The purpose of this study is to illustrate how family home secretaries are discussing the conditions and importance of the biological children in foster families. Through this we want to gain an understanding of the subject and contribute with knowledge that can generate further research. Previous research shows that biological children are under prioritized in foster care. We were curious about what foster care secretary’s actually do for this group of individuals in their work. To get this information we interviewed six social workers who works with foster care. Our six informants were located in different municipalities in southern Sweden. The theoretical perspective we used were the norm of the core family, from private to public and the last theory we used were risk- and protection factors. The qualitative method for the study was semi- structured interviews that we transcribed and coded for our results. The results shows that the biological children gets often overridden due to the lack of resources and that the different municipalities argue differently about the need to support the biological children. The biological children in fosterfamilies has an important roll and meaning for the fosterchildren’s wellbeeing. Another result show that familychanges affects the biological children but the social workers dont’t reflect about that.

Uppsatsen "Att leva med bonussyskon – Om de biologiska barnens situation i familjehemmen" ur ett föräldra- samt professionellt perspektiv är utförd och skriven av Annie Dahlbom. Denna studie syftar till att få kunskap om de biologiska barnens situation och behov i familjehemmen. Följande frågeställningar har ställts : Hur ser familjehemsföräldrar och familjehemssekreterare på de biologiska barnens delaktighet och roll? Vilka upplevelser och erfarenheter får biologiska barn i och med familjens uppdrag? Har biologiska barn ett behov av stöd och hjälp för sin egen del och i så fall hur? Denna studie är av kvalitativ karaktär och bygger på semistrukturerade intervjuer med familjehemssekreterare samt familjehemsföräldrar. Studiens resultat visar att biologiska barn i familjehem anses ha en betydelsefull roll för uppdraget och är i hög grad delaktiga i den dagliga vården av det placerade barnet. Familjehemmets egna barn har ingen delaktighet vid möten eller i kontakten med socialtjänsten. Upplevelserna av att fungera som familjehem är av både positiv och negativ karaktär där förlorad tid med föräldrar samt goda och nyttiga kunskaper är exempel på sådana. Samtliga informanter tror att någon form av gruppverksamhet skulle vara ett bra forum för de biologiska barnen. / This essey "living with bonus siblings- Biological children’s situation within their family’s work as a foster family" have been written and executed by Annie Dahlbom. The purpose of this essay is to understand the biological situation within their family’s work as a foster family. How will the biological children react on their family’s mission? I want to gain knowledge about how these children’s participation takes place within the separate parts of their family’s work. Is there a need for shoring and help for foster homes own children according to their situation? The following questions have been asked to fulfill the purpose of this study: How do foster parents and professionals describe the biological children's participation and role? What experiences have biological children in the family's mission? Have biological children need support and help for their own part, and if so, how? This study is qualitative in nature and based on semi-structured interviews with professionals and foster parents.The results demonstrate that the biological children of the foster family have a significant role in the mission and is heavily involved in the daily care of the child is placed. The foster family’s own children have no involvement in meetings or in contact with social services. The experiences of serving as foster homes are both positive and negative character where lost time with parents as well as good and useful knowledge is examples of such. All respondents believe that some form of group activity would be a good forum for the biological children.

