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- Broberg, Anders G, 1950, et al.
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Stöd till barn som bevittnat våld mot mamma - Resultat från en nationell utvärdering
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Barn som bevittnar våld mot en förälder som de är beroende av för sitt välbefinnande utsätts för en form av våld. Barn behöver – i synnerhet under den tidiga barndomen – föräldrar som prioriterar barnets behov framför sina egna. När barnets ena förälder – eller någon annan som bor med familjen – slår eller förgriper sig på den andra föräldern blir barnet känslomässigt övergivet och skyddslöst. Barn kan bevittna våld mot en primär omsorgsgivare under kortare eller längre peri-oder i sitt liv, men ofta innebär det ett liv begränsat av olika typer av makt, övergrepp och förtryck. Sådana upplevelser medför en ökad risk för att barnet utvecklar problem såsom posttraumatisk stress, depression, beteendeproblem och problem med sociala relationer – både inom familjen och med kamrater. Sedan 2007 är socialtjänstens ansvar, för att barn som bevittnat våld får det stöd och den hjälp de behöver, förtydligat i Socialtjänstlagen. Det viktigaste stödet för barn som bevittnat våld mot sin mamma är skydd från fortsatt utsatthet. Internationellt sett är den vanligaste formen av stöd till barn, utöver sådant skydd, samtal i grupp. Det finns dock stora skillnader mellan vilka mål programmen är tänkta att uppnå, vilket medför att utvärderingsstudier använder varierande mått för att bedöma vad som är ett ”lyckat utfall”. Detta försvårar i sin tur jämförelser av utvärde-ringar av dessa program. I Sverige är den vanligaste typen av insats fortfarande indivi-duella samtal, även om gruppverksamheter för barn har blivit vanligare de senaste 10 åren. Kunskapen om effekterna av de metoder som utvecklats inom och utom social-tjänsten för att stödja barn som bevittnat våld mot mamma är fortfarande begränsad internationellt och i Sverige är den i stort sett obefintlig. Göteborgs universitet fick 2008 i uppdrag av Socialstyrelsen att utvärdera effekten av insatser riktade till barn som bevittnat våld mot sin mamma. Syftet med utvärderingen var att studera förändringar i barns hälsa och välbefinnande efter stödinsatser, med ut-gångspunkt i mammors och barns beskrivningar.
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- Dahlkild-Öhman, Gunilla, et al.
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Inequality regimes and men’s positions in social work
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 20:1, s. 85-99
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to contribute to the exploration of men’s positions in professions numerically dominated by women through an in depth analysis of the gendering practices in groups of social workers. The empirical material consists of interviews with three work groups in Sweden, each with one man and several women as members. The analysis focuses upon gendering practices in the interview setting. It shows how the positions occupied by the men in the sample confirm or undermine constructions of masculinity as dominance. Furthermore, it is argued that to fully understand men’s positions in these groups the analysis needs take other forms of inequality into account in addition to gender. It is shown that in the empirical cases under scrutiny men’s positions are shaped by regimes of inequality where age and gender relations, as well as notions of professional experience, are interconnected.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Barn som upplever våld
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Ingår i: I arbete med våldsutsatta kvinnor. - Stockholm : Gothia Fortbildning. - 9789172058651 ; , s. 112-131
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Barns rätt som anhöriga BRA : Utvärdering av ett utvecklingsarbete
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rapporten redovisar iakttagelser och slutsatser om Allmänna Barnhusets utvecklingsarbete med namnet BRA – Barns Rätt som Anhöriga, och den modell för information, råd och stöd till anhöriga barn som arbetet resulterade i: BRA-modellen. Utvärderingsuppdragets fokus har legat på att skaffa en så bred bild som möjligt av BRA modellen, och att ta vara på synpunkter, tankar och förändringsförslag som kan bidra till att tydliggöra och förbättra modellen. Det empiriska underlaget består av basuppgifter om 46 av de 56 barn och unga som deltagit i BRA-samtal och läger, intervjuer med 8 av de deltagande barnen, intervjuer och samtal med 11 personer från de 3 pilotverksamheter som ingick i projektet, och samtal med de 2 projektledarna från Barnhuset.Utvecklingsarbetet prövade en modell med följande komponenter: barn och föräldrar får vid ett första samtal tillsammans information om de rättigheter som barnets anhörigskap medför. Barnet erbjuds sen 1-2 enskilda samtal. Om barnet önskar genomförs därefter ytterligare ett samtal tillsammans med föräldern. Efter de enskilda samtalen erbjuds barnet att träffa andra barn med liknande erfarenhet under ett läger en helg eller ett skollov.Utifrån uppgifter om deltagande barn och de insatser som genomförts kan man dra slutsatsen att det är två olika versioner av BRA som prövats i praktiken: ”fullständig-BRA” där modellen har i relativt hög grad prövats utifrån samtliga komponenter och ”mini-BRA” där BRA-insatsen framförallt har bestått av ett inledande informationssamtal och i vissa fall ytterligare ett individuellt samtal. Vidare har de olika versionerna av BRA riktats till delvis olika målgrupper, vilket betyder att BRA-modellen i sin helhet