The aim of this study was to explore how women in social work experience the equality in their workplace, and their experience of an unequal gender distribution. To answer this, a qualitative method was used, and four individual interviews were conducted. At the time of the study all four interviewees worked as social workers in medium sized municipalities in the middle of Sweden. Yvonne Hirdman’s theory on gender systems, Joan Ackers theory on gender regimes and the theory of homo- and heterosociality were used for the analysis. The result of the study showed that the interviewees considered their place of work to be equal between men and women but at the same time described differences between male and female coworkers. It appeared that there were mainly structural factors that seemed undetectable, like norms, values and stereotypes, that contributed to the gender difference and inequality between genders in the workplaces. These structural differences were only detectable when critically examining the concrete experiences the interviewees talked about. In conclusion, there were some structural patterns that contributed to a gender difference and therefor an inequality between genders in the workplaces, at the same time, the interviewees mentioned factors that contributed to gender equality in the workplaces. What this essay illustrated is women’s perspective and concrete experiences of gender differences and gender equality and inequality. / Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur kvinnor inom socialtjänsten upplever jämställdheten på deras arbetsplats, och deras erfarenheter av en ojämn könsfördelning. För att besvara detta användes kvalitativ metod och fyra individuella intervjuer utfördes. När intervjuerna utfördes så jobbade kvinnorna inom socialtjänsten i medelstora kommuner i mellansverige. Som teoretiskt ramverk har främst både Yvonne Hirdmans teori om genussystem och Joan Ackers teori om genusregim används, men även teorin om homo- och heterosocialitet använts. Resultatet av studien visade att kvinnliga socialsekreterare ansåg arbetsplatsen de jobbade på som jämställd samtidigt som de nämnde de erfarenheter som tydde på skillnader mellan manliga och kvinnliga kollegorna. Det framkom att det främst var strukturella faktorer som verkade osynliga, som normer, värderingar och stereotypa, som bidrog till en könsskillnad och ojämställdhet på arbetsplatserna. Dessa strukturella ojämlikheter blev bara synliga när man kritiskt granskade de konkreta erfarenheter som intervjupersonerna berättade om. Slutsatsen var att det framkom vissa strukturella mönster som bidrog till en könsskillnad och därmed ojämställdhet på arbetsplatserna, samtidigt som intervjupersonerna även nämnde faktorer som bidrar till jämställdhet på arbetsplatserna. Det uppsatsen har belyst är kvinnornas perspektiv och konkreta erfarenheter om könsskillnader, och grad av jämställdhet och ojämställdhet.

The aim of the study was to examine how social workers investigate and assess addiction cases whether gender matters or not. The following questions were asked in the study;•Does the gender of the client influence whether a case is opened after the first meeting at the Addiction Unit?•Do social workers consider there is a difference in handling an addiction treatment investigation when the client is a man or a woman? •Do divergences exist in the assessment and the final decision process when the case concerns a man or a woman?The study is based on the qualitative method. The material is gathered from semi-structured interviews with social workers. Their job tasks include assessment and evaluation of addiction cases. The empiric interview material has been analyzed from a gender perspective. The results show that the social workers unanimously agree; the gender does not affect the investigation, assessment and whether a case is opened or not when a client asks for addiction treatment. The social workers almost agree; it is primarily the client’s point of view and treatment needs that decide the focus in the investigation, assessment and decision. However, gender may influence the selection of available treatments for the individual client. According to two social workers gender may influence reception, how the social workers at the Units talk about their clients, the severity and need.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur könstillhörighet hos individer i missbruk kan påverkasocialarbetares bemötande av klienten och bedömning av behandling. För att besvara syftetanvändes en kvalitativ metod i form av intervjuer med tio respondenter. Empirin analyseradesgenom kvalitativ innehållsanalys och de teoretiska begreppen “Göra kön”,socialkonstruktivism och genusbias. Resultatet av studien visade att socialarbetare finner attdet förekommer skillnader i bemötande och bedömning av klienters behov utifrån deraskönstillhörighet och genus. Respondenterna observerade män och kvinnor på olika sätt utifrånnormativa och stereotypiska förutfattade meningar, kopplade till individens genus vilket leddetill olika bedömningar och synliggörande av behov. Detta bidrog till den utmaningsocialarbetare finner i sitt arbete, att bemöta och behandla klienter lika och samtidigtindividbaserat. Studiens slutsats var att det finns ett behov av att se över forskning ochinformation gällande hur klienters könstillhörighet och genus påverkar det bemötande och den vård de får tillgång till. / The purpose of this study was to examine how social workers perceived the treatment andformation of addictioncare changed based on the clients’ gender. To answer the purpose thestudy used a qualitative method in the form of interviews with ten participants. The collecteddata was analyzed through a qualitative analysis and the theoretical concepts “Doing gender”,social constructivism and genusbias. The result of the study showed that social workers founddifferences in treatment and formation of addictioncare based on the clients’s gender and sex.The participants found that women and men could be perceived differently based on normativeand stereotypical preconceptions, linked to the gender of the individual, which led to differenttreatments and assumptions of needs. This furthermore contributed to the challenge that socialworkers found, to treat clients’ equal and individualized. The conclusion of the study was thatthere is a need to look over research and information regarding how the gender of clients’within addictioncare affects the treatment and care they get access to.

