I denna studie har fokus legat på sociala insatsgrupper i fyra områden i Stockholms län. Sociala insatsgrupper är en strukturerad samverkan på individnivå mellan i första hand socialtjänst, polis och skola som syftar till att förhindra nyrekrytering av ungdomar till kriminella grupperingar samt underlätta avhopp från kriminella grupperingar. Studiens övergripande syfte är att undersöka hur samverkan mellan socialarbetare och poliser ser ut inom projektet sociala insatsgrupper. Studien fokuserar på socialarbetarnas och polisernas yrkesroller samt stöd- och kontrollaspekter. Studiens resultat visar att sociala insatsgrupper uppfattas som ett framgångsrikt projekt, men också att det råder ett spänningsförhållande mellan en behandlingslogik och en straffrättslig logik som polis och socialarbetare måste förhålla sig till i samverkan kring ungdomen. Studiens resultat visar även att stöd och kontroll inte kan skiljas från varandra, något som kan härledas till en övergripande så kallad normaliseringslogik som delas av socialarbetarna och polisen i arbetet med ungdomen. För att belysa och problematisera resultaten har studien främst hämtat inspiration från den nyinstitutionella teoribildningen som riktar fokus på samverkansprocesser i organisationer. / Community Intervention Team [social insatsgrupp] is a structured collaboration between social services, police, and schools. It is a project that aims to prevent new recruitment of youth into criminal groups, but also to facilitate defections from criminal groups. The study's main aim is to investigate the collaboration between social workers and police officers within the framework of the community intervention teams. The study focuses on the roles of socialworkers and police officers, and the their aspects of support and control. The results show that community intervention teams is perceived as a successful project, but there is also a visible tension between the logics of treatment and the logics of punishment, that both social workers and police officers have to deal with as a part of their collaboration. The study also shows that support and control cannot be separated from one another; which can be attributed to the over all logics of normalization shared by social workers and police officer's in their work with young people. In order to highlight and to problematize the results, the study has mainly been inspired by the new institutional theory that focuses on collaborative processes in organizations.

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente tese tem por objetivo analisar o trato teórico dado à categoria pobreza pelo Serviço Social. Para tanto, após caracterizar os fundamentos do fenômeno em questão, discutimos as diferentes concepções nas diversas perspectivas teórico-metodológicas e suas propostas de enfrentamento. Sustentados nessa análise, estudamos a abordagem da pobreza no debate do Serviço Social, partindo da hipótese que as formas de concepção da pobreza e seu enfrentamento vinculam-se às perspectivas e compromissos que os profissionais têm assumido. Organizamos o trabalho em três partes. A primeira que trata brevemente dos fundamentos do Modo de Produção Capitalistas e das determinações da sua fase imperialista/monopolista, considerando as particularidades da industrialização no Brasil, para entender a gênese da pobreza e suas manifestações nesse contexto. A segunda parte apresenta as perspectivas teórico-metodológicas liberal, marxista, pós-moderna , através de alguns autores que são referências para a compreensão do fenômeno; a partir do qual analisamos o que entendemos como equívocos nessa discussão. Finalmente, na terceira parte, nos dedicamos ao estudo das formas com que se debate a pobreza e seu enfrentamento no Serviço Social. A análise da produção do Serviço Social foi realizada a partir de um duplo caminho. No primeiro consideramos a bibliografia produzida no âmbito da profissão, onde a pobreza é vinculada a conceitos como: subalternidade, carência, exclusão, popular, risco social, cidadania (invertida, ou não-cidadania), ou referênciada na Lei Geral da Acumulação Capitalista. No segundo caminho analisamos os 235 artigos que tratam da questão da pobreza, na Revista Serviço Social & Sociedade (da Cortez Editora). Por fim, reforçamos a importância de repor o debate sobre a pobreza no Serviço Social como resultado da contradição inerente à sociedade capitalista: socialização da produção e apropriação privada da riqueza produzida. Trata-se de uma resistência à substituição dessa categoria, dessa relação e desses fundamentos, por conceitos como a exclusão, subalternidade, vulnerabilidade e risco. Contudo, mesmo considerando que estes ampliam as determinações diversas das manifestações da pobreza, reafirmamos que não esclarecem os fundamentos e causas daquela. / This thesis aims to analyze the theoretical treatment given to poverty category by Social Services. For this purpose, after characterizing the foundations of the phenomenon in question, we discussed the different conceptions in the various theoretical and methodological perspectives and their proposals of confrontation. Supported in this analysis, we studied the approach of poverty in the discussion of the Social Service, assuming that the forms of the poverty conception and its confrontation are linked to the perspectives and commitments that the professionals have assumed. Therefore, we organized our work into three parts. The first treats briefly about the foundations of the Capitalist Way of Production and the stipulations of its imperialist/monopolist phase, considering the particularities of industrialization in Brazil, to understand