framförallt har prövats på tonårstjejer med erfarenhet av föräldrars psykiska ohälsa, medan yngre flickor och pojkar vars föräldrar har någon typ av somatisk problematik endast tagit del av mini-BRA. Det är endast barn från de verksamheter som åtminstone i några fall prövat fullständig-BRA som kommer till tals i intervjuerna. Sammantaget betyder detta att slutsatserna om hur modellen fungerar för yngre barn och barn till föräldrar med somatiska sjukdomar blir ganska osäkra.Såväl de intervjuade barnens utsagor som det samtalsledarna säger tyder på att när det gäller individdelen av BRA har målsättningarna uppfyllts i hög grad vad gäller att barnen har fått kunskap om sina rättigheter med anledning av förälderns fysiska sjukdom/psykiska störning/missbruk, att de har fått den information de behöver om sin förälders sjukdom/psykiska störning/missbruk, och att de har fått hjälp att uttrycka eventuellt behov av råd och stöd. Både barn och samtalsledare kommenterar också det pedagogiska redskap som används i samtalen och menar att det har varit viktigt och till stor hjälp. Det är dock inte lika tydligt att barnets behov av råd och stöd blivit synliggjort för föräldrar/närstående vuxna, eller att barnet eller familjen vid behov har länkats till personer/verksamheter som kan ge hjälp; råd, stöd, behandling, och så vidare. I synnerhet dessa frågor kan alltså behöva stå i fokus i fortsatt utvecklingsarbete. I och med de begränsningar som finns i materialet om och från de deltagande barnen går det inte att utifrån barnen uttala sig om det är några grupper barn som individdelen av BRA inte fungerar lika bra för. Piloternas tankar om eventuella begränsningar handlar framförallt om att BRA-modellen skulle behöva anpassas till barn med olika former av funktionsnedsättningar och kommunikationssvårigheter. Sammantaget framstår individdelen av modellen som mycket lovande och utifrån de intervjuer som rapporten bygger på kan man tolka det som att BRA-samtal kan stärka barns känsla av sammanhang.Målsättningarna för lägret verkar de ha uppfyllts i mycket hög grad när det gäller att stärka barnen genom att de får träffa andra i samma situation, uppleva gemenskap och dela erfarenheter, bli hörda och få uttrycka sina åsikter, samt att ha kul och lära sig mer om sina rättigheter. Det är mer oklart i vilken lägret bidragit till att barnen fått fler strategier att hantera vardagen som anhörig. De barn som deltagit i ett läger talar alla mycket positivt om den erfarenheten. Mer kritiska synpunkter från barnen handlar - vid sidan om att lägret varit lite för komprimerat tidsmässigt - framförallt om att lägerledarna behöver vara observanta på att det kan vara påfrestande känslomässigt för deltagarna att vara på läger. Ett inslag i lägerprogrammet är inspirerat av norska Forandringsfabrikkens deltagandemodell höringar och i den här delen får barnen möjlighet att som grupp förmedla erfarenheter, goda råd och förslag på förbättringar för anhöriga barn till politiker och beslutsfattare. Att döma av de barn som kommit till tals i intervjuerna var relationen till och utbytet med de andra barnen betydligt viktigare än detta mer barnpolitiska inslag. Barns rätt till att komma till tals också i ett vidare perspektiv verkar inte ha stått högst på agendan för de barn som deltog i lägret. Det kan bland annat ha att göra med att de inte träffat varandra tidigare utan etablerade sina relationer där och då.BRA är en modell som sätter barnets rättigheter i fokus. Arbetet bygger på barns delaktighet och förutsätter de vuxnas lyssnande. De barn som intervjuats bekräftar att det är viktigt att BRA-modellen har barnets rättigheter som utgångspunkt, och man kan tolka barnintervjuerna som att samtalsledarna i hög grad lyckats bidra till att barnen fått mer kunskap om sina rättigheter. Det som för många av pilotverksamhetens medlemmar har varit nytt med BRA-modellen är dels att insatsen riktar sig direkt till barnet och sedan just detta att arbetet utgår från barns rättigheter och delaktighet. Piloterna betonar att det är ett nytt perspektiv de har lärt sig att arbeta utifrån, som ifrågasätter vuxnas tolkningsföreträde. Även utgångspunkten i rätten till information ger ett annat arbetssätt och en mer lyssnande inställning, medan det ”vanliga” sättet att arbeta framstår som tydligare styrt av de professionella. Det kan dock vara en utmaning att arbeta utifrån barns delaktighet och egenmakt inom ramen för relationer som inte är jämlika utan i stället präglas av vuxnas överordning och barns beroende och underordning. En annan utmaning med att arbeta på det här sättet är att rättigheter kan framstå som något ganska abstrakt och att det kan vara svårt att ”översätta” så att det blir möjligt för barn att ta till sig kunskap om sina rättigheter. Ytterligare en utmaning är förknippad med ansatsen att lära barn något. En erfarenhet från pilotomgången är att medan det första individuella samtalet väldigt tydligt har fokus på det enskilda barnet, kan det vid det andra samtalet vara lätt att börja ”undervisa” om rättigheter, så att samtalets innehåll inte kommer lika mycket från barnen själva, och barnen får en lägre grad av delaktighet. Ytterligare en utmaning som piloterna lyfter fram är att det inte är givet att BRA-tanken om barns rättigheter och barns delaktighet också i ett vidare perspektiv får gehör i den egna organisationen eller hos andra samhällsinstanser.En analys av hinder och möjligheter när det gäller tillämpningen av modellen bekräftar väl känd kunskap om betydelsen av såväl organisatorisk förankring och beredskap som ledningsstöd vid implementeringen av nya metoder eller arbetssätt. Det blir också tydligt