Studien gjordes i syfte att undersöka hur familjehemsföräldrar kan uppleva att deras uppdrag som familjehem påverkar dem själva, deras biologiska barn och deras relationer. Fokusgruppsintervjuer genomfördes med två grupper innehållande fem familjehemsföräldrar i varje grupp. Fokusgrupperna bestod av fem kvinnor och fem män emellan 33 och 61 år. En intervjuguide och en mindre enkät skapades och användes under intervjuerna som spelades in på ljudfiler. Databearbetningen bestod av en fenomenologisk, hermeneutisk analysmetod. Analysen gav tre slutliga teman: kommunikationens betydelse inom familjehemmet och i dess kontakt med omvärlden utanför hemmet; familjehemsuppdragets positiva och negativa påverkan på grundfamiljens relationer inom och utom familjen och familjehemsuppdragets positiva och negativa effekter på personlig och psykologisk utveckling hos föräldrar och biologiska barn i familjehem. Kommunikation och är ett centralt begrepp i livsvärlden för de i studien deltagande familjehemsföräldrarna. Relationer och psykologisk utveckling påverkas både positiv och negativt. Resultaten i studien är i linje med tidigare forskning och kommunikation, gränssättning och empati visade sig vara användbara verktyg i uppdraget som familjehem för föräldrarna i studien. Uppsatsen generar en modell som fick namnet Familjehemsdynamik. Modellen beskriver vilka effekter uppdraget som familjehem kan ha på individerna i grundfamiljen. / The study was done in order to investigate how foster parents experience how foster care affects themselves, their biological children and their relationships. Focus group interviews were conducted with two groups of five foster parents in each group. The focus groups consisted of five women and five men between 33 and 61 years old. An interview guide and a smaller survey was created and used during the interviews that were recorded on audio files. Data processing consisted of a phenomenological, hermeneutic analysis. The analysis gave three final themes: the importance of communication within the foster home and in their contact with the world outside the home; the impact of foster care on the biological children and their parents' relations within and outside the foster home and the positive and negative impact on personal and psychological development on parents and biological children in foster homes. Communication is a central concept in the foster carers everyday life. Relationships and psychological development is influenced both positively and negatively. The results of the study are in line with previous research. Communication, boundaries and empathy are key elements in foster care. The paper generated a model named Fostering care family dynamics. The model describes potential effects of fostering on the individuals in the biological family.

Syftet med studien har varit att öka kunskapen om biologiska barns perspektiv på konflikter och konflikthantering samt att undersöka rollens betydelse för konflikter i och med ett familjehemsuppdrag. Behovet av studien baserades på att konflikter mellan biologiska barn och familjehemsplacerade barn är en vanlig orsak till sammanbrott. Uppsatsen har en kvalitativ ansats som utgått från semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta respondenter i åldrarna 18-28 år. Respondenterna delar den gemensamma erfarenheten om vad det innebär att vara biologiskt barn i ett familjehem. Studien har sin teoretiska utgångspunkt i ett barndomssociologiskt perspektiv och resultatet tolkades tematiskt och analyserades sedan med hjälp av konflikt-och konflikthanteringsperspektiv samt rollteori. Resultatet visar att de företeelser och situationer biologiska barn behöver förhålla sig till inom ramen för familjehemsuppdraget innefattar system-, mellanmänskliga-och individuella konflikter, där individuella konflikter visat sig mest framträdande i form av ambivalenta känslor och samvetskval. Studien visar också att biologiska barn hanterar konflikter på olika sätt. De synliga hanteringsstilarna är undvikande, anpassande, kompromissande och samarbetande, där undvikande och anpassande visat sig mest framträdande. Resultatet visar vidare att biologiska barn intar olika roller i familjehemsuppdraget som innefattas av ansvar och deltagande på olika sätt, vilket kan resultera i olika individuella konflikter. Respondenterna i studien berättar också att antingen mer stöd från familjen eller stöd utifrån hade gynnat deras upplevelse av familjehemsuppdraget. / The purpose of the study has been to increase the knowledge about biological children's perspective on conflicts and conflict management, as well as to study the importance of the role of conflicts in foster families. The need for the study was based on the fact that conflicts between biological children and foster children are a common cause of cancelation of fostering in foster families. The essay has a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews with eight respondents aged 18-28. Respondents share the common experience about what it means to be a biological child in a foster family. The study has its theoretical point of view in a childhood sociological perspective and the result was interpreted thematically and then analyzed using conflict and conflict management perspectives as well as role theory. The results show that the phenomena and situations thatbiological children need to relate to within the context of being part of a foster family include systemic, interpersonal and individual conflicts, whereas individual conflicts have been shown to be most prominent in terms of ambivalent feelings and compunction. The study also shows that biological children handle conflicts in different ways. The visible management styles are avoiding, adaptive, compromising and collaborative, where avoiding and adapting proved most prominent. The result further shows thatbiological children occupy different roles in the foster family, which is comprised of responsibility and participation in different ways, which can result in different individual conflicts. The respondents in the study also says that either more support from the family or support from outside would have benefited their experience of being a foster family.

