I analysed which possibilities and possible risks, related to privatisation, can be found. The following questions have been the basis of the essay: What is meant by privatisation of health care in S

The purpose of this essay was to examine how the intentions with the Polish school, in a social context, had changed from the round table discussions in 1989 up to 2001. Our main questions were as follows: -Which were the historical circumstances that shaped the pre-conditions for development of todays intentions in the Polish school system seen in a social context? -How are these intentions revea

The purpose of this essay was to try to understand wich situations and events influenced individuals in the process of both becoming a drug-addict and in the process becoming a person with a drug-free life. The framing of the questions we had were if it was possible to see a pattern and find similarities in the changing-process, what role did relationsships play and which turning-points was import

Our purpose with this paper was to describe how children experience and use curses and swearwords in the school environment, compared to the perspectives of adults and surrounding society. The main questions were: How common is cursing and swearing in the school environment and which factors are it influenced by? What do curses and swearwords mean for children and adults in today's society and

Our purpose with this essay was to examine how biological children in foster families, their parents and social workers experience the support and the information that the biological children receive from their parents and from social workers before, during and after a foster child is placed in the family. To get this information we interviewed six biological children to foster parents, two foster

This essay concerns the discrepancy between wanting to and actually having the possibility to accomplish in social work, as described by a group of social workers (BA). The essay paints a picture of a phenomenon with importance for personnel in Human Service Organizations. My perspective is the individual's relationship to his/her work and the thought of "the good work"is a main thre

The purpose of this essay is to examine if discrimination of obese women occurs and if people in general have prejudices against these women. We have made an investigation to find out if there is any connection between female obesity and social exclusion/discrimination. We have also investigated what kind of prejudices against female obesity that impress our society. We wanted to investigate how o

Purpose: The political management of health care in Region Skåne, has been the subject of criticism due to irrational government. The situation has been described in media as a lack of faith in the politicians. Furthermore professional representatives also described experiences that political decisions are sometimes seen as complicated factors in the running of everyday care-giving activities. The

This essay is a qualitative study on social work with children to addicted parents. The main purpose of the study was to answer the question why prevention work with children to addicted parents is done? The questions raised were: how is the situation for children to addicted parents described by professionals, why is prevention work with children to addicted parents done, how does literature and

The purpose of this essay was to examine how eight persons described their fathers, out of qualities, function and role. We also wanted to find out how they described their idealfather. Second the purpose was to compare the experience from two groups of respondents. Four of the respondents had grown up with a biological father and the other four with a non-biological father. Were there any differe

The meaning of this essay was to investigate how an employer handles abuse problems among the employees and which people who get involved in these problems. According to the Swedish law the employer must act when he discover that an employee has abuse problems. We have investigated how an action document about these looks like and what duties the employer has in these situations, but even what fun

This composition deal with the phenomenom and concept moral panic. It is thoroughly a theoretical composition and therefor has exclusively secondary material been used. The purpose of the composition have been that the writer shall study and analyse how the concept moral panic have been used and defined by the scientists who created and used the concept. The composition have used the three followi

Ethnicity has become a frequently used concept, not only in the academic world but also in the media and in public debates. The purpose of this paper was to have a closer look at what ethnicity actually is and what it means to people as well as to scientists, ethnicity as a concept and as a phenomenon. Focus was on the more recent research that has been done about what is described as "new et

This study investigated the validity of the Children's Sense of Coherence Scale, CSOC (in Swedish BarnKASAM-testet). We also studied if the test, from a developmental psychological point of view, was possible to use with children in grade 1-4, aged 7-11 years old. The results of the scale were also compared with two other test instruments that were expected to measure similar qualities. The CS

The purpose of this study was to examine how mangers in eldercare in the municipality of Helsingborg view the causes of burnout among employees and staff members, how they handle the situation when burnout appear and which preventive measures they use at the working site. The purpose was also to examine if the facts mentioned by the managers was supported by former studies and already existing res

The purpose of our paper was to examine what it is like to be a young mother in todays society. We have focused on the young mothers social network and how people around them has been treating them. We have also looked at what kind of support the young mothers get from the society and how they picture their future. We have been working out of a qualitative method of inquiry and interviewed ten mot

The main purpose of this essay was to study how the needs of the children and the best interest of the child, as it is described in the UN Conventions on the rights of the child (crc), are covered during the evaluation of providing supplementary benefit on a social services department. Based on this, I have formulated important questions. · How is the concept " best interest of the child"

Criminality is a constant current and distressing phenomenon of the society and we assume that crimes affect and awaken strong emotions, for instance fear and insecurity, in people. We chose to, with the help of quantitative method, investigate senior high school students' harassment of becoming victims of crime and the risk of being exposed to crime. Essential questions at issue run as follow