det kanske ställs särskilda krav på organisatorisk förberedelse om BRA-modellen ska implementeras inom verksamheter med vuxna som primär målgrupp. Det behöver också finnas en grundläggande kunskap i hela organisationen om anhöriga barn och deras rättigheter för att det ska bli möjligt att rekrytera barn till BRA-insatsen. Under utvecklingsarbetet var en utgångspunkt att BRA-modellen ska vara så grundläggande att även av personal som inte är särskilt inriktade på barn ska kunna använda den. Piloterna menar dock att även om modellen är tydlig och enkel ställer exempelvis BRA-samtal krav på den som leder samtalen, och den förutsätter viss vana och erfarenhet att luta sig mot. Den utbildning i modellen piloterna genomgått får genomgående högt betyg, liksom stödet i förberedelse och genomförande av lägren. Kritiska kommentarer handlar mer om olika besked under projektet gång om exempelvis rekrytering till lägret. Det faktum att BRA framställs som en modell kan också vara något av en utmaning för dem som ska omsätta den i praktik, och det ställer krav på handledning från Barnhusets sida. Detta eftersom en del professionella, inte minst inom socialtjänsten, är ovana vid att arbeta manualbaserat. En del piloter uttrycker exempelvis en osäkerhet om de måste följa anvisningarna ”till punkt och pricka” för att de ska genomföra ”riktiga” BRA-samtal. En fråga för det vidare arbetet med BRA är att tydliggöra instruktionen till BRA-samtal och diskutera hur strikt denna måste följas för att det ska vara fråga om just ”BRA: Barns Rätt som Anhöriga”.Helhetsbedömningen blir att detta är ett i många avseenden framgångsrikt utvecklingsarbete. Det material som ligger till grund för analysen tyder på att arbetet med BRA-samtal och läger lyckats uppfylla målsättningarna. Vidare har utvecklingsarbetet resulterat i en modell som framstår som lovande inte bara när det handlar om att informera anhöriga barn om deras rättigheter och kartlägga behov av vidare stöd, utan som även tycks kunna stärka barns känsla av sammanhang. När nu modellen är utvecklad blir det därför angeläget att på allvar pröva den i olika verksamheter, och att studera hur BRA modellen fungerar i jämförelse med andra metoder eller modelle
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Children who "witness" violence as crime victims and changing family law in Sweden
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Ingår i: Journal of Child Custody. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1537-940X .- 1537-9418. ; 7:2, s. 93-116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Changes to the Swedish family law that came into force on the 1st of July 2006 aimed at introducing a more safety oriented approach to custody, contact or residence disputes where there is also a history of domestic violence. In the 1990s, a more gender sensitive and “holistic” approach to violence in intimate relationships was introduced in Sweden. In the wake of these developments, children who see or hear violence to a parent, typically the mother, have increasingly come to be defined as crime victims in their own right. It is argued that these developments are also a key to understanding recent changes in family law and policy on custody, residence or contact more broadly. A feminist framework for understanding violence in heterosexual relationships in combination with the redefinition of children who “witness” violence seem to have created a discursive opportunity structure enabling a shift in focus as regards violent fathers as parents, reaching into the area of family law.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Children's views on children’s participation in family law proceedings
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Drawing upon a Swedish study of vulnerable children as social actors in family law proceedings this paper explores how children themselves approach and negotiate the issue of participation. The discussion is based upon thematically structured interviews with children whose father has been violent to their mother and who have met with social workers in the context of a legal dispute about custody, residence or contact. The analysis reconstructs how these children have dealt with encounters with social workers and to what extent they used the space for action they perceived that they had. What children are doing in this situation – that they all are somehow prepared for– can be seen as intentional at least to some extent. Therefore the concept of strategy seems appropriate: actions and non-action are chosen for a purpose. Children’s strategies are outlined and it is discussed how different child strategies may be linked to children’s perspectives on participation expressed in these interviews, and what these links between children’s perspectives and their strategies can tell us about children’s participation in the context of a difficult life situation. One tentative conclusion that can be drawn from the analysis outlined above is that this empirical material points in the same direction as some previous studies in the field. Children in the sample tend to place less emphasis on shared decision- making and stress the right to decide “for yourself”. This tendency can perhaps be linked to the experience of previous violence and/or oppression by parents (fathers) and /or oppression by social workers. Another observation is that it is children who describe explicit or implicit protest against the ways in which the conversations with them have been carried out, that are the children who almost exclusively draw upon the principle of participation when talking about this issue.