the genesis of poverty and its expressions in this context. The second part presents the theoretical and methodological perspectives liberal, Marxist, post-modern through a number of authors who are references to the understanding of the phenomenon, from which we analyze what we understand as misunderstanding in this discussion. Finally, the third part, we dedicated to the study of the ways in which are discussed poverty and its confrontation in the Social Service. The production analysis of the Social Service was carried out using a double way. At first we consider the literature produced within the profession, where poverty is linked to concepts such as subaltern, lack, exclusion, popular, social risk, citizenship (inverted or non-citizens), or referenced in the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. In the second approach we analyzed the 235 articles that address the issue of poverty in the journal Social Work & Society (from Cortez Editora). Finally, we reinforce the importance of restoring the discussion on poverty in the Social Service as a result of the contradiction inherent to the capitalist society: socialization of the production and private appropriation of wealth produced. It is about a resistance to the replacement of this category, of this relationship and of these foundations, for concepts such as exclusion, subalternity, vulnerability and risk. However, even considering that they extend the determinations of the various poverty manifestations, we reaffirm that they do not explain poverty fundamentals and causes.

The aim of this study was to examine what judicial and profession related obstacles and difficulties that arise due to the role that social services have in preventing radicalization and violent extremism and what views social service workers and managers have regarding their involvement in this work. Specifically, the aim of the paper was to explore the understanding social services professionals have about the phenomenon that is radicalization and violent extremism and how this impacts the service they provide to individuals. Furthermore, the study wanted to investigate what methods and actions are carried out in order to detect and prevent individuals from becoming radicalized. Six separate semi-structured interviews were carried out consisting of four social services workers and two managers. The participants were selected from four different municipalities. After conducting the interviews four main themes regarding radicalization and violent extremism were identified, namely; understanding and reasoning, preventive and active measures, obstacles and difficulties, social services in a changing world. New institutionalism theory was applied to the result in order to improve the understanding of the role social services have regarding this issue. The studies main findings were that social workers and managers view radicalization as a process. This process can be carried out alone or as a member of a group. Radicalized individuals are hard to detect and therefore social services struggle to identify them. Fieldwork officers working together with school personnel have the best chance of detecting radicalization at an early stage. There is no method especially adapted to radicalization and violent extremism being used by the social services. Many participants describe being uncertain as to what their role should be with directives and regulations leaving room for interpretation and misunderstanding.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka klienters uppfattningar av samverkan inom socialtjänsten samt mellan socialtjänsten och andra aktörer inom det människobehandlande området. Detta gjordes med en kvalitativ metod där sex stycken halvstrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med klienter vars barn var aktuella inom individ och familjeomsorgen hos socialtjänsten i en mellanstor kommun. Resultaten belyser att informanterna uppmärksammar andra faktorer av betydelse i samverkansprocesser än vad professionella gör. Informanterna berättar att samverkan behövs men att det upplevs svårt och tidskrävande ju fler aktörer som är inblandade. Informanterna i studien har i huvudsak beskrivit sig som drivande och hjälpsökande. Studiens resultat visar att de har många viktiga roller i samverkansprocesserna vilket ofta förbises av både dem själva och av professionella. Socialsekreteraren och dennes relation till informanten upplevdes spela en viktig roll och de kunde avlasta klienten genom att fungera som exempelvis informationsspridare. För framtida forskning vore det intressant att undersöka andra klientgruppers erfarenheter av samverkansprocesser. / The purpose of this study was to investigate clients' perceptions of collaboration within the social service and between social services and other actors in human service organizations. A qualitative method was used and six semi-structured interviews were conducted with clients whose children were involved with social services. The results highlight that clients pay attention to other factors in the collaborative processes than professionals do. The interviewed clients expressed that collaboration is needed, but becomes difficult and time consuming the more actors involved. They described themselves as having a strong driving force and being help-seeking, as well as having many important roles in the collaborative processes that are often overlooked by both themselves and professionals. The results show that the relationship between social workers and clients play an important role where the social worker can relieve the client by acting as a disseminator of information.

