Background: Being subjected to an extensive burn injury affects the victim´s physique, social life and its psyche. A burn injury can be determined as a trauma. Burn injuries often make the patient suffer from pain, anxiety and lack of a social life. Sister Callista Roy´s theory was used to analyze the result of the study. One of her goal is to promote the adaptive function of self-perception. Aim: The aim of this literature review was to describe how patients with extensive burns and their families experienced the return to daily life. Method: This literature review is based on four qualitative and four quantitative scientific articles. Results: The results showed that family support played a major role in the patient´s life after the burn injury, it is important for the further rehabilitation. Burned patients use different coping strategies to solve this particularly traumatic situation. Several of the burn victims experienced an altered self-image as a burn injury changes the appearance. Many felt that it restrained them from participating in social contexts. Result is based on three different themes: I and myself, I together with my family and I together with the society. Conclusion: Patients and their family adapt to changes in their daily life different. Development of strategies was important to be able to return to daily life. Therefore, it is important for nurses to provide information on different strategies.

Det finns relativt omfattande internationell (främst amerikansk) litteratur som visat att militär internationell insats påverkar den anställde och dennes familj/nätverk, men få svenska studier. Syftet med denna studie var att fördjupa kunskapen om psykologiska belastningsfaktorer och stödbehov i samband med militär insats i utlandet med fokus på familjesituationen. Aktuella frågeställningar var: Hur upplevde veteranen/partnern ökad belastning, stressreaktioner eller annan påverkan på måendet? Hur upplevde veteranen/partnern/paret behov av stöd? Hur upplevde veteranen/partnern att PREP, ett pedagogiskt förebyggande program för par, varit till hjälp vid insats? Undersökningsgruppen bestod av fyra par som genomgått PREP där en i paret deltagit i en militär internationell insats i Afghanistan. Inför intervjuerna gjordes en intervjuguide på basis av inläst material. Det insamlade intervjumaterialet bearbetades utifrån tematisk analys. Resultat som framkom var ökad belastning på hemmavarande, (övergående) påverkan på måendet hos paret, betydelsen av mentala och praktiska förberedelse och en fungerande kommunikation liksom svårigheter att ta varandras perspektiv. Positiva effekter framkom som yrkesmässig utveckling, kamratskap under missionen och att paret klarat utmaningen. Specifika förutsättningar för anhörig till civilrekryterad personal beskrevs. Behov av stöd i olika former framkom liksom att PREP varit till hjälp. Slutsatser som drogs var betydelsen av delaktighet, vikten av att följa upp mental hälsa, att ett ”nätverkstänk” bör genomsyra hela (utbildnings)insatsen samt att bygga upp ”förstärkt PREP” eller andra anpassade former för par i behov av professionell behandling.

The child protective services in Sweden contains two central parts, child protection and family support/ services. In the proposal for a new Social Service Act the family support is expanded to easier provide support for parents and children without assessments. Since year 2020 the Convention on the Rights of the Child has been accepted as law in Sweden (2018:1197) which includes statements about children’s rights to participation. This master’s thesis aims to examine professional’s description of how and to what extent children gives the opportunity to participate in family support/services offered on voluntary ground and provided without professional assessment. This study consists of mixed methods, one survey combined with semi-structured interviews. The respondents are professionals working within the family support. 50 respondents from five different municipalities responded to the survey and seven interviews were conducted. The empirical analysis was conducted in SPSS and with qualitative thematic analysis respectively. The theoretical framework is social constructionism, sociology of childhood and organization theory such as Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucrats. The professional’s within this study is categorized as street-level bureaucrats which broadly means that their work is characterized by different goal conflicts for example between the interest of the clients and the organization. The conclusion in this thesis is that different internal and external factors are central when deciding whether children should participate in family support or not. The professional’s express a need to protect children from potential harm (protectionism) and participation and protection do not seem to fully be possible to reconcile. Different kind of organization culture and guidelines are also central for the children’s participation in family support offered on voluntary ground and the family support is to some extent described as parent oriented. The survey showed that older children (12-17 years) to a higher extent then younger children (0-5 and 6-11 years) are involved in the voluntary family support which is explained by the child’s verbal abilities. Also, the environment and setting are mentioned as factors that affect children’s participations together with older children better responding to the professional’s expectations of a conversation.

<p>In addition to all our soldiers and officers who do military services abroad there are a lot of people who are affected by their choice to contribute, namely their next of kin. This report deals only with those who are next of kin to those who perform service abroad. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relatives' need for emotional and social support as well as practical and economical support. The main question is What kind of practical/economical and emotional/social support do close relatives require when a relative does military service abroad? The method used in this paper is a qualitative research interview. Interviews have been made with four women, who are next of kin to soldiers and officers who are or have been abroad for military services during the last two years. The result of this study is that all respondents have a need for emotional / social support linked to their partner’s deployment abroad; however, people require different types of support. Regarding practical / financial support the informants' needs differ, this is due to their different living situations.</p>

In addition to all our soldiers and officers who do military services abroad there are a lot of people who are affected by their choice to contribute, namely their next of kin. This report deals only with those who are next of kin to those who perform service abroad. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relatives' need for emotional and social support as well as practical and economical support. The main question is What kind of practical/economical and emotional/social support do close relatives require when a relative does military service abroad? The method used in this paper is a qualitative research interview. Interviews have been made with four women, who are next of kin to soldiers and officers who are or have been abroad for military services during the last two years. The result of this study is that all respondents have a need for emotional / social support linked to their partner’s deployment abroad; however, people require different types of support. Regarding practical / financial support the informants' needs differ, this is due to their different living situations.

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