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Children’sviews on children’s participation in family law proceedings : PaperPresented at the 2012 Joint World Conference on Social Work andSocial Development: Action and Impact, Stockholm, Sweden 8-12 July 2012; Symposium 12:Swedish Standing Symposium Social Work Responses to Vulnerable Groups
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Drawing upon a Swedish study of vulnerable children as social actors in family law proceedings this paper explores how children themselves approach and negotiate the issue of participation. The discussion is based upon thematically structured interviews with children whose father has been violent to their mother and who have met with social workers in the context of a legal dispute about custody, residence or contact. The analysis reconstructs how these children have dealt with encounters with social workers and to what extent they used the space for action they perceived that they had. What children are doing in this situation – that they all are somehow prepared for– can be seen as intentional at least to some extent. Therefore the concept of strategy seems appropriate: actions and non-action are chosen for a purpose. Children’s strategies are outlined and it is discussed how different child strategies may be linked to children’s perspectives on participation expressed in these interviews, and what these links between children’s perspectives and their strategies can tell us about children’s participation in the context of a difficult life situation. One tentative conclusion that can be drawn from the analysis outlined above is that this empirical material points in the same direction as some previous studies in the field. Children in the sample tend to place less emphasis on shared decision- making and stress the right to decide “for yourself”. This tendency can perhaps be linked to the experience of previous violence and/or oppression by parents (fathers) and /or oppression by social workers. Another observation is that it is children who describe explicit or implicit protest against the ways in which the conversations with them have been carried out, that are the children who almost exclusively draw upon the principle of participation when talking about this issue.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Contact, Shared Parenting, and Violence : Children as Witnesses of Domestic Violence in Sweden
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Ingår i: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. - : Oxford University Press. - 1360-9939 .- 1464-3707. ; 25:2, s. 165-183
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- As in many other countries in the West, Swedish policy and law presupposes shared parenting and a high degree of parental co-operation after separation or divorce. Parents are expected to share the legal responsibility for the child and face-to-face contact is presumed to be in the best interests of the child. It was not until the new millennium that intimate partner violence was placed upon the policy agenda to any greater extent in the field of family law. The legislation has recently been revised with the aim of ensuring a higher degree of safety for both abused parents and children. The re-definition of children exposed to violence as crime victims seems to be a key to these changes. In many ways, the development regarding intimate partner violence represents a significant change of direction in Swedish policy in the area of family law. However, it is argued that policy makers need to pay more attention to the implementation of safety-oriented reforms. The discussion demonstrates how three social positions available for children in this context – the witness, the victim, and the competent participant – form a relational pattern full of tensions that creates challenges for everyday professional practice. The article highlights how the ambiguity in the perspective on children, constructing them as both ‘becomings’ and ‘beings’ may undermine policy intentions to create a higher degree of safety in the field of family law for this particular group of vulnerable children.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Deltagarnas röster om BRA modellen
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Ingår i: Barns rätt som anhöriga. - Stockholm : Allmänna Barnhuset. - 9789186759179 ; , s. 17-35
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Domesticviolence, family law proceedings, and children’s vulnerability at school
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- While there has been considerable discussion of issues about child protection and the cooperation between school and social services in that context, studies on the intersection between school and family law proceedings seem virtually non-existent. This is also the case when it comes to family law proceedings, school and different forms of childhood adversity. An on-going study aims to fill this gap in knowledge and explores how family law proceedings in cases involving domestic violence impact on school and how school staff tackle the issue of domestic violence and family law. The paper discusses what the practices of family law professionals (social workers investigating the child’s situation) as well as school staff mean for children’s vulnerability and victimization at school. The analysis both concerns the children exposed to violence who are the objects of family law disputes, and the vulnerability of other children at school. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with school staff, individually or in groups (22 interviewees). The analysis shows that children’s vulnerability and victimization can be due both to actions by family law social workers and by school staff. The material includes examples such as children in a class becoming witnesses to one of their peers being collected by social services staff for contact visits with a previously violent parent, in spite of the child trying to resist this; or a previously violent father without right to contact turning up at school and the staff phone the mother (rather than the police), ask her to come to school and deal with the situation, and send the mother and the father – together with the child - from the school premises to resolve the situation. In cases with previous violence, these are quite problematic and dangerous practices. The paper discusses what implications practices like these have not just for the child concerned but also for the children at school more broadly when it comes to children’s sense of security and well-being. Finally, these practices are linked to dominating discourses in the domain of family law and school respectively.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Domesticviolence, family law proceedings, and children’s vulnerability at school : Paper presented at the 26th conference of the Nordic Sociological Association, Trust and Social Change, Reykjavik, 15th to 18th of August 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- While there has been considerable discussion of issues about child protection and the cooperation between school and social services in that context, studies on the intersection between school and family law proceedings seem virtually non-existent. This is also the case when it comes to family law proceedings, school and different forms of childhood adversity. An on-going study aims to fill this gap in knowledge and explores how family law proceedings in cases involving domestic violence impact on school and how school staff tackle the issue of domestic violence and family law. The paper discusses what the practices of family law professionals (social workers investigating the child’s situation) as well as school staff mean for children’s vulnerability and victimization at school. The analysis both concerns the children exposed to violence who are the objects of family law disputes, and the vulnerability of other children at school. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with school staff, individually or in groups (22 interviewees). The analysis shows that children’s vulnerability and victimization can be due both to actions by family law social workers and by school staff. The material includes examples such as children in a class becoming witnesses to one of their peers being collected by social services staff for contact visits with a previously violent parent, in spite of the child trying to resist this; or a previously violent father without right to contact turning up at school and the staff phone the mother (rather than the police), ask her to come to school and deal with the situation, and send the mother and the father – together with the child - from the school premises to resolve the situation. In cases with previous violence, these are quite problematic and dangerous practices. The paper discusses what implications practices like these have not just for the child concerned but also for the children at school more broadly when it comes to children’s sense of security and well-being. Finally, these practices are linked to dominating discourses in the domain of family law and school respectively.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-, et al.