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Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur massmedia och regeringen framställer socialtjänsten samt att undersöka om och hur de massmediala framställningarna korresponderar med regeringens framställningar. För att besvara studiens syfte har 37 stycken artiklar som publicerats i Dagens Nyheter under perioden 2017-07-01 – 2017-12-31 och 21 stycken av regeringens egenproducerade artiklar som publicerats på regeringens hemsida under perioden 2017-01-01 – 2017-12-31 analyserats med hjälp av kritisk diskursanalys. Anammandet av den kritiska diskursanalysen innebär att analyser (kvalitativa och kvantitativa innehållsanalyser) genomförts inom tre olika dimensioner av texten: text (textens innehåll), diskursiv praktik (textens produktion) och social praktik (hur texten knyter an till en bredare samhällsmässig struktur). I studien framkommer det att framställningarna av socialtjänsten i Dagens Nyheter har utgått från tre olika diskurser: handlingarnas diskurs, den organisatoriska diskursen och förpliktelsernas diskurs. Hur socialtjänsten framställs beror på vilken av diskurserna skribenterna i DN aktualiserar när de gör sina uttalanden. I de flesta fall är det handlingarnas diskurs som framträder. Detta innebär att socialtjänsten oftast framställs som en kontrollerande, vårdslös, likgiltig och maktfullkomlig verksamhet. Dessa egenskaper måste, enligt skribenterna, ifrågasättas och förändras.     I regeringens artiklar framkommer det att samtliga uttalanden inom ramen för artiklarna har utgått från en enda diskurs: den socialpolitiska diskursen. Utifrån diskursen framställs socialtjänsten som en verksamhet som är en del av en bredare välfärdsapparat som finns till för att hjälpa människor när behov för det finns. Det framkommer emellertid också att socialtjänsten för närvarande omfattas av en rad problem som är upp till politiken att lösa. När diskurserna i Dagens Nyheter relateras till den socialpolitiska diskursen så framträder ett mönster. Två av diskurserna i Dagens Nyheter (den organisatoriska diskursen och förpliktelsernas diskurs) framställer socialtjänsten på ett likartat sätt som regeringen medan den tredje diskursen (handlingarnas diskurs) förmedlar en motstridig bild. / The purpose of this study is to explore how the mass media and the government represent the social services as well as explore if and how the mass media´s representations correspond with the government's representations. 37 articles from the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter who were published between 2017-07-01 and 2017-12-31 as well as 21 of the government´s own articles who were published on the governments website between 2017-01-01 and 2017-12-31 have been examined to answer the purpose. The form for examination have been critical discourse analysis which means that the material has been analyzed (with qualitative and quantitative content analysis) within three different dimensions of the text: text (the content of the text), discursive practice (the production of the text) and social practice (how the text relates to a broader societal structure).  The study shows that the representations of the social services in Dagens Nyheter have been based on three different discourses: the discourse of action, the organizational discourse and the discourse of obligations. How the social services are represented depends upon which discourse the different authors base their statements on. The majority of the statements can, however, be found within the discourse of actions. This means that the social services in most cases are represented as controlling, wreck less, careless and autocratic. These are characteristics that, according to the authors, need to be questioned and changed.   In the government's articles it´s shown that all statements within the articles have been based upon one single discourse: the discourse of social policies. This discourse describes the social services as an organization that´s only one part of a wider welfare apparatus, which solely purpose is to help individuals when needed. It also shown, however, that the social services nowadays are subject to a number of problems and that it is up to the government to resolve them. When the discourses in Dagens Nyheter are compared to the discourse of social policies, the study argues, that a pattern appears. Two of the discourses in Dagens Nyheter (the organizational discourse and the discourse of obligations) represent the social services similarly to the discourse of social policies. However, the third discourse (the discourse of actions) conveys a contradictory and different picture of the social services.

