The purpose of this study is to investigate social workers' experience in meeting men who are victims of domestic violence by women. Through this study we want to acquire an in-depth understanding of how social norms of gender and masculinity have an impact on domestic violence by women as well as its impact on social workers in their treatment of the abused men. The methodological starting point of this study is based on a hermeneutic qualitative approach where empirical data have been obtained through semi-structured interviews. The interviews were conducted with six social workers who all come in contact with domestic violence through their work. Results from this study show that the norms of gender and masculinity which exist in our society do affect the view of men and manhood and it affects the view on women’s violence and violence in general. It also affects how the social workers treat men who are victims of domestic abuse by women. The result of this is that men feel a lot of shame about being victims of domestic abuse hence making it hard to reach them in efforts to help. Our conclusion is that social workers need to learn more about how norms of gender and masculinity affect what the men are feeling and hence find ways to treat these men without shame interfering in that treatment.

VACULIKOVA, K. The profession of social worker in selected states of the USA. Prague: Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, 2012. 109 pp. Diploma thesis. The goal of this diploma thesis is to introduce the profession of social worker in selected U.S. states - State of California, State of Iowa, State of New York, and State of Texas. In order to achieve the goal, the thesis first discusses the development and professionalization of social work, the values and ethics within the profession, the forms of the profession regulation and the scope of social work practice in the overall context of the U.S. Subsequently, it describes the specifics of social work profession in the selected states, including geographic and demographic description that significantly influences the focus of social work in each state. In a separate chapter, several aspects of the social work profession in the U.S. and the Czech Republic are compared. The thesis also presents the results of previous research on the public perception of the social work profession in the U.S. The follow-up research part uses the comparative analysis method and determines whether the social workers in the U.S. have realistic notions on the public perception of the social work profession in the U.S. and whether the public perception of the...

This thesis concerns repeated returns of homeless people to social services. The theoretical part focuses on the description and the problem areas of homeless people, cultural-historical development of homelessness in Czech lands - defines the term of social services and discusses the model of work with the target group in Poland. At the end of the theoretical part a Center for homeless people the Bohuslav Bures social services center (BBSSC) Salvation Army is presented, in this way methods of work with the target group are demonstrated, the way of keeping documentation is described and the analysis of the shelter home relevant to the theme of the work are publicized. The research carried out in the practical part looks for factors which have caused the return of the former users of social services. For the purposes of the work the phenomenon of returning is studied in persons, who in the period of 2007 - April 2012 used a shelter home in BBSSC in Salvation Army, left for commercial housing and after their departure they come back to BBSSC within one year as candidates for a social service. In order to find this information semi- standardized interviews were held and analysis of the data was carried out (a study of documentation of personal files). This work finds out the factors which might have...

The purpose of this study is to examine how social workers work in order to enable children and young people's participation during a child protection investigation and how they experience the Convention on the Rights of the Child have changed the conditions of their work. To address the aim of the study, we have interviewed five social workers who work with children and young people at the social services office in four different municipalities in Stockholm county. To analyze the empirical data, we have used two theoretical frameworks; Shier’s Pathways to Participation and New Institutional Theory of Organizations. The results of this study indicate that social workers find it hard to define children and young people's participation, which leads to different ways of working. There are obstacles such as a parental focus and organizational conditions, such as time constraints, workload and budget cuts, which complicate social workers' work with children and young people's participation. Furthermore, we find that the Convention on the Right of the Child as a law has not had a major impact on social workers' practical work with children and young people's participation in child protection investigations.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka socialarbetares position genom deras upplevelser av hur lagstiftning, kommunala riktlinjer samt egna värderingar harmonierar i arbetet med missbruksärenden. I studien besvaras frågor gällande hur socialarbetare upplever att deras värderingar och kompetens harmonierar med lagstiftning och kommunala riktlinjer men även hur socialarbetare hanterar eventuella spänningsförhållanden mellan lagstiftning, kommunala riktlinjer, egna värderingar samt klienters förväntningar. Uppsatsen bygger på sex semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialarbetare som i sitt dagliga arbete handlägger missbruksärenden och det insamlade materialet analyserades med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Studiens resultat ger inte en lika negativ bild av socialarbetarnas upplevelser som tidigare forskning pekar på. Studien visar att socialarbetare upplever olika situationer där deras värderingar inte överensstämmer med kommunala riktlinjer eller lagstiftning. Exempel på