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This study was designed to analyze student wellness behaviors. The goal was to provide meaningful discussion regarding which behaviors students at a top ten university are engaging in and how that may contribute to their ability to thrive academically. Variables such as gender, year enrolled, and GPA were analyzed to arrive at recommendations on how students personally interested in maximizing their academic performance and ability to thrive on campus could incorporate behaviors that have been successful for their peers into their daily routines. Student development theory was also a component of this study. Undergraduate and graduate student wellness behaviors were comparatively analyzed to better comprehend wellness behaviors throughout the stages of enrollment. The study was designed to analyze what phase of development, through the lens of self-authorship, students were engaging in an effort to articulate how these top ten university students are "making their own ways." This study found that top ten university students are more positioned to thrive academically and perhaps beyond based on their engagement in wellness behaviors. The study also found that there are relationships among the variables gender, year enrolled, and GPA and specific wellness constructs such that different groups of students require different programmatic options. Based upon these findings, recommendations are offered for the incorporation of various wellness programmatic pieces into a university's academic and extracurricular services. Recommendations for other top ten Universities are offered, as well as ways in which non top ten Universities can innovatively adapt programs to support student wellness development with limited human and financial resources.

Syfte med min studie är att undersöka specialpedagogers uppdrag i tre olika elevhälsoteam i samma kommun och hur specialpedagoger upplever arbetet med digitala journalsystem. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i ett sociokulturellt perspektiv där synsättet är att lärande och kunskapsutveckling sker i interaktion med andra. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats där semistrukturerade intervjuer använts som metod med fyra specialpedagoger och en rektor. Med ett hermeneutiskt synsätt har jag försökt tolka och förstå de resultat som framkommit. Resultatet av denna studie visar att administration med planering och förberedande av ärende inför elevhälsoteamens möten och dokumentation av pedagogiska dokument är vanligt förekommande uppdrag för specialpedagoger i de i studien ingående elevhälsoteam. Det specialpedagogiska perspektivet att finna alternativa vägar och lösningar för inlärning är liksom anpassad undervisning på framförallt individnivå men även gruppnivå uppdrag som genomförs ofta. Samarbete mellan specialpedagog och rektor eftertraktas av specialpedagoger i studien men det faktiska samarbetet varierar stort. Digitala journalsystem har skapat möjligheter som tidigare inte fanns och ordet tillgänglighet har fått en bred betydelse i form av tillgänglighet till arkiv, mallar och stödmaterial. Nackdelen med det digitala journalsystemet är att tillgängligheten endast gäller för medlemmar i elevhälsoteamen och inte för övrig personal som arbetar nära elever. / The purpose with my research is to investigate special educators’ tasks in three different student wellness teams and how special educators experience their work with digital journal systems. The study has a qualitative approach where semi-structured interviews were used as the method with four special educators and a principal. A hermeneutic approach is applied as the interpretative analysis of the interview data. The result of this study shows that administrative tasks and preparation of cases before student wellness teams meetings and educational documentation are common tasks for special educators for those partaking in this study. The special educator’s perspective to find alternative ways and solutions to learning is common as well as adaptive teaching, especially on an individual level but also in groups. Cooperation between special educator and principal is sought after by special educators in this study but the actual cooperation varies heavily. The digital journal system has created previously unavailable opportunities and the term availability has become a broader meaning by way of archives, templates, and support materials. The downside with the digital journal system is that availability only applies to members of the team and not to others working closely with students.