ABSTRACT In the year 2003 and 2005, several legislative changes were made to same-sex couples advantage. Among other things, lesbian couples were given the right to be tested as adoptive parents and the possibility of assisted reproduction through the county councils. With such changes in law, society and family constellations are evolving today with more forms than the existing nuclear family. Similarly, the choice of approaches to forming a family in a same-sex relationship increases, two alternatives outside the county Council's assisted conception are; Insemination by clinic in another country or home insemination with private donated sperm. When insemination in same-sex relationship occurs at home or by clinic in another country, subsequent paternity investigations and Related adoption are required for the non-biological mother to be considered as legal parent, an investigation requested by the District Court and operated by Social Service in each municipality. With the possibility of same-sex couples to be tested as adoptive parents also follows expectations about the investigation procedure and its guidelines as a partner in the development. The aim of this study is to try to create a synthesized knowledge about the investigation process of paternity investigation and Related adoption, when it occurs in same-sex relationship. This by jointly trying to understand the experiences of women and Social workers ' in the investigation process and its content. The study is based on qualitative interviews with both women who have undergone the process and social secretaries who dealt with these cases. The result is a dominant shared experience of unclear guidelines where there is a demand for nuanced legislation and updated dossiers. / SAMMANFATTNING Under år 2003 och år 2005 gjordes flera lagförändringar till samkönade pars fördel. Bland annat fick lesbiska par rätt till att prövas som adoptivföräldrar och möjlighet till assisterad befruktning via landstingen. Med sådana lagändringar utvecklas samhället och familjekonstellationer idag har fler former än den ännu rådande kärnfamiljen. Likaså ökar valmöjligheterna av tillvägagångssätt för att bilda familj i en samkönad relation, två alternativ utanför landstingets assisterade befruktning är; insemination via utrikesklinik eller heminsemination med privat donerade spermier. När insemination i samkönad relation sker hemma eller på utrikesklinik krävs efterföljande faderskapsutredning och närståendeadoption för att den icke bärande mamman ska betraktas som juridisk förälder, en utredning som begärs av tingsrätten och som drivs av familjerätten i respektive kommun. Ju med samkönade pars rätt till att prövas som adoptivföräldrar följer också förväntningar kring utredningsförfarandet och dess riktlinjer som medpart i utvecklingen. Syftet med denna studie är att försöka skapa en syntetiserad kunskap kring utredningsförfarandet av faderskapsutredning och närståendeadoption, när det sker i samkönad relation. Detta genom att gemensamt försöka förstå kvinnors och familjerättssekreterares upplevelser av utredningsprocessen och dess innehåll. Studien baseras på kvalitativa intervjuer med både kvinnor som genomgått processen och familjerättssekreterare som handlagt dessa ärenden. I resultatet framkommer en dominerande gemensam upplevelse av otydliga riktlinjer där det finns en efterfrågan om nyanserad lagstiftning och uppdaterade underlag.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of providing all elements of the comprehensive rehabilitation of handicapped people. The goal of this thesis was to determine, what experiences adult handicapped people have in terms of being taken care of in their home environment and in an institution. Another goal was to try and find out what criteria are important for the way they evaluate these. And, the last goal of the thesis was to propose an effective model of taking care of these people given obtained results and given financial capacities of the state and today's regulations. The theoretical part shows the section and development of care provided to handicapped people from the beginning of humanity until today including valid legal regulations. The following part describes briefly the issue of a coordinated rehabilitation and the efforts to ensure the legal regulation thereof in the Czech Republic. The last chapter of the theoretical part is devoted to the D.R.A.K. Association, the clients of which are the relevant research set. For the research itself the qualitative research strategy was chosen. The data were acquired using semi-structured interviews with clients, their family members and those who care for them in the D. R. A. K. Association. Acquired data were processed using the qualitative contents analysis of interviews. The set of participants included nine clients, members of the D.R.A.K. Association, the target group of which are adult handicapped people. Next, I spoke with five family members and three experts from D. R. A. K. Results are divided into three chapters according to research questions. The first chapter contains answers of clients, how they perceive the difference when being taken care of in an institution (D.R.A.K. Association) and in the natural environment (at home). The second chapter of results describes criteria, which are decisive and important for clients and have emerged during interviews.

The diploma thesis focuses on the term risk in human life in general, as it is seen in the society and defined by current knowledge in the field of social science. Furthermore, the thesis explores the risk as a phenomenon connected to the social services. The social integration of disadvantaged groups of inhabitants into majority society have brought with it the need to defend the rights of people with disabilities, with an emphasis on their active involvement in everyday life, in seeking the opportunity to experience those situations that define this life. This focus brings a number of theoretical solutions for risk planning with respect to clients of social services. These solutions have been further taken into account in this section of the thesis. The experimental part of thesis focuses on the perception of risks by the employees who work in residential facilities in Zlín district, directly taking care of clients. This part of the thesis provides a relevant insight into risk awareness in selected residential facilities and its active use in practice. Consequently, it deals with other factors that may affect employees of facilities for people with disabilities when assessing risk planning and generally concerning their perception of the risk phenomenon in clients with mental disabilities. On the...

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