This is a qualitative study based on semi-structured, open interviews with three social workers whose tasks involve taking decisive decisions regarding children. The purpose of the study is to investigate social workers' experiences of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) into Swedish law and how it affects their work after the incorporation of 2020. The purpose of the incorporation was that all the changes should be in benefit for children's participation. And that the CRC should focus on the workof social workers, with demands and responsibilities. The incorporation has so far proven tobe positive. The social workers have presented various programs and support materials forthe social workers in order to facilitate full use of the Convention on the Rights of the Childin children's investigations. Overall, my findings suggest that the incorporation of CRC into Swedish law has affected social workers' practices due to the fact that children’s human rights are taking a more prominent position.

Previous research has shown that juvenile delinquency is a major social problem today. It is a problem that can ruin and jeopardize the youth and their future. Instead of studying, they commit criminal acts and ruin their lives and potentially their families lives as well. Therefore prevention is a very important part of preventing young children from committing criminal acts. This work deals with social workers' perspectives on juvenile delinquency. What risk and protective factors there are and how they experience the social services' efforts against juvenile delinquency. Are the interventions effective? or counterproductive? The method for this work is qualitative and consists of six interviews with six different social workers from different organizations. It is interesting to find out the perspective of social workers on this problem. Because you often hear politicians' and criminologists' perspectives on this, but rarely social workers' perspectives. The theory that we applied to this work is the labeling theory as it focuses on the individual. The results of this study showed that a good attachment to the parents, a good schooling and a leisure time with adult supervision are very important protective factors against juvenile delinquency. Having an adult in your surroundings that the young people look up to is a great protective factor. The risk factors turned out to be that the adolescent does not have a good relationship with the parents or that there is a bad environment at home. Poor schooling and leisure time without adult supervision showed that young people are at risk at this stage. To solve this problem in the best possible way, collaboration with several actors in society is the best solution as juvenile delinquency is a complex phenomenon.

Den här uppsatsen är en kvalitativ studie som undersöker vilka faktorer som är hindrande respektive drivande hos personer som väljer ett yrke som går mot könsstereotypen. I studien intervjuas 2 män som valt att utbilda sig till socionomer och 4 kvinnor som valt att utbilda sig till ingenjörer. Dessa yrken har valts eftersom det finns en tydlig dominans av ett kön inom dessa yrken. Intervjuerna har varit semistrukturerade och har analyserats tematiskt. De teman som har framkommit är sammanhang, karriär, arbetsmiljö, meningsfullt, hinder och själv förmåga. Gemensamma drivande faktorer för båda yrkesgrupperna är ett stort eget intresse och ett stöd från omgivningen. Hindrade faktorer är att könsstereotypen inte stämmer överens för de attityder som förknippas med yrket samt att omgivningen kan uttrycka oförståelse inför yrkesvalet. Studien visar att förutsättningarna för kvinnor inom ingenjörsyrket har ändrats mer än för männen inom socionomyrket gällande könsfördelning och attityder på arbetsmarknaden. / This essay is a qualitative study that examines the factors that are hindering and driving in people who choose a profession that goes against the gender stereotype. In the study, 2 men who have chosen to train as social workers and 4 women who have chosen to train as engineers are interviewed. These professions have been chosen because there is a clear dominance of one gender in these professions. The interviews have been semi-structured, and the interviews have been analyzed thematically. The themes that have emerged are context, career, work environment, meaningful, obstacles and self-efficacy. Common driving factors for both professions are a great deal of self-interest and support from the environment. Hindered factors are that the gender stereotype does not match the attitudes associated with the profession and that the environment may express incomprehension before the choice of profession.  The study shows that the conditions for women in the engineering profession have changed more than for men in the social work profession regarding gender distribution and attitudes in the labor market.

