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- Hjelmstedt, Sofia, et al.
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Facilitators and barriers to return to work and meet financial needs in parents of children with cancer
- 2021
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Ingår i: Pediatric Blood & Cancer. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1545-5009 .- 1545-5017. ; 68:10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to explore what facilitators and barriers parents of children with cancer identify for their ability to return to work and meet financial needs.PROCEDURE: Nine focus groups (21 mothers; 11 fathers) were performed across Sweden in 2015 and 2019. A deductive content analysis approach was used. A preconstructed matrix consisting of 12 codes based on previous literature was used to organize the data. The codes were grouped into subcategories, which were abstracted to four generic categories.RESULTS: Facilitators for a return to work were covered in the category "Flexibility and understanding from employers and social services," and barriers in the category "Pressure to return without consideration of the consequences." Facilitators to meeting financial needs were covered in the category "Available public, private, and employer support," and barriers in the category "Lack of organized and efficient support from employers and social services."CONCLUSIONS: The identified barriers suggest that there is room for improvement in the provision of psychosocial support, which relates to a perceived lack of organized support regarding practical, financial, and occupational matters. The results show a need for a coordinated support system that includes major stakeholders, such as the health care, welfare agencies, and employers. Moreover, employers should consider how to implement more workplace flexibility and involvement of occupational health services. Importantly, to be able to return to work and achieve a sustainable financial situation, it is necessary for all stakeholders to recognize the long-term impact of parenting a child with cancer.
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- Hjelström, Tomas, et al.
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Debt accumulation and the value chain: Who will help whom in a post-COVID-19 recovery with massive debt?
- 2020. - 1st
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Ingår i: Sweden through the crisis. - Stockholm : Stockholm School of Economics Institute for Research. - 9789186797386 ; , s. 111-123
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this article, Tomas Hjelström and Torbjörn Sällström discuss potential effects of debt accumulation. Comparing industrial and service firms, they highlight risks that occur when several companies in a value chain accumulate massive debts. If companies survive short term by accumulating debt instead of issuing new equity, the long-term prospects for the larger eco-system might be very negative.
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- Hjelte, Jan, 1965-, et al.
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Changes in ideas on knowledge governance in the context of social services in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 13:3, s. 431-444
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the past 20 years, the Swedish government and national authorities have organized a structure for knowledge governance in order to implement an evidence-based practice (EBP) for social services. Since the idea of a knowledge governance has not been implemented as expected, it was considered important to develop regional collaboration and support structures (RCSSs) as a link between national and local authorities. In this article, we discuss changes in ideas on knowledge governance at the national level, and also changes in expectations on RCSSs function in knowledge governance of the Swedish social service. Changes in governance also change the prerequisites for implementation of EBP. Therefore, it is important to further examine and analyse ideas on knowledge governance at the national level and whether they change over time. The empirical data consists of official documents and interviews with representatives of key actors at national level. A qualitative content analysis of the interviews was then performed and also an analysis of the official document was used to describe the changes on knowledge governance. This article shows that ideas on knowledge governance has changed over time, from an emphasis on top-down governance towards a more dialogue-based governance. This shift in governance ideals also appears to have had an impact on expectations regarding RCSSs, through an increased emphasis on their collaborative function in relation to both national and local levels. The knowledge governance and the function of the RCSSs appear to be fragile, as this collaboration is based on voluntary partnership and networks.
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- Hjelte, Jan, 1965-, et al.
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From thought to action : young parents' reasons for participation in parenting support groups at child welfare centers
- 2015
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Ingår i: Social Work in Public Health. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 1937-1918 .- 1937-190X. ; 30:6, s. 516-533
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article the focus is on young parents' engagement process in relation to participation in parenting support groups carried out at child welfare centers. This qualitative study focuses not only on young parents' reasons for participating or not participating in parenting support groups during different phases in their engagement process, but also on examining the circumstances that may contribute to such changes. The results show that these reasons can be divided into four categories: the staff, other participants, the social network, and practical circumstances. It also appears that these reasons change between different phases of their engagement process. Primarily three different circumstances contributed to variation in parents' reasons: difficulty in predicting the value of participation, increased closeness in relationships with staff and other parents, and the specific life phase in which young parents find themselves. The results have important implications for policy makers and practitioners in their work in formulating and updating parenting support; they also indicate what may be important to focus on in the recruitment of young parents, and also what may be crucial in regard to them completing their engagement in parent support groups.
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- Hjelte, Jan, 1965-, et al.