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Family law proceedings, domestic violence and the impact upon school : a neglected area of research
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Ingår i: Children & society. - : Wiley. - 0951-0605 .- 1099-0860. ; 27:2, s. 81-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to open up a discussion about an unexplored area of children’s lives at school. While there has been considerable discussion of issues about child protection and the cooperation between school and social services in that context, studies on the intersection between school and family law proceedings seem virtually non-existent. This is also the case when it comes to family law proceedings and different forms of childhood adversity. Drawing upon previous and ongoing research on family law and domestic violence in Sweden, together with a number of other existing studies on children and domestic violence, this article outlines the potential impact of family law proceedings upon school as well as issues requiring further research exploration.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Gender, family or intersecting relations of power? : on men's violence to women in intimate relationships, parenthood and children
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What now may be called mainstream research on violence to women in intimate relationships fails to fully recognise and theoretically account for the links between gender and other forms of inequality, and their implications for violence in intimate relationships. The need for such an expanded problematisation of gender and violence become apparent when focusing upon the issues of parenthood and children exposed to men’s violence to women in their family. The first part of the presentation outlines a theoretical framework for understanding men’s violence to women in heterosexual relationships where the man and woman are also co-parents, drawing upon the critique of a “pure” gender concept raised by, for example, black feminists and in the debates about “intersectionality”, as well as the theoretical insights within the “new” sociology of childhood. The intersection and interaction between age, gender and kinship is considered crucial for understanding violence in a family setting, as well as for the responses to violence from outside. In the second part of the presentation this framework is set in dialogue with some empirical examples to illustrate the theoretical points made.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Gender, family or intersecting relations of power? On men’s violence to women in intimate relationships, parenthood and children : Semi-plenary presentation at the XVII ISA World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden 11-17 July 2010
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What now may be called mainstream research on violence to women in intimate relationships fails to fully recognise and theoretically account for the links between gender and other forms of inequality, and their implications for violence in intimate relationships. The need for such an expanded problematisation of gender and violence become apparent when focusing upon the issues of parenthood and children exposed to men’s violence to women in their family. The first part of the presentation outlines a theoretical framework for understanding men’s violence to women in heterosexual relationships where the man and woman are also co-parents, drawing upon the critique of a “pure” gender concept raised by, for example, black feminists and in the debates about “intersectionality”, as well as the theoretical insights within the “new” sociology of childhood. The intersection and interaction between age, gender and kinship is considered crucial for understanding violence in a family setting, as well as for the responses to violence from outside. In the second part of the presentation this framework is set in dialogue with some empirical examples to illustrate the theoretical points made.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-, et al.
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Interviews with children exposed to violence
- 2012
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Ingår i: Children & society. - : Wiley. - 0951-0605 .- 1099-0860. ; 26:1, s. 63-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to show how research practices may simultaneously follow principles of children’s citizenship rights to participation and principles of protection and support when children exposed to violence are informants. The article focuses upon organisation of interview processes and interactions between adult researchers and child informants in interview encounters. We point to a number of ways in which one may negotiate the tensions between, on the one hand, victimised children’s vulnerability and dependence upon adults for protection and support, and on the other these children’s agency and rights to participation.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-, et al.
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Intervjuer og barns delaktighet
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Barns stemmer om vold. - Oslo : Gyldendal Akademisk. - 9788205395046 ; , s. 49-70
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Justice or welfare? : Nordic women's shelters and children's rights organizations on children exposed to violence
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. - : Taylor and Francis. - 1404-3858 .- 1651-2340. ; 11:1, s. 66-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Efforts to promote the protection of, and support to, abused women have opened up new understandings concerning children who see, hear or in other ways are exposed to men’s violence against women and its consequences. On the basis of a redefinition of children exposed to violence into children subjected to violence, some important policy changes have recently been made in the Nordic countries as regards children’s status as crime victims. To enable a better understanding of the context of such changes in policy, this article explores the extent to which Nordic women’s shelter/crisis centre organisations and children’s rights organisations draw upon a justice discourse in relation to the issue of children exposed to violence. The analysis is based upon a study of ten organisations working at a national level in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Mothers as a vulnerable group of women subjected to violence
- 2014
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Ingår i: Social Dialogue. Free Magazine of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. - : the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). - 2221-352X. ; 3:8, s. 10-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Violence against women is a social problem that affects all groups of women in society. Although violence is a general problem in this sense, some groups of women are more vulnerable to violence and find themselves in a more difficult situation when subjected to it. Vulnerability can both be an issue of an increased risk for violence or specific forms of violence, and a lack of knowledge and inadequate responses to some women and their needs from practitioners. In policy debates and in the literature “special” forms of vulnerability are often discussed as issues of addiction, disability, ethnic minority or immigrant status, mental health problems, prostitution and trafficking, violence in same-sex relationships, or old age. This article argues that we also need to recognize the vulnerability of abused women who are also mothers, and critically explore how expectations on mothers and (good enough) motherhood may contribute to a special form of vulnerability.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-, et al.
