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- Blomberg, Helena, et al.
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Medier och samhällsvetenskap
- 2004
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Ingår i: Sociala problem och socialpolitik i massmedier. - 9144032269
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vad betyder massmedia för synen på sociala problem och socialpolitik? Författarna i denna bok tar ur olika vinklar upp massmediers betydelse när det gäller att forma allmänhetens och beslutsfattares världsbild, inte minst gäller det socialpolitiska brännande frågor som hur invandrare behandlas i press och tv eller hur man rapporterar om sociala problem som brottslighet. Men vilka är då de världsbilder som olika medier förmedlar och vad kan man lära sig genom att studera dessa? Det har hittills saknats litteratur som systematiskt tar sig an dessa frågor ur ett nordiskt perspektiv. Den här boken söker fylla det tomrummet från en nordisk horisont. Här finns kapitel om hur socialpolitiken i stort framställs i medier, hur den moderna förorten beskrivs och hur journalister resonerar om invandrarfrågor, hur tidskrifter för hemlösa behandlar hemlöshetsfrågor och hur dagspressen skriver om socialarbetare, utsatta barn, brott och brottsoffer. För läsare som är intresserade av olika metoder för att analysera texter återfinns exempel på allt från kvantitativ innehållsanalys till textnära diskursanalyser.
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- Backlund, Åsa, 1970-
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Elevvård i grundskolan : Resurser, organisering och praktik
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the thesis is to describe and analyse the organization, resources and practice of pupil welfare work in municipal compulsory schools. In one study, telephone interviews with head masters from a random sample of 100 municipal compulsory schools have been carried out. A second study is based on material from two case studies, where the work of the pupil welfare team members and the everyday organizing of pupil welfare, are scrutinized.The distribution of special pupil welfare resources varied considerably. Almost one-third of the variation could be explained by organizational and structural variables included in a regression analysis. Practically all schools in the sample had a school nurse, while school social workers and in particular school psychologists, were available to a lesser extent. Regarding the latter two professions, the results indicate that these resources are allocated to pupils of different age groups. The involvement of different kinds of municipal service in pupil welfare work is becoming a common form of organization. The case studies show that these service units can become influential actors in the organizing of local pupil welfare work.School nurses appear to be an institutionalized resource, with regard to their presence in schools and the content of their work. The school social worker lacks a specific technology of her own that distinguishes her work from other professions. School social work is performed by several professions and for some tasks domain conflicts can arouse. These conflicts can to a certain degree be rooted in the enhanced consultative role of the pupil welfare specialists, which affects the division of labour between the actors. The pupil welfare meetings studied in the case studies where characterized by asymmetrical relationships, where little space were given for pupils and their parents to be actively involved in the decision-making process.
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- Bergmark, Anders, 1951-, et al.
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Guided or independent? Social workers, central bureaucracy and evidence-based practice
- 2011
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 14:3, s. 323-337
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the start of the 1990s, a number of professional fields in the Western world have been confronted with increasingly explicit demands for scientific assurance regarding the effects of the work they do. The debate on the relationship between research and practice in social work has often been carried out under the heading of evidence-based social work or evidence-based practice (EBP). This article is based on a survey distributed to a representative sample of social workers and middle managers within the Swedish municipal social services. The results indicate a generally positive attitude among Swedish social workers towards EBP; at the same time they show a low level of active contact with the research literature of relevance for EBP. The results are contextualized and discussed against the background of some major methodological issues in EBP, such as, for example, the so called Dodo bird verdict in psychotherapy outcome research.
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- Ekermo, Mats
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Den mångtydiga FoU-idén : lokala FoU-enheters mening och betydelse
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the 1990’s we witnessed an increasing number of local research and development (R&D) units in the Swedish public sector of social welfare outside academic institutions. The aim of this thesis is to explore the R&D phenomenon, the establishment of local R&D units and what the activities at the R&D units are. The issue of local R&D units has been divided into three aspects that correspond to three studies: a societal study, an organizational study and an individual study. Qualitative methods have been used including 10 case studies, 86 interviews with researchers and co-workers at the R&D units, 20 interviews with participating practitioners, analyses of R&D projects, documents and official reports. The analysis has been guided by new institutional theories about organizational change, how organizational concepts are spread and translated in organizational fields.Currents in social politics and research politics have, together with a criticism against academic research and its insufficiency in solving practical problems, caused a societal pressure on changed relations between research and practice. Cutbacks and changes in social welfare organizations have, together with an uncertainty about the outcomes and results of the social services, led to increasing demands for knowledge and professional competence in social work.The local R&D concept can be described in three key sentences; knowledge development close to social practice, interplay between research and practice and participation from practitioners. From a tool perspective local R&D units are established for playing a vital role in rationalizing their mother organizations and developing their efficiency in fulfilling their duties. The spreading of the R&D concept in the field of social welfare sector is characterized by ideological control. By referring to ideas of modernity and progress the local R&D units are associated with central cultural values. The R&D concept is therefore also attractive from a symbolic perspective, it helps legitimise their mother organizations and prove their identity.Many projects at the R&D units correspond with the notion of rational organizations striving for improving their efficiency. At the same time R&D units display a variety of heterogeneous projects that appear as fragmentary and loosely coupled to their mother organizations. The local R&D units are also mixed up in internal organizational conflicts. On an individual level practitioners have experienced learning and a salutary break from the ordinary work. The functions of participating in R&D projects are less instrumental and have more interactive and enlightening character. Some functions are not only hidden but also even in conflict with the official goals and intentions of the R&D units.Local R&D units show an organizational instability with various meanings for different agents. Questions for future studies should concern the actual effects of local R&D units. The thesis concludes with the question of whether or not local R&D units are anything more than an organizational fashion. The late modern society has caused a need for developing reflexive knowledge and capacity among social agents. In the boarder zone between academy and social welfare work, a long-term challenge arises for the R&D units, namely to develop new forms of knowledge production that are both academically and socially robust.
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- Östberg, Francesca, 1952-
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Bedömningar och beslut : Från anmälan till insats i den sociala barnavården
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The focus of this thesis is on social workers’ role in assessing and making decisions in child welfare cases. The primary aim is to identify factors that influence decisions concerning reports assessed, investigated, dismissed or processed to intervention within child welfare agencies in Swedish municipalities. Social policy, professional and organisational factors are perspectives considered in the analysis. All reports and requests for support for children and adolescents in the 0–19 age group were collected during two months in two local agencies, in 2003 (n= 260) and followed by interviews with social workers. Factors connected to social workers’ assessments at different stages in the process were tested in regression models and grounds for their assessments explored. Main results: two-thirds of reports are sorted out without investigation. One-fifth led to interventions. The highest probability for a report to be investigated was if it was assessed as acute, concerned abuse, came from a professional (not the police) concerned a girl and handled in the integrated agency. The most common problems, such as family conflicts and antisocial behaviour were investigated the least. A majority of the children came from underprivileged families, mainly poor single mothers. The process draws the pattern of a heavily tapered funnel with few interventions at the end. Children are not in focus and the attitude is to keep them out of the system for their own good. Social policy and organisational factors restrict social workers’ discretion. Contradictory demands are solved by a ‘consensual ideology’. Parallel tracks appear on risks in a narrow perspective and on voluntary counselling mainly directed to mothers. This forms child welfare into a rejecting practice, where hard social conditions are individualized. Legislation gives municipalities considerable leeway to produce a variety of services and interventions, but practice works on the basis of another kind of rationality.
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