situationer där socialarbetare upplever konflikter är hög arbetsbelastning, begränsat handlingsutrymme samt den rådande tvångslagstiftningen gällande missbruk. Beroende på vilken motstridighet som upplevs varierar hanteringen av denna. Hanteringen av motstridigheterna handlar i denna studie om hur socialarbetaren i situationen väljer att agera genom att exempelvis vara lojal och anpassa sig, protestera i någon form eller det sista alternativet, göra en sorti, vilket innebär att man lämnar organisationen. / The purpose of the study is to examine the position of social workers through their experiences of how legislation, municipal guidelines and their own values ​​harmonize in the work with substance abuse cases. The study answers questions not only regarding how social workers feel about their values ​​and skills harmonizing with legislation and municipal guidelines, but also how social workers handle any tensions between legislation, municipal guidelines, their own values ​​and clients' expectations. The essay is based on six semi-structured interviews with social workers who in their daily work handle substance abuse cases and the collected material was analyzed with the help of a qualitative content analysis. The results of the study do not give us a negative picture of the social workers' experiences as previous research points out. The study shows that social workers experience different situations where their values ​​do not comply with municipal guidelines or legislation. Examples of situations where social workers experience conflicts are a high workload, limited room for maneuver and the current coercive legislation regarding abuse. Depending on the contradiction experienced, the handling of this varies. The management of the contradictions in this study is about how the social worker in the situation chooses to act by, for example, being loyal and adapting, protesting in some form or the last alternative, making a sortie, which means leaving the organization.

(in English): My diploma work is specifically focused on social workers' task who tried the most to give help and support to tuberculous people and their families between 1930 and 1945. The target of this diploma thesis is to capturing a description of social work activities in the treatment of tuberculosis in our country in years 1930-1945, through the magazine called The Fight Against Tuberculosis published by the Masaryk league against tuberculosis This nagazine dealt with this illness and everything which was related with it. Theoretical part defines key terms like social work, tuberculosis, special depatments focused on treatment of tuberculosis. Other part of work specifically describes history of social workers'education, their practise, social work with families and as well as multidisciplinary cooperation. My work contains practical part too. It is about content analysis.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa en djupare förståelse för vilket stöd som socialarbetare inom socialtjänsten får vid hot och våldssituationer på arbetsplatsen i relation till de stöd som socialarbetare tycker att de behöver. Det är viktigt att undersöka då kunskapen kan bidra till diskussion om socialarbetare får adekvat stöd i arbetsmiljöer där hot och våld är närvarande. Intresset har varit att undersöka om socialarbetaren får rätt stöd i hot och våldssituationer. Studien baseras på sjukvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialarbetare inom Sveriges socialtjänst. En tematisk analys har genomförts för att bearbeta den insamlade empirin. Empirin har också analyserats utifrån tidigare forskning och två olika teorier, coping och human relations. Studien visar att socialarbetarna någon gång i yrket utsatts för hot och våld och att de subtila hoten förekommer mer frekvent än andra hot och våldshandlingar. Samtliga deltagare beskriver att de idag har ett bra stöd när incidenter om hot och våld inträffar på arbetsplatsen men att det finns en del stöd som kan utvecklas. Stödet de vill se mer av vid hot och våldssituationer är bland annat: förebyggande rutiner, stående punkter om hot och våld på arbetsplatsträffar, handledning, att chef har inblick i ärenden och ger återkoppling, bättre introduktion inför arbetet gällande hot och våld på arbetsplatsen och mer dialog om ämnet då hot och våld inte sällan normaliseras i det sociala arbetet. Gemensamt för socialarbetarna är att de vill se politikerna ta ansvar i frågan om hot och våldsbilden mot socialarbetare. / The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the support that social workers in the social services receive in situations involving threats and violence at the workplace in relation to the support that social workers feel they need. It is important to investigate this topic as the knowledge gained can contribute to discussions about whether social workers receive adequate support in work environments where threats and violence are present. The study is based on seven qualitative, semistructured interviews with social workers in Sweden's social services. A thematic analysis has been conducted to process the collected empirical data. The data has also been analyzed based on previous research and two different theories, coping and human relations. The study shows that social workers have been exposed to threats and violence at some point in their careers, where subtle threats occur more frequently than other forms of violence and threats. All participants describe that they currently have good support when incidents of threats and violence occur in the workplace, but that there is room for improvement in some areas of support. The support that they want to see more of in situations involving threats and violence includes: preventive routines, standing items on threats and violence at workplace meetings, guidance, managers having insight into cases and giving feedback, better onboardings to the work regarding threats and violence in the workplace, and more dialogues on the subject since threats and violence are often normalized in social work. Social workers share the desire for politicians to take responsibility for the issue of threats and violence against social workers.