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Negotiating participation : Vulnerable children in family law proceedings
- 2010
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the XVII ISA World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden 11-17 July 2010. ; , s. 134-134
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Drawing upon a Swedish study of vulnerable children as social actors in family law proceedings this paper explores how children themselves approach and negotiate the issue of participation. The discussion is based upon thematically structured interviews with children whose father has been violent to their mother and who have met with social workers in the context of a legal dispute about custody, residence or contact. The analysis reconstructs how these children have dealt with encounters with social workers and to what extent they used the space for action they perceived that they had. What children are doing in this situation – that they all are somehow prepared for– can be seen as intentional at least to some extent. Therefore the concept of strategy seems appropriate: actions and non-action are chosen for a purpose. Children’s strategies are outlined and it is discussed how different child strategies may be linked to children’s perspectives on participation expressed in these interviews, and what these links between children’s perspectives and their strategies can tell us about children’s participation in the context of a difficult life situation.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Participation for children exposed to domestic violence? : Social workers’ approaches and children’s strategies
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - Abingdon : OUP. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 15:2, s. 205-221
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores social workers’ approaches to children exposed to domestic violence and children’s strategies in encounters with these professionals in the context of family law proceedings. Investigator approaches as well as child strategies are reconstructed from children’s narratives. Furthermore, possible links between the social worker’s approach described by a particular child, and the child’s own strategies are outlined. Participation can offer children validation of their experiences and support their recovery after exposure to violence. However, it is suggested that it seems to be a challenging task for social workers to both validate children’s experiences of violence and simultaneously offer them participation in the investigation process.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Professionalism or ageism? : social worker approaches to children exposed to intimate partner violence
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The paper outlines social positions and age related inequality in encounters between Swedish social workers specialized in family law, and children exposed to intimatepartner violence. The discussion draws upon qualitative, semi-structuredinterviews with 17 children, ages 8 to 17, exploring how children with a fatherwho is or has been violent to their mother, experience and manage encounters withthis group of social workers. Participation in family law proceedings can offer children validation of their experiences and support their recovery after exposure to violence. However, it seems to be a challenging task for social workers to both validate children’s experiences of violence and simultaneously offer them participation in the investigation process. Furthermore, some socialworker approaches constitute ageism towards children. The analysis was carriedout in two steps: firstly, social worker approaches to children were reconstructed from children’s narratives. From these follows the position ascribed to the child, the degree and different dimensions of participation, as well as opportunities for validation of children’s experiences of violence. Thenext step was to link the different child positions to adult positions. Drawingupon the theoretical claim from childhood sociology that child and adult are social positions internally related to each other, it is argued that the different child positions emerging from children’s narratives give insight also into different adult positions available to social workers in this context, as well as age related inequality between adult social workers and child service users. In relation to children’s participation, three different adult positions could be found: child-oriented participant, care person, and someone exercising paternalism without care. While the first position implies an equal child-adultrelationship, the two latter imply dominant adults and children as objects ofcare or of paternalism. In relation to children’s experiences of violence four positions were found: a protector – also from talking about violence - someonein denial of the child’s vulnerability, someone indifferent, and a helper. Itis only in the last case that the adult in question is validating the child’s experiences. The paper ends with a discussion about how the different adultpositions can be linked to constructions of professionalism and traditions within social work more broadly
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Professionalism or ageism? Social worker approaches to children exposed to intimate partner violence : Paper presented at the 2012 Joint WorldConference on Social Work and Social Development: Action and Impact, Stockholm, Sweden 8-12 July 2012
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The paper outlines social positions and age related inequality in encounters between Swedish social workers specialized in family law, and children exposed to intimatepartner violence. The discussion draws upon qualitative, semi-structuredinterviews with 17 children, ages 8 to 17, exploring how children with a fatherwho is or has been violent to their mother, experience and manage encounters withthis group of social workers. Participation in family law proceedings can offer children validation of their experiences and support their recovery after exposure to violence. However, it seems to be a challenging task for social workers to both validate children’s experiences of violence and simultaneously offer them participation in the investigation process. Furthermore, some socialworker approaches constitute ageism towards children. The analysis was carriedout in two steps: firstly, social worker approaches to children were reconstructed from children’s narratives. From these follows the position ascribed to the child, the degree and different dimensions of participation, as well as opportunities for validation of children’s experiences of violence. Thenext step was to link the different child positions to adult positions. Drawingupon the theoretical claim from childhood sociology that child and adult are social positions internally related to each other, it is argued that the different child positions emerging from children’s narratives give insight also into different adult positions available to social workers in this context, as well as age related inequality between adult social workers and child service users. In relation to children’s participation, three different adult positions could be found: child-oriented participant, care person, and someone exercising paternalism without care. While the first position implies an equal child-adultrelationship, the two latter imply dominant adults and children as objects ofcare or of paternalism. In relation to children’s experiences of violence four positions were found: a protector – also from talking about violence - someonein denial of the child’s vulnerability, someone indifferent, and a helper. Itis only in the last case that the adult in question is validating the child’s experiences. The paper ends with a discussion about how the different adultpositions can be linked to constructions of professionalism and traditions within social work more broadly
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- Eriksson, Malin, 1969-, et al.