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Kunskap och expertis i små glesbygdskommuners socialtjänst : synen på utmaningar och lösningar
- 2023
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : FORSA (Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete). - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 30:1, s. 457-476
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Small rural municipalities face major challenges in the area of welfare. One of these challenges is about providing knowledge and expertise within social services. As a result of its small scale, social services in rural areas have an integrated organisation where social workers are supposed to work with a wide range of social problems. At the same time, there are expectations that they should have expertise in defined areas. This article focuses on how representatives of social services in eight rural municipalities view the opportunities to provide knowledge and expertise.Data collection was carried out within an action research project in connection with conferences and workshops. The results show that it can be challenging to develop knowledge and expertise. Since social services mainly have an integrated organisation, it is difficult to keep up-to-date on the state of knowledge in all areas. Another challenge is that it can be difficult to maintain skills in practice because certain types of cases are encountered relatively rarely.To deal with the challenges, different collaborative solutions are seen as a way to balance expectations on knowledge and expertise, and to balance the expectations of knowledge and expertise with the conditions that prevail in rural environments. The attitude towards different kinds of digital technology – for example web-based education and supervision – as tools for knowledge development and access to expertise is consistently positive. The results also indicate that digital technology has the potential to change the perspectives on the organisation of knowledge development and expertise within social services in rural municipalities.An overall interpretation of the results is that social services in rural areas must deal with different challenges in terms of knowledge and expertise than social services in larger and more densely populated areas. Therefore, the possible solutions are also different.
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- Hjelte, Jan, 1965-
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Samarbete i gränsland : Om relation och kommunikation i samarbete mellan skola och barnomsorg
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is a case study about the forms of appearance and the consequences of relations and communication in collaborative work between school and child-care providers. The empirical data consists mainly of interviews, but include also a number of written documents.The aims of the study are:• First, to review how relations and communication appear in collaborations between school and child-care.• Second, to examine the consequences of relations and these communica-tions for cooperation between different professions in school and child-care.• Third, to review how these relations and communications between child-care and school are influenced by organizational conditions.The theoretical frame of reference has four sections. The first comprises some comprehensive assumptions for the thesis. The second deals with perspectives on relation and communication. The third discusses cooperation as organizing of social processes. The fourth examines, from a neo-institutional standpoint, how organizational conditions influence professional relations and communication in these collaborations.Regarding relations, the analysis shows that there was regular face-to-face-contact between different professional groups but variations in frequency of contact. One contributing cause to the variations was geographical distance. Another cause was the extent to which the groups shared common interests. It also became evident that there were variations in the distribution of power partly caused by systemic, structural, conditions and partly by episodic and temporary aspects.The analysis also shows that communication has four content types. First, work communication, refers to the everyday communication in cooperation. News- and status communication concerns actors, at different levels, informing other actors about their status. Management communication, partly concerned the coordination of areas of responsibility on the management level. It also con-cerned the managers’ direction of the operative level. Value and culture communication, included discussions about the underlying assumptions of different programs.Relations and communication affected those areas of knowledge and those programs that would be a part of the cooperation. If the actors did not agree with one another they had to negotiate to reach an agreement that both parties accepted. Communication also influenced the opportunity to organize cooperation around children’s needs. For example communication influenced flexibility in the cooperation. To make this possible continuous communication was necessary as was the opportunities to create similar knowledge about each other’s competence and how it was manifested in the practical work.Regarding the organizational conditions, institutional rules affected the actors opinions about whom they should cooperate, and therefore communicate, with. In spite of that, the actors on the operative level had a space to act strategically. Therefore the implementation of cooperation, to a great extent, was formed in communication between actors who were involved in the every day work.
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- Hjern, Anders, et al.
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Outcomes in adulthood of adoption after long-term foster care : a sibling study
- 2019
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Ingår i: Developmental Child Welfare. - : SAGE Publications. - 2516-1032 .- 2516-1040. ; 1:1, s. 61-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Prior research has reported a positive impact of adoption on developmental outcomes for children with experience of foster care. To inform decisions about permanent care arrangements, we used Swedish national population registers to create a sibling population consisting of 194 children born 1973–1982 who had been in out-of-home care (OHC) at least 5 years before adolescence but were never adopted (50% boys) and their 177 maternal birth siblings who also had been in OHC at least 5 years before their teens but were adopted before adolescence (52.5% boys). We constructed 14 outcome variables spanning social, educational, and health outcomes in adult age with information from Swedish national registers. Based on multilevel logistic random effects and fixed effects regression models (supplemented with a sensitivity analysis assessing the potential impact of unobserved confounding), results showed that adopted siblings tended to have considerably better outcomes in adult age in educational achievement, income, criminality, disability, and suicidality. Outcomes related to mental health and substance abuse were more similar, but differences pointed in the same direction. Implications for child welfare policy and practice are discussed.
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