Studiens syfte var att få bidra med en ökad kunskap om och förståelse för hur nu unga vuxna, biologiska barn, upplever att ha föräldrar som har haft familjehemsuppdrag och vilken betydelse det haft för dem. Syftet var också att undersöka om dessa barn haft behov av stöd samt vilket stöd de fått. I studien genomfördes fem kvalitativa intervjuer med unga vuxna som har vuxit upp med föräldrar som haft familjehemsuppdrag. Studiens resultat analyserades med Schultz Jørgensens familjeplansteori. Resultat och tolkningar visade att biologiska barn upplever sig delaktiga i familjehemsuppdraget och beskriver relationen till sina fostersyskon som syskon och vän. Biologiska barn beskriver att de hade lättare att skapa relationer till de yngre fostersyskonen än till de som är tonåringar eller jämngamla. Resultatet visade att informanterna upplever fler fördelar än nackdelar med att ha fostersyskon. De biologiska barnen beskriver också att de kände att de saknade möjligheten till stöd från socialtjänsten. / The purpose of the study was to help create a greater knowledge and understanding for now young adult biological children's experiences of having had parents being foster care parents and the meaning of it. The purpose was also to examine if these children had need of and what kind of aid they got. This study was based of five qualitative interviews with now young adults that’s been growing up with parents that were foster parents. The result in the study was analysed with Schultz Jørgensens familyplanetheory. Results and interpretations showed that biological children experience a participation in the foster care process and describes the relation to the foster children as that of a sibling and friend. Biological children describe that they have an easier time creating relations to younger foster siblings than to teenagers and children in the same age. The results showed that the informants experience more positive feelings than negative feelings with having foster siblings. The biological children also describe that they felt a loss of opportunities of aid from the social services.

Syftet med studien var att åskådliggöra vilka konsekvenser uppdraget som familjehem kan få för de biologiska barnen när det sker förändringar i syskonskaran. Vi fann flera motsägelser i de biologiska barnens berättelser vilket vi tolkar som att uppdraget är komplext. Förändringen i syskonskaran upplevs delvis som utmanande. En av utmaningarna för våra respondenter har varit att de ska agera utifrån en ny roll vilket är en process som har tagit olika lång tid att hantera. Majoriteten av våra respondenter pratar positivt om sin förändrade situation och uppdraget i sin helhet. De menar att det ökade ansvaret som uppdraget inneburit gjort att de fått en annan roll i familjen som bidragit till att de upplever sig mer tagna på allvar. Den nya rollen har visat sig innebära en större frihet men också givit dem nya möjligheter. Förändringen har likväl väckt ett behov av att bibehålla en viss struktur inom familjen och att ibland få möjlighet att få återgå till det som familjen gjorde innan uppdraget påbörjades. Flera av våra respondenter uttrycker en önskan om en tillflyktsort där de får tillfälle att vara som “vanligt”, vilket vi tolkat som innan de fått en ny position i syskonskaran. Studiens resultat pekar på att uppdraget är komplext. Konsekvensen av att få en ny position i syskonskaran upplevs delvis som utmanande och delvis som en möjlighet. Vi har funniten paradox; att de biologiska barnen å ena sidan finner uppdraget och de nya förväntningar som kommer med den nya syskonpositionen som befriande och å andra sidan uttrycker de ett behov av att låta allt vara som vanligt.       Studien har genomförts med nio respondenter genom både kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer via en intervjuguide och strukturerade intervjuer i enkätform. För att förstå det empiriska materialet har det analyserats med hjälp av flera teoretiska begrepp från systemteorin samt en sociologisk rollteori. Vi har också valt att relatera empirin till den tidigare forskning som gjorts i ämnet. Utgångspunkten i studien har varit att placeringen i syskonskaran spelar roll då det finns olika förväntningar på de olika rollerna. Föreställningen om att ens position i syskonskaran påverkar en individ gör det intressant att lyfta de biologiska barnen i familjehem för att förstå viktiga aspekter av att agera syskon och samtidigt ändra den position som man är van vid. Studien syftade till att klargöra hur de biologiska barnen upplevde den förändring i syskonskaran som uppdraget innebar. / The purpose of the study was to illustrate the consequences of the family home for the biological children when there are changes in the siblingship. We found several contradictions in the children's stories, which we interpret as the mission is complex. The change in the siblingship is partly experienced as challenging. One of the challenges for our respondents has been that they act on a new role, which is a process that has taken a long time to handle. The majority of our respondents speak positively about their changed situation and the assignment as a whole. They believe that the increased responsibility that the assignment meant meant that they had a different role in the family that helped them feel more seriously taken. The new role has proved to mean greater freedom, but also given them new opportunities. However, the change has aroused the need to maintain a certain structure within the family and sometimes to get back to what the family did before the mission began. Several of our respondents express a wish for a place of refuge where they have the opportunity to be "common", which we interpreted as before they got a new position in the siblings. The study results indicate that the assignment is complex. The consequence of getting a new position in the siblingship is partly experienced as challenging and partly as an opportunity. Paradoxically, we have found that the biological children, on the one hand, find the mission and the new expectations that come with the new sibling position as liberation, and on the other hand they express a need to let everything be as usual.      The study has been conducted with nine respondents through both qualitative semistructured interviews via an interview guide and structured interviews in questionnaire. To understand the empirical material, it has been analyzed using several theoretical concepts from system theory and a sociological role theory. We have also chosen to relate empirin to the previous research done on the subject. The starting point of the study has been that the position in the siblings carries a role as there are different expectations of the different roles. The idea that one's position in sibling carries an individual affects an individual makes it interesting to raise the children in family homes to understand important aspects of acting siblings while changing the position that is used to. The study aimed at clarifying how the biological children experienced the change in the siblingship that the mission meant.