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka vilka faktorer som styr socialsekreterares arbete med barns rätt och delaktighet samt vilken betydelse barnkonventionen har i socialsekreterarens arbete och om det har skett någon förändring sedan barnkonventionen inkorporerades som lag.  Studien baserades på fem kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer. Tre av intervjuerna genomfördes med personer som arbetar som socialsekreterare och två intervjuer med personer som i dagsläget arbetar som biträdande enhetschefer på en familjeenhet. Resultatet av studien har bearbetats utifrån en tematisk analys, för att sedan analyseras utifrån de teoretiska perspektiven systemteori, ekologisk systemteori och gräsrotsbyråkrati samt de teoretiska begreppen barnperspektiv och barns perspektiv. Det som framkommit av studien gällande våra frågeställningar om faktorer som möjliggör och hindrar socialsekreteraren i arbetet för barnets rätt och barnets bästa, har summerats i två huvudteman med tillhörande subteman. Resultatet av studien har visat att barnkonventionen länge varit en självklar del i socialsekreterarens arbetssätt, både praktiskt och teoretiskt. Därför har lagförandet av barnkonventionen inte gjort någon större skillnad hos socialsekreterarna på familjeenheten. Däremot visar studien att de större förändringarna som skett efter att barnkonventionen blivit lag snarare handlar om andra aktörers arbete, vilket i sin tur har medfört en betydande skillnad i socialsekreterarnas arbete för barnets rättigheter och bästa. Studiens övergripande slutsatser kan sammanfattas i följande punkter; Samhällssystemen styr socialsekreterarens förutsättningar att utföra sitt arbete, Barnkonventionen har gett verktyg för andra aktörer att inta ett barnrättsperspektiv, De organisatoriska förutsättningarna på varje enhet spel en stor roll samt Politikens prioriteringar påverkar socialsekreterarens förutsättningar i stor utsträckning. Avslutningsvis visar resultatet av vår studie att det är många andra faktorer än bara lagar som påverkar förutsättningarna för att socialsekreteraren ska kunna utföra sitt arbete på ett adekvat sätt och att det i nuläget finns fler hinder än möjligheter för en socialsekreterare att arbeta för barnets rättigheter och bästa. / The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate the factors that are influencing govern social workers' work with children's rights and participation and the importance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the work of social workers and whether any changes has occurred since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into law. The study was based on five qualitative semi-structured interviews, three of which were conducted with social workers and two with current assistant unit managers in a family unit. The empirical data was analysed using thematic analysis, and the analysis was guided by the theoretical perspectives of systems theory and street level bureaucracy, as well as the theoretical concepts of child perspective and children's perspective. The study has shown that the Convention on the Rights of the Child has always played a natural part in the social workers' working methods, both practically and theoretically. However, the study also reveals that the major changes that have occurred since the Convention on the Rights of the Child became law are more related to the work of other actors rather than the social workers encountered in this study.  The overall conclusions of the study can be summarized in the following points; Social systems determine the social worker's ability to perform their work, Political priorities affect the social worker's conditions to a great extent, The Convention on the Rights of the Child has provided tools for other actors to adopt a child rights perspective, The organizational conditions in each unit play a major role. In conclusion, the results of our study show that there are many factors other than just laws that affect the conditions for the social worker to be able to perform their work adequately, therefore there are currently more obstacles than opportunities for a social worker to work for the rights and best interests of the child.

