This study is about the child’s perspective when it comes to work with financial assistance. The purpose of the study was partly to describe how social workers regard the child’s perspective in their work with financial assistance and partly to look into whether they impose a child’s perspective in their practical work. To fulfill this purpose the authors used a quantitative method and sent out a web based survey to all the social workers actively working with financial assistance in Stockholm town. This study is based on the results of 93 replies. The results show that the social workers believe to a great extent that they have an understanding for the child’s perspective. They also claim to practice the child’s perspective to a relatively great extent. The social workers are less inclined to acknowledge the principle of children’s right to make themselves heard. According to the Convention on the Rights of Children as well as Swedish law children have the right, when it comes to matters that involve them, to express their opinion and have it taken into consideration, with regards to their age and maturity, but in the financial assistance procedure that right is not being met

The purpose of this study is to investigate young children’s possibility to participation and influence in preschool settings. The specific questions were:  If and how do preschool teachers work with young children's influence and participation? In what way is the preschool teachers approach closely related to young children's opportunity to influence and participate? The results show that preschool teachers do work with young children’s influence and participation by keeping them involved in the preschool settings and considering their interest when planning the activities. The teachers also interpret the children’s ability to express their wishes and needs through nonvocal communication such as gestures and body language. The teacher's approach was shown as closely connected to the children opportunity to influence and participate in consideration to how close the teacher was to the child’s perspective and how they viewed the child. In summary this study concludes that the children’s ability to exert influence and participation will increase by endeavouring to come close to the child’s perspective and balancing the routines of the preschool settings as well as taking the child’s individuality into consideration.

The aim of this study is to examine how substance abuse and mental illnesses are portrayed in children’s literature from a child’s perspective. To achieve the aim, text analyses were performed on four selected works of children’s literature. The question asked is: in what way can the selected books function to support pupils in problematic family circumstances? The scientific approach of the study is hermeneutic. Hermeneutics means the theory of interpretation and concerns the creation of meaning and understanding through interpretations of texts. The analyses proceed from a hermeneutic model. The model shows how different components go together in the interpretation of a text. In the analyses the children’s literature is set in relation to the background chapter, which shows what the reality is like. The discussion considers the analyses in greater depth with the aid of the theory in order to investigate how readers with similar experiences can perceive and be affected by literature. We chose to design the study in this way because it reflects the hermeneutics. The results of the study show that the selected literature can affect the reader. The theory shows that people have a tendency to recognize themselves in literature and see their own problems at a distance, which helps the reader in real life. Through the literature the reader’s conceptual world can be expanded by new insights into their surroundings. The conclusions drawn in the study are that it is important to work with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in school, to explain to children that adults are not always in good health, and that children have a right to be children.

Science has shown that siblings to children with a disability are affected by the family situation. The siblings often let their own needs and requests come secondary to their family members. This study illustrates how different professionals, who keep in contact with families with a disabled child, works with its siblings. The purpose with this study was to see how professionals, working as administrators, counselors at the habilitation and kin supporters in the region of Kalmar, include siblings while working with the families. Representatives from the professionals have been interviewed with a semi structured interview manual. The result showed that professionals have various opinions how siblings are affected by the family situation. Mutually, none of the professionals meet the siblings to listen to their view, instead they listen to the parents for information. The children´s convention is therefore not lived up to by the organizations. Our result shows an absence of a child´s perspective in the professionals work with siblings to children with a disability.

Domestic violence is often experienced as a crisis period, and it may impact children’s well-being, everyday functioning and development. To promote these minors’ resilience, social intervention is extremely important. The support and responses attributed to these children are not always adequate for their needs and interests. Considering children’s perspectives on social intervention is crucial to improve and to provide complete social work responses. A systematic literature review was conducted, aiming to analyze how children exposed to domestic violence characterize the barriers and facilitators of social intervention. Through two databases, 8 articles were found, related to adolescents’ perspectives on social intervention in situations of domestic violence. The participants were children aged 12-18 years, who were witnesses of violence between parents or who suffered abuses from one/both parent(s). Findings demonstrated the main factors of social intervention that children recognized as being negative and unhelpful (barriers), and as being positive and helpful (facilitators). The identified barriers were lateness, mistrust, lack of child perspective, passivity, lack of value, malice, boredom, and inaccessibility. On the other hand, the established facilitators were protection, trust, child perspective, active listening, value, accessibility, sympathy, sharing, and information. Implications for social workers are provided, centered on specialized trainings and guidance, and on the use of appropriate methods when intervening with children. Also, the necessity to expand the quantity of research related to the child’s perspective on social intervention is highlighted.