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Background: Infertility affects both men and women globally and can be caused by several factors. The couple must have tried for at least a year before the diagnosis of infertility can. The nurse's knowledge of infertility plays a role in the patient's care experience. Orem's self-care theory can be used as a tool for the nurse in the meeting with infertile patients.Purpose: To compile and describe women's and men's experiences of living with infertility.Method: Literature study with descriptive design and thematic analysis method based on compilation of 15 qualitative articles.Main results: Participants experienced deficiencies in care related to treatment and communication. Other experiences such as infertility as a result of the result was that several of the participants experienced a mental impact due to family and outsiders which in some led to mental illness. In order to be able to handle the consequences of involuntary childlessness and its treatment processes, coping strategies have also been called coping strategies, and support from family and as a healthcare professional has been a factor.Conclusion: With the help of competence development, the nurse can contribute to a better care experience for women and men with infertility. The nurse can also contribute to good nursing, by applying self-care and management strategies that help patients. Women and men with infertility can then experience the care as safe and understanding and offer advice on handling challenging situations in everyday life.

The study aims to understand foster care secretary’s reasoning concerning biological children in foster cares. Previous research shows that biological children are a vulnerable group. But do their voices get heard? To find out how the foster care secretary reasoning about biological children of foster cares, I have interviewed four randomly municipalities in Sweden. The study is qualitative and based on a development ecological system theoretical perspective. The result shows that biological children’s right is focused and that the secretary’s ambition is to talk with the biological children before and under the foster care period. Before the family becomes a foster care they have to undergo extensive training to learn and feel ready for the new life situation.

The aim of the study was to understand how the family home secretary reasons and thinks and how they express themselves in their actions towards the family home’s biological children. The method used is qualitative semi-structured interviews, involving six family home secretaries from four different municipalities. The results were analyzed with the help of two theories – the theory of grassroots bureaucracy and the sociology of childhood theory. From the collective views of all informants, the biological children’s attitude towards the family home mandate is considered important. However, participation from the biological children is limited. Education and guidance is directed solely towards the family home parents, without any active involvement from the biological children in these efforts. Some of the informants stress that they as professionals must be better at paying attention to the biological children than what prevails today. The collective results show that family home parents are expected to take great responsibility for their biological children as well as their participation and well-being within the family home mandate.