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Abstract Author: Ellen Andåker Title: Living with anorexia - a qualitative study on how anorexics experience their lives. Supervisor: Anders Giertz The aim of this study was to create an understanding for how it is to live with the disease anorexia nervosa and how the anorexics feel about their living conditions within the areas family, employment, health and social life is affected by the disease
The aim of this essay has been to se if creative activity can be used in social work, and if so how? Our main question has been if creative activity can effect a persons wellbeing. We did this by interviewing the staff on places where they use this kind of workmodel. We did six interviews. The theories we chose to use were cognitive theory and salutogenes. We found out that creative activity can b
The purpose of this essay was to shed some light on client’s experiences of meetings with a social worker in a social office. More specifically the aim was set to link together details in the clients stories with theories regarding micro power. To gather information a number of interviews were made. Included in the essay are four people’s different stories about meetings with social workers. One o
Since we came across many negative opinions regarded BBIC as a working model, the question: how this model influences the work satisfaction of the social workers who work with children and youth inquiries, was aroused. Our questions concerned work satisfaction and social workers ideals regarded their work. Our study is a qualitative study of social workers who work with children and youth inquiri
The purpose of this essay was to explore the meaning of interculturality and intercultural competence and its importance in social work. In Malmö there are currently over 285 000 citizens representing 170 different nationalities speaking over a hundred different languages. Is this diversity being exploited within the social services in Malmö, and if so in what ways? Our empirical material is based
The purpose of this study was to examine which perceptions the nursing staffs in the elderly care has about leadership styles, the leader's position in the organization and the leader's competence. I chose this subject because there have been major changes in the welfare sector that have affected the organization, leadership and the direct care work. My quantitative study was carried out u
Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att undersöka hur personer med olika fysiska besvär upplever effekten av den ergonomiska anpassningen av sin kontorsmiljö, samt om och hur det har påverkat arbetet men också aktiviteter utanför arbetet. Studien är en uppföljning av interventioner som tidigare genomförts av en arbetsterapeut. Åtta undersökningspersoner med arbete vid datorer har medverkat. Sa
Occupational balance is a complex phenomenon with a number of different definitions. In this study, which purpose was to investigate how working occupational therapists describe and experience occupational balance, eight occupational therapists participated. The study had a qualitative approach including focus group interviews as a method. As the method of analysis qualitative content analysis wit
Purpose: Examine the effects of different warehousing strategies. Problem: What effects can be seen through the use of different warehousing strategies based on different customer behavior? Method: The simulation methodology used was based on Banks’ line of action. The methodology regarding design of experiment was based on Montgomery’s recommendations. Objective: Quantify the picking efficiency g
Det här är en studie som berör området förändringsprocesser. En empirisk undersökning har gjorts i en kommuns HR avdelning. Studien har haft syftet analysera en pågående förändringsprocess med avseende på att identifiera möjliga hinder för processens förankring. För att svara på detta har vi använt oss av kvalitativ studie som metodval. Datainsamlingen har skett genom en observation, intervjuer av
Uppsatsen analyserar hur diskursen om moderskapet konstrueras. Detta för att nå en förståelse för hur en respektabel moder enligt normer förväntas vara. Vidare analyseras också om en mammas klasstillhörighet kan tänkas påverka moderskapets respektabilitet utifrån hur den för samhället normerande bilden av moderskapet ser ut. Studiens empiriska material består av föräldrainformation i form av föräl
Sediment transport pattern in the Himalayan River is complex and sediment sampling in these rivers are often difficult. Sediment load in the river varies largely from year to year. Major part of the sediment load is transported in the monsoon months. Reliable and consistent sediment rating equation is not found for the Himalayan Rivers. The change in the flow rate and suspended sediment concentrat
Abstract This assignment is an examinationpaper on behalf of School of social studies at the University of Lund. The essay is about penalty and treatment in the Swedish youth welfare. Present-day Swedish youth welfare has on behalf of the legal system to implement penalty to the adolescence but also give them treatment for the coming life. We think it can be a problem to use these to aspects in
The purpose of this essay has been to 1) examine if one, by using the method of a combined quantitative and qualitative content analysis, can see how alcohol and drug abusers are socially constructed and, 2) study verdicts made according to The Care of Alcoholics and Drug Abuser Act (LVM 1988:870) to see how the social services, the county administrative court and the individual abuser describes a
Through media reports we became aware that several municipalities and organizations used the concept of fundamental values to show the approach to governing. Also through media, we became aware of a report which proposed a statutory national fundamental value for the elderly. We were curious about what was actually meant by the term fundamental values, and the effect it has, and the purpose of the
Several previous studies have shown that Internet-based CBT can be an effective treatment of social phobia in adults. To what extent this treatment is applicable for adolescents is currently not clear. It is plausible, however, that a multimedia approach is suitable for this audience. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to design and evaluate a film consisting of educational material abo
Lärande i arbetet är ett ständigt aktuellt ämne. Likaså stress som ständigt diskuteras. Uppsatsens syfte var att undersöka utvalda stressorers påverkan på lärsituationer i arbetet. Studien är teoretisk och baserades på litteratur vi fann lämplig i förhållande till syfte samt utökad frågeställning. Vi skapade en egen modell som följer med processen genom hela uppsatsen. Modellen visar relationen me
Uppsatsen utgår ifrån en utvärdering av traineprogrammet i Skåne Nordväst 07/08. Traineeprogrammet startade som ett projekt för att rekrytera in driftiga, nyutexaminerade ungdomar till att fylla de glapp på specialist och ledarskapspositioner som väntas uppstå vid 40-talisternas pensionsavgångar. Syftet med uppsatsen är att utvärdera traineernas lärande och utveckling samt diskutera det empiriska
The purpose of this study is to show and discuss the work and the efforts that are made for children and young asylum seekers in the Swedish society, focusing on the rights of the child. My aim was also to discuss whether Sweden complies with the Convention on the rights of the child in asylum cases. My questions were: What rights do children and young asylum seekers have compared to adults? How a
The purpose of this essay was to describe and analyze how media report on Swedish social services’ work with children and adolescents and if this has changed over time. The theoretical and methodological perspective applied was a discourse analytic approach from which 15 articles from a big national Swedish newspaper was selected. In addition have two qualitative interviews been carried out, one w