[pt] Essa pesquisa aborda Assistência Social e Filantropia a partir da discussão sobre legislação e reordenamento. Mais especificamente, se buscou o aprofundamento do debate acerca da filantropia no contexto católico, correlacionando o campo teórico à experiência profissional, com o objetivo de compreender o reordenamento das Entidades de Assistência Social, com caráter religioso católico, aos atuais marcos regulatórios da Assistência Social, a partir da experiência de assessoramento da Arquidiocese de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro. As entidades filantrópicas são protagonistas no desenvolvimento da assistência no Brasil, e após a promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988 (CF/88), foi previsto que o Estado tem a principal responsabilidade no provimento do que garante a Assistência Social. Planejamos essa pesquisa com base na experiência de assessoria realizada pela equipe de Serviço Social da Arquidiocese do Rio de Janeiro, no intuito de maiores aproximações aos marcos regulatórios do SUAS – Sistema Único de Assistência Social. Para guiar o aprofundamento da temática buscou-se alcançar os seguintes objetivos: analisar as mudanças na prestação de serviços em Entidades de Assistência Social, assessoradas pelo Serviço Social da Arquidiocese de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, após a implementação da Lei número 12.101/2009; analisar como os assistentes sociais e gestores qualificam o reordenamento das Entidades de Assistência Social; identificar as especificidades das Entidades de Assistência Social enquanto entidades de matriz religiosa católica sob a perspectiva do assistente social; identificar os desafios vivenciados e estratégias desenvolvidas pelo Serviço Social durante o processo de reordenamento. / [en] This research adresses Social Assistance, Philanthropy from the discussion about legislation and reorganization. More specifically, we sought to deepen the debate about philanthropy in the Catholic context, correlating the theoretical field with professional experience, with the objective of understanding the reorganization of Social Welfare Entities, with a Catholic religious character, to the current regulatory frameworks of Social Assistance, based on the advisory experience of the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro. Philanthropic institutions are protagonists in the development of care in Brazil, and after the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988 (CF / 88), it was foreseen that the State has the main responsibility for providing Social Assistance. We plan this research based on the advisory experience carried out by the Social Service team of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, in order to better approximate the regulatory frameworks of SUAS - Sistema Único de Assistência Social. In order to guide the deepening of the thematic, the following objectives were pursued: to analyze the changes in the provision of services in Social Welfare Entities, assisted by the Social Work of the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, after the implementation of Law no. 12.101/2009; analyze how the social workers and managers qualify the reorganization of the Social Assistance Entities; to identify the specificities of Social Welfare Entities as Catholic religious institutions under the perspective of the social worker; identify the challenges experienced and strategies developed by the Social Service during the reordering process.

This thesis focuses on the personality of social workers and their view of the quality of the nursing home in which they work . The first part is generally concerned with quality, problems caused by the quality implementation, different views of quality evaluation and finally with quality evaluation by social workers themselves. The second part is dedicated to research performed by interviewing the social wor-kers working in retirement homes and subsequently comparing the results with the theo-ry.

The diploma thesis deals with the possibilities of implementation of school social work to the elementary schools in the Czech Republic. In the introduction, the thesis focuses on general inside of issues of school social work and the role of school social worker is characterized here. It also focuses on possible problems with implementation of school social work. In the next part, the diploma thesis deals with the practice of school social work in foreign countries and also with the current state of school counseling in the Czech Republic. Diploma thesis also focuses on legislative system and it suggests the possible future form of school social work in the Czech Republic. The conclusion outlines the proposal of specialized education program for school social workers in the Czech Republic.

This study aimed to investigate the role, possibilities, challenges and emotional labor of Healthcare Counselors in pediatric palliative care. Through semi-structured interviews with five counselors, a thematic analysis was conducted. The findings reveal a broad and dynamic role, partially unclear, allowing individual shaping. Additionally, the study highlights counselors' capacity to support families during severe crises and discussions about end-of-life matters. The work is both meaningful and emotionally challenging, and coping theory illustrates how counselors manage their emotions using problem-focused and emotional coping strategies. The conclusions emphasize the relevance for counselors, collaboratingprofessions and management in pediatric palliative care.