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Syftet med föreliggande studie är att undersöka hur eleverna på ett fritidshem uppfattar sina egna möjligheter till delaktighet och inflytande på fritidshemmet. Med en fenomenografisk forskningsansats har empirin samlats in och bearbetats för att visa på elevernas olika uppfattningar om deras delaktighet och inflytande. Materialet har sedan analyserats med hjälp av barndomssociologin som teoretisk utgångspunkt samt begreppen being, becomings och barns perspektiv. Resultaten visar att en större del av eleverna på fritidshemmet anser att de har möjlighet att påverka innehållet i verksamheten, när det gäller styrda och fria aktiviteter. Dock är elevernas uppfattningar om hur detta går till varierande och flera elever önskar sig samtidigt större möjligheter till delaktighet och inflytande. Resultaten visar även att eleverna tänker olika kring vilka sammanhang de helst skulle vilja vara med och bestämma i. / The purpose of this study is to explore how pupils at one leisure time centre (LTC) perceive their opportunities of participation and influence. With Phenomenography as a research approach the empirical data has been obtained and processed to indicate the pupil’s different perceptions of their participation and influence. The theoretical framework for the analysis is a combination of childhood sociology, being, becomings and child’s perspectives. Results show that a majority of the pupils feel that they are given opportunities to participate and influence the activities at the LTC. There is however a variation of the pupils perceptions of how this is made and several pupils wish that they were given more opportunities to participate and influence. Results also show that the pupils have different ideas of what context they would rather see themselves being able to influence the LTC.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur yrkesverksamma upplever att barnperspektivet beaktas i ärenden där barn har minst en frihetsberövad förälder. Intervjuer med fem yrkesverksamma inom Kriminalvården, Socialtjänsten och Bufff (Barn och ungdom med förälder/familjemedlem i fängelse) har genomförts, samt analyserats med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Det framkom tre kategorier och sex subkategorier av analysen. Av resultatet framkom att det är av vikt att beakta ett barnperspektiv i ärenden där barn har minst en frihetsberövad förälder. I studien framkom också att de yrkesverksamma arbetar utefter barnet på olika sätt beroende på vilken aktör de arbetar inom. Samt att samverkan har en betydelse för hur arbetet kring dessa barn sker idag och i framtiden. Avsikten med studien är att bidra med en medvetenhet kring vikten av att se till vad som är bäst för barnet i ärenden där barn har minst en frihetsberövad förälder. Resultatet visar också på vilken betydelse yrkesverksammas arbete och utförande har för dessa barn. / The main purpose of this study was to examine how professionals experience that the child’s perspective is considered in cases where children have at least one parent in custody. Interviews with five professionals working within probation service, social service and ”Bufff” (Child and youth with parent/family member in custody) have been completed, and analysed using a qualitative content analysis. The analysis generated three categories and six sub-categories. Results show that it is of great importance to consider a child’s perspective in cases where children have at least one parent in custody. The study also shows that professionals work differently according to the child’s needs depending on the area in which they work, and that cooperation and communication is of great importance for how the work is handled today and hereafter. The intention of the study was to contribute with an awareness about the importance of looking at the child’s needs in cases where the child has at least one parent in custody. The results also show that the work and how it is performed is of great importance for these children.

Huvudsyftet med denna studie är att belysa komplexiteten i familjerättens utredningar gällande umgänge i relation till handlingsutrymme, barnperspektiv samt ett barns perspektiv. Tolv familjerättssekreterare i nio olika kommuner har intervjuats enligt en semistrukturerad intervjudesign. Insamlad data har sedan analyserats för att belysa de aspekter som skildrar familjerättssekreterarnas upplevelse kring hur deras utredningar utförs. Resultatet påvisar att informanternas arbete gällande den materiella utredningen har stora likheter med varandra, men att tillvägagångssättet under utredningarna skiljer sig åt mellan dem, både när det kommer till tidsåtgång, antal barnsamtal samt nyttjandet av manualer eller metoder. Studien påvisar även att familjerättssekreterarna upplever sig ha en hög grad av handlingsutrymme som de värnar om, då detta utgör möjligheten till att göra bedömningar utifrån det enskilda barnets bästa i dennes unika situation. / The main purpose of this study is to shed light on the complexity of family court investigations regarding visitation rights in relation to scope of action, child perspective and a child’s perspective. Twelve family court secretaries at nine different municipalities have been interviewed according to a semi-structured interview design. Collected data has then been analyzed to shed light on the aspects that the family court secretaries experience regarding how their investigations are conducted. The result shows that the work of the informants regarding the material investigations has great similarities, but that the procedure during the investigations differs between them, both when it comes to time spent on the investigations, the number of discourse with the child and the use of manuals or methods. The study also shows that the family court secretaries experience that they have a high level of scope of action which they cherish, as this forms the opportunity to make assessments based on the individual child's best interests in its unique situation.

Studiens syfte är att bidra med kunskap om hur förskollärare resonerar kring att beakta barns intresse i sin undervisningsplanering. I studien undersöks vilka fördelar och utmaningar förskollärarna har funnit avseende att beakta barns intresse i undervisningsplaneringen. Studien bygger på intervjuer med sex förskollärare från olika förskolor. I analysen används begreppen - den efterföljande guidningen och den lockande modifieringen samt barns perspektiv och barnperspektivet. Resultatet indikerar att det finns fördelar som motiverar att beakta barns intresse i undervisningsplaneringen i förskolan. Slutsatser som dras gällande fördelar med att beakta barnens intresse i undervisningsplanering är; att barnen får utrymme att utforska sitt intresse vidare, de får utrymme att lyfta sina tankar och undervisningen blir lustfylld för barnen. Att beakta barnens intresse har även fördelar som möjliggör en progression i barnens färdighets- och kunskapsutveckling. En slutsats är att det är en utmaning att beakta alla barns intresse och att barnens intresse prioriteras ned när det finns krav som kommer ovanifrån eller utifrån. När det bedöms att ett barn har ett ökat utvecklingsbehov finns det en tendens att barnets intresse prioriteras ned. En slutsats är att det finns en risk att förskollärarna bortser från de fördelar som finns med att beakta barnens intresse i undervisningsplaneringen. Det finns olika tillvägagångssätt som förskollärarna använder när de planerar sin undervisning för att sträva efter att beakta barnens intressen.