Search results

Genom Norrköpings stadskärna rinner Motala Ström, även kallad Strömmen i folkmun. Strömmen, tillsammans med det karaktäristiska industri-landskapet som stoltserar längs vattenkanten, är det som givit staden dess säregna och unika karaktär. På flera ställen i stan kan man komma i närkontakt med vattnet via bryggor, broar, slussar och promenadstråk – men överallt råder totalt badförbud. I en stad däMotala Ström, also known as Strömmen, flows through the city centre of Norrköping. Strömmen, together with the characteristic industrial landscape that struts along the water’s edge, is what has given the city its peculiar and unique character. There are several places where the urban landscape brings you into close contact with the water via jetties, bridges, sluices and walking paths - but every

The aim of this study was to analyze different types of leadership among managers in health and social care in Malmö during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Based on what is often described as an organization that was already in a vulnerable financial situation, managers develop and use different types of leadership. More specifically, this study aims to investigate how the leadership among managers

Anharmonic decay of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons in zincblende semiconductors is not at present well characterized due to the polar and many-body nature of the problem. Femtosecond THz radiation offers a novel route to this study, as the interaction of this radiation is directly with the phonon lattice and these THz excited phonons do not have enough energy to excite electrons over the band g

Juvenile delinquency is a topic that is well mentioned in social media and in politics. The aim of this study was to explore the circumstances and relationships that may contribute to young people turning to crime. The method chosen for this study was to conduct qualitative interviews with six different people, who were active criminals in their youth. The social bond theory, the strain theory, an

Three-part parenting is an approach that social services in Sweden should use in collaboration around a child placed in foster care. It describes how foster home, parents and social services share responsibilities for the welfare of the child. The purpose of this study was to illuminate the state of knowledge about the approach among social workers working with children and adolescents in Sweden.

In conjunction with the digital development, the use of digital payment services has increased, which entails a requirement for a mobile bank-id that not all groups in society have access to. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the modernization of payment services affects support-assistance staff from the understanding of independence in the everyday life of people with disabilities.T

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur anhöriga upplever att leva bredvid en närstående med missbruksproblem. Samt vilket stöd de anhöriga fått från olika instanser som de har kommit i kontakt med i samband med deras närstående missbruk. Med studiens syfte som utgångspunkt valdes en kvalitativ forskningsansats och med självbiografier som empiriskt material. Jag har sedan valt två olika teoreThe purpose of this study is to investigate how relatives experience living next to close relative with substance abuse problems. And what the support the relatives have received from various agencies that they have come into contact with in connection with their related abuse. With the purpose of the study as a starting point, a qualitative research approach was chosen and with autobiographies as

Tidigare forskning har visat en ökning av depression och ångest bland barn och ungdomar, vilket har lett till ett ökat intresse för barn och ungas mentala hälsa. Samtidigt har mindfulness tagits upp som en potentiell resurs för att motverka dessa åkommor, då det har visat lovande resultat både på beteende- och neural nivå. Medan tidigare forskning har visat avvikande plasticitet i hjärnans vita suConcerns regarding the mental health of children and adolescents are rising, as recent research has shown an increase in depression and anxiety in these populations. At the same time mindfulness has been proposed as a possible remedy for mood disorders, and has shown promising results regarding behavioral and neural outcomes. While previous research has shown how abnormal white matter plasticity m

The Swedish social services have undergone major changes in recent decades and the contemporary work context has shown to complicate for social workers to provide services that are in line with their professional ideals, which has been reported to relate to health impairment and high turnover among social workers. An extensive amount of research has examined factors relating to the work environmen

The aim of this study was to study categorisations of criminality in decisions on compulsory care for children aged 15-17 and how these articulations are used to argue for interventions. The study examined 24 judicial decisions on compulsory care from seven different administrative courts containing the word “kriminalitet”, as well as an articulation of criminal behaviour and from that an argument

The purpose of the study was to investigate how social workers work with children who have parents with substance abuse problems. The study and its results are based on a qualitative research design in the form of five semi-structured interviews with social workers from municipalities outside Stockholm. The collected empirical data and the results of the study have been interpreted and analyzed in

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze how social workers use different types of resistance in their professional work when dissatisfied with organizational routines and directives. We have used a qualitative method,through 8 semi structured interviews with social workers working through both NGO:s and governmental organizations. The theory used was Theodor Hirschman’s conceptualization

Global material consumption has been on the rise ever since commencement of industrialization and constant population rise. This statement holds good even for industries using solid metals as raw materials and the efficient use of materials is the need of the hour. The issues such as depleting metal sources due to continuous extraction and cost intensive counter measures to deal with problems rela

This study aimed to increase the understanding of social workers’ experience of outreach activities aimed at adults who do not actively seek community support. The study is based on a qualitative approach through interviews with four social workers. The study shows that outreach work aimed at a target group with complex problems and that the work itself was unpredictable. The target group was desc

The aim of this study was to examen the workfield of socialworkers in social assistance. In a time where technology is expanding in the world of Swedish social welfare in form of. automation. I was interested in the effect it may have on the socialworkers . I´ve also examined the status of working with social assistance since it is considered a low-status job in in the social workfield and how the

I dagens samhälle finns en ökande trend avseende användning av trä som bärande konstruktionsmaterial, särskilt i bostadshus. En relativt ny träprodukt är korslimmat massivträ (KL-trä). De olika KL-träskivorna inom en golv- eller takkonstruktion ansluts vanligtvis till varandra med skruvförband. Såväl skivans styvhet som anslutningens styvhet påverkar konstruktionens beteende vid horisontell belastSince ancient times, buildings have been constructed with the use of timber and during the modern era, new types of timber products have been developed. Today, more constructions, especially residential buildings are being built with timber as the main load-bearing material. By utilizing timber in buildings, the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in production decreases compared to other common ma

The purpose of this study was to investigate how social work professional’s reason about the ways in which childhood bullying have implications for mental health in adult life and how this reasoning is reflected in their work practice. It is a qualitative study conducted through five interviews. Their experience was essential for the purpose of the study. The theoretical framework used in the anal

Computer games are taking up much time and space in many youth´s young people’s everyday daily life. A lack of knowledge about consequences from such activities, can cause concern and worry within families. The purpose of this study was to investigate how family therapist reason about the effects of video computer games on the social relations within families and hence on their work with the famil