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Social capital, gender and educational level : impact on self-rated health
- 2010
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Ingår i: The Open Public Health Journal. - : Bentham Science Publishers. - 1874-9445. ; 3, s. 1-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: Social capital has been recognized as one important social determinant for health, but we still have limited knowledge about how it can be used to explain inequality in health. This study investigated the links between individual social capital and self-rated health by gender and educational level, and analyzed if access to social capital might explain the observed disparities in self-rated health between men and women and different educational groups. Study design: A cross-sectional survey in Northern Sweden. Methods: A social capital questionnaire was constructed and mailed to 15 000 randomly selected individuals. Different forms of structural and cognitive social capital were measured. Self-rated health was used as the outcome measure. Crude and adjusted OR and 95% CI were calculated for good selfrated health and access to each form of social capital. Multivariate regression was used to analyze how sociodemographic factors and access to social capital might influence differences in self-rated health by gender and educational level. Results: Access to almost each form of social capital significantly increased the odds for good self-rated health for all groups. A higher education significantly increased the odds for access to each form of social capital, and being a man significantly increased the odds for having access to some forms of social capital. The health advantage for higher educated and men partly decreased when controlling for access to social capital. Conclusions: Access to social capital can partly explain the observed health inequality between men and women and different educational groups. Strengthening social capital might be one way of tackling health inequality. It is important to consider the structural conditions that create unequal opportunities for different groups to access social capital.
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- Eriksson, Malin, 1969-
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Social capital, health and community action : implications for health promotion
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background; The overwhelming increase in studies about social capital and health occurring since 1995 indicates a renewed interest in the social determinants of health and a call for a more explicit use of theory in public health and epidemiology. The links between social capital and health are still not clear and the meanings of different forms of individual and collective social capital and their implications for health promotion needs further exploration. The overall aims of this thesis are to explore the relationship between social capital and health and to contribute to the theoretical framework of the role of social capital for health and health promotion.Methods; Data from a social capital survey were used to investigate the associations between individual social capital and self-rated health for men and women and different educational groups. Survey data were also analyzed to determine the association between collective social capital and self-rated health for men and women. A qualitative case study in a small community with observed high levels of civic engagement formed the basis for exploring the role of social capital for community action. Data from the same study were utilized for a grounded theory situational analysis of the social mechanisms leading to social capital mobilization.Main findings; Access to individual social capital increases the odds for good self-rated health equally for men and women and different educational groups. However, the likelihood of having access to social capital differs between groups. The results indicate a positive association between collective social capital and self-rated health for women but not for men. Results from the qualitative case study illustrate how social capital in local communities can facilitate collective actions for public good but may also increase social inequality. Mobilizing social capital in local communities requires identification of community issues that call for action, a fighting spirit from trusted local leaders, “know-how” from creative entrepreneurs, and broad legitimacy and support in the community.Conclusions; This thesis supports the idea that individual social capital is health-enhancing and that strengthening individual social capital can be considered one important health promotion strategy. Collective social capital may have a positive effect on self-rated health for women but not for men and therefore mobilizing collective social capital might be more health-enhancing for women. Collective social capital may have indirect positive effects on health for all by facilitating the ability of communities to solve collective health problems. However, mobilizing social capital in local communities requires an awareness of the risk for increased social inequality.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Tackling violence in intimacy : Interacting power relations and policy change
- 2013
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Ingår i: Current Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0011-3921 .- 1461-7064. ; 61:2, s. 171-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the article is to discuss interacting power relations and policy change. Children’s exposure to intimate partner violence and policy change in Sweden is the empirical case in point. It is argued that to understand the shift in Swedish policy as regards exposure to intimate partner violence it is important to recognize, on the one hand, the social order shaping policy and practice, and, on the other hand, the role of collective and individual actors in the field as well as the opportunity structure that enables social change. Furthermore, subordinating children to adults comes across as a particularly potent way of challenging gendered inequality in the form of men’s violence against women in intimate relationships. Possibilities for social change thus seem to be greater in relation to gender, than age. An empirically sensitive and actor-centred intersectional analysis must be sophisticated enough to grasp complexities such as these if we are to be able to fully understand agency and policy change within a complex social order.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Utsatta barns perspektiv på delaktighet i familjerättsprocesser : Paper presenterat vid FORSA Symposium, Norrköping 30-31 mars 2011