This qualitative study focuses on digitalisation in the social-work field within an ethical context. As a result of society's digital development and after the covid-19 pandemic paralyzed the world, today many meetings between professionals and clients take place through digital services. The purpose of this study is mainly to examine the role of digital meetings in the social-worker-client relationship. Through interviews with professionals working with digital tools in the field of social work, this study has been able to show both the opportunities and the challenges of digitalisation for the relationship between social worker and client.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker socialsekreteraren uppfattning av det egna arbetet med risk- och skyddsfaktorer kring unga som befinner sig i riskzon för narkotikaanvändning. Vidare undersöker denna uppsats socialsekreterarens uppfattningar kring hur både denne själv och kollegiet utför arbetet med dessa skydds- och riskfaktorer bland unga och unga som befinner sig i riskzon för narkotikaanvändning. Det är vanligt att det förekommer flera riskfaktorer vid samma tillfälle hos en ungdom vilket ökar risken för normbrytande beteende. Socialtjänsten arbetar för att ge stöd och tillgodose de behov som ungdomen har för att främja en positiv utveckling och minska riskerna som riskfaktorerna medför. Med hjälp av semi-strukturerade intervjuer har vi intervjuat sex socialsekreterare på ungdomsenheten i Malmö för att besvara frågeställningarna (1)Hur beskriver socialsekreterare sitt arbete med att identifiera och hantera risk- och skyddsfaktorer i utredningar med ungdomar? (2) Vilka uppfattningar och åsikter framkommer hos socialsekreterare när de reflekterar över arbetet med risk- och skyddsfaktorer i utredningar om ungdomar? (3) Vilka uppfattningar och åsikter framkommer hos socialsekreterare när de reflekterar över arbetet med risk- och skyddsfaktorer i utredningar om ungdomar i riskzon för narkotikaanvändning? Vid undersökningen av den första frågeställningen fanns det återkommande utsagor som beskrev upplevelsen av en gemensam förståelse och samsyn kring allt som relateras till risk- och skyddsfaktorer. Trots denna gemensamma förståelse visade resultatet att upplevelsen kring om arbetet med bedömning och/eller analys sker kollektivt eller individuellt tycks bero på ärendets omständigheter. Vid nästa frågeställning var det varierande uppfattningar kring arbetet men många tenderar att tro att uppfattningarna är gemensamma. Sista frågeställningen visade att uppfattningen och åsikterna påverkades beroende på ärendets omständigheter, ungdomens helhetssituation och faktorer såsom typ av substans, narkotikaanvändningens tidsram och vilka andra framträdande riskfaktorer som finns. / This essay examines the social worker's perception of their own work with risk and protective factors around youths in risk zones of using narcotics. Furthermore, this essay investigates the social worker's perceptions regarding how both they themself and other coworkes carry out the work with protective and risk factors among youths in risk zones of using narcotics. It is common for a young person to have several risk factors at the same time, which increases the risk of norm-breaking behaviour. Social services work to provide support and meet the needs of adolescents in order to promote positive development and reduce the risks that the risk factors entail. Using semi-structured interviews, we have interviewed six social workers at the youth unit in Malmö to answer the following questions (1) How do social workers describe their work with identifying and managing risk and protective factors in investigations with youths?(2) What perceptions and opinions emerge from social workers when they reflect on the work with risk and protective factors in investigations of youths? (3) What perceptions and opinions emerge from social workers when they reflect on the work with risk and protective factors in investigations of youths in risk zones of using narcotics? When examining the first question, there were recurring statements that described the experience of a common understanding and consensus regarding everything related to risk and protective factors. Despite this common understanding, the results showed that the experience of whether the work with assessment and/or analysis is done collectively or individually seems to depend on the circumstances of the case. In the next question, there were varying perceptions about the work, but many tended to believe that there is a common consensus of the perceptions.The last question showed that the perceptions and opinions were affected depending on the circumstances of the case, the young person’s overall situation and factors such as the type if substance, the time frame if the narcotic use and what other prominent risk factors exist.