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur ser utsatta barn på barns delaktighet? Vad tycker och tänker de om sin egen situation och om delaktighet för barn generellt? Presentationen bygger på intervjuer med 17 barn, 8-17 år, som upplevt pappas våld mot mamma och gått igenom en familjerättslig utredning. I fokus står frågan om vilka dimensioner av delaktighet barninformanterna fokuserar: att barn får information, att barn konsulteras, att barn får varamed och fatta beslut respektive att det finns utrymme för barns eget initiativtagande. Vidare undersöks i vilken grad barnens åsikter om delaktighet är färgade av ett omsorgsperspektiv på barn, som fokuserar barns beroende och utsatthet, och i vilken grad barnens åsikter är färgade av ett delaktighetsperspektiv där barns aktörskap och rätt till inflytande är centralt. Resultatet pekar på att rättenatt få vara med och bestämma kan vara viktigare för utsatta barn än barn i allmänhet.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Vuxna-finns de? : Paper presenterat vid Sociologförbundets årsmöte, Stockholm, 15-17 mars 2012, workshop om ålder och makt
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rubriken är en parafras på statsvetaren Maud Eduardsartikel ”Män – finns de?” där hon diskuterar det politiskt och teoretiskt intressanta att inom politiken könsbestäms ofta kvinnor medan det samma integäller för män. På liknande sätt kan man hävda att inom sociologin åldersbestäms ofta barn, men inte vuxna. Barn pekas ut och diskuteras utifråndet faktum att de är just barn, medan vuxenheten tas för given. I sociologins mittfåra är vuxna både en given utgångspunkt och samtidigt märkligt frånvarande: de problematiseras inte som vuxna. Trots att forskningsfält som barndomsforskning, ungdomsforskning och socialgerontologi länge problematiserat ålder och på olika sätt kritiskt diskuterat en ”medelåldersnorm”, saknas idag en motsvarighet tillkritiska studier av män och maskulinitet, queerstudier och kritik avheteronormen eller kritiska studier av vithet. I papret argumenteras för att ”kritiska vuxenstudier” behövs och med hjälp av två empiriska exempel - frånfamiljerättsutredares möten med barn som upplevt våld respektive förhållningssätt till våldsutövande fäder - visas hur en explicit problematiseringav olika vuxenpositioner kan bidra till en analys av exempelvis makt och professionalitetskonstruktioner respektive föräldraskap.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-, et al.
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Å møte utsatte barn : som ofre og aktører
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Barns stemmer om vold. - Oslo : Gyldendal Akademisk. - 9788205395046 ; , s. 92-109
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Föräldraskapets politik : från 1900- till 2000-tal
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under de senaste hundra åren har betydelsen av goda familjeförhållanden och gott föräldraskap betonats allt mer i debatt och politik. Men vad utgör ett gott föräldraskap, och hur skapas goda mödrar och fäder? Svaret på dessa frågor förändrats under det senaste seklet. Såväl föräldraskapet självt som försöken att påverka det genomgår ständiga förändringar. Adoptionsutredningar, assisterad befruktning för lesbiska par samt föräldrars engagemang i sina barns skolgång är några av de frågor som i boken får belysa samhällsutvecklingen. Att vara förälder till ett barn kan tyckas vara en naturlig och ursprunglig relation, men påverkas i högsta grad av tid, plats och sociala villkor. Bokens författare är historiker och samhällsvetare verksamma vid olika universitet och högskolor runt om i Sverige.
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- Ljungqvist, Johan, et al.
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Longitudinal study of the diffusion tensor imaging properties of the corpus callosum in acute and chronic diffuse axonal injury.
- 2011
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Ingår i: Brain injury. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1362-301X .- 0269-9052. ; 25:4, s. 370-378
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (MR-DTI) is used increasingly to detect diffuse axonal injury (DAI) after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Primary objective: The primary objective was to investigate the changes in the diffusion properties of the corpus callosum in the acute phase and 6 months after TBI and to examine the correlation between DTI parameters and clinical outcome. Research design: Longitudinal prospective study. Methods and procedures: MR-DTI was performed in eight patients with suspected DAI within 11 days and at 6 months post-injury. Six controls were also examined. Fractional anisotropy (FA), trace and parallel and perpendicular diffusivity of the corpus callosum were analysed. The main outcome was the extended Glasgow Outcome Scale score, assessed at 6 months. Main outcomes and results: A significant reduction in FA in the corpus callosum was seen in the acute phase in patients compared with the healthy controls. There was no significant change in the parallel or perpendicular eigenvalues or trace. At 6 months, a significant reduction in FA and a significant increase in trace and perpendicular eigenvalues were noticed compared with controls. Conclusions: The diffusion properties of the corpus callosum correlated with clinical outcome in this longitudinal investigation.
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- Näsman, Elisabet, et al.
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Perspektiver på barns stemmer om vold
- 2010
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Ingår i: Barns stemmer om vold. - Oslo : Gyldendal Akademisk. - 9788205395046 ; , s. 19-32
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