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This thesis explores the concept of family engagement in education and school-based rehabilitation services and contributes to practice and policy implications. / In pediatric occupational therapy, family-centered service is an essential part of practice. Working with families, occupational therapists facilitate capacity-building to enable parents to participate in their child’s occupational therapy services and make informed choices to best support their child. Family engagement can be particularly challenging in the school-based context, but without this engagement, services are at risk of being less meaningful and impactful for children. In this thesis, I explore the unique nature of the educational context, contribute to the conceptual development of ‘family engagement’, provide an in-depth analysis of family engagement in school-based occupational therapy, and generate stakeholder-informed solutions for occupational therapy practice. The first manuscript depicts a concept analysis that critically analyzes the concept of family engagement as discussed in the education literature. I suggest implications for professionals working with families and children in educational settings, including a proposed definition to contribute to further concept development. In the second manuscript, I present a qualitative description study exploring occupational therapists’ experiences on the development of family-therapist relationships using the Partnering for Change service delivery model. Through analysis of the data, I identify several factors influencing family-therapist relationships and recommend strategies to improve relationship-building. In the last study, I present an interpretive description study exploring family engagement in school-based occupational therapy services from the perspectives of both occupational therapists and families. Based on the findings, I recommend service transformation to improve family engagement, and to increase the value of these services for children and their families. Specific strategies for therapists, organizations, schools, regulatory colleges, and professional practice groups are outlined in this thesis to facilitate family engagement in school-based occupational therapy practice. Ensuring families are able to engage in services may lead to more individualized and impactful services in the school setting. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Pediatric occupational therapists aim to partner with the family in all aspects of a child’s service. However, this is difficult for school-based occupational therapists. Families are not typically present at the school when therapists provide services for children, making it difficult to build relationships. This thesis explores factors that impact on how families are able to engage in the school-setting, and on how to provide families with better support. The first study examines how families engage in children’s education, and what this means for school-based therapists. The second study explores therapists’ views of what influences family-therapist relationships in a school-based service delivery model called Partnering for Change. The final study explores family engagement in school-based occupational therapy from the perspective of both families and therapists. Findings from all three studies contribute to a better understanding of what family engagement means in the school-setting, and how to build stronger family-therapist relationships in school-based occupational therapy services.

In order to address the managerial leadership challenge of the educational psychologist cohort, it seems fundamentally superficial to make direct use of conventional management theories, scientific data, and empirical evidence from managers’ work practices in other contexts. The current research explored the influence of managerial leadership on the professional performance of educational psychologist in relation to service delivery models, management appointments, workload management and educational psychologists’ engagement in clinical supervision. Managers need to gain better understand of the influence of managerial leadership on the professional performance of educational psychologists and use contemporary empirical and scientific data to guide their managerial leadership practice. The explanatory sequential mixed-methods research approach was best suited to the early stages of research in this arena. The research findings elucidated the influence of service delivery models, described the ideal management appointment, proposed a formal structured workload management system and provided activities for managers to encourage educational psychologists’ engagement in clinical supervision. / Educational Leadership and Management / D. Ed. (Education Management)

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I dag anses molntjänster vara ett omtalat ämne som har ändrat hur IT-tjänster levereras och som skapat nya affärsmodeller. Några av molntjänsternas mest frekvent nämnda fördelar är flexibilitet och skalbarhet. Molntjänster är i dagsläget extensivt använda av privatpersoner genom tjänster så som Google Drive och Dropbox. Å andra sidan kan en viss försiktighet gentemot molntjänster uppmärksammas hos de organisationer som innehar känslig data. Denna försiktighet kan anses leda till en långsammare tillämpningshastighet för dessa organisationer. Detta examensarbete har som syfte att undersöka sambandet mellan molntjänster och känslig data för att kunna erbjuda stöd och kunskapsbas för organisationer som överväger en övergång till molntjänster. Känslig data är definierat som information som omfattas av den svenska Personuppgiftslagen. Tidigare studier visar att organisationer värdesätter en hög säkerhetsgrad vid en övergång till molntjänster och ofta föredrar att leverantören kan erbjuda ett antal säkerhetsmekanismer. En molntjänsts lagliga överensstämmelse är en annan faktor som uppmärksammas. Datainsamlingen skedde genom en enkät, som var riktad till 101 av de svenska organisationerna i syfte att kartlägga användningen av molntjänster samt att identifiera möjliga bromsande faktorer. Dessutom genomfördes tre (3) intervjuer med experter och forskare inom IT-lag och/eller molnlösningar. En analys och diskussion, baserad på resultaten, har genomförts, vilket ledde till slutsatserna att en molnlösning av hybrid karaktär är bäst lämpad för den försiktiga organisationen, de olika villkoren i serviceavtalet bör grundligt diskuteras innan en överenskommelse mellan parter uppnås samt att i syfte att undvika att lösningen blir oförenlig med lagen bör främst en leverantör som är väl etablerad i Sverige väljas. Slutligen, bör varje organisation utvärdera om molntjänster kan tillgodose organisationens säkerhetsbehov, då det i stor mån berör ett risktagande. / Cloud computing is today a hot topic, which has changed how IT is delivered and created new business models to pursue. The main listed benefits of Cloud computing are, among others, flexibility and scalability. It is widely adopted by individuals in services, such as Google Drive and Dropbox. However, there exist a certain degree of precaution towards Cloud computing at organizations, which possess sensitive data, which may decelerate the adoption. Hence, this master thesis aims to investigate the topic of Cloud computing in a combination with sensitive data in order to support organizations in their decision making with a base of knowledge when a transition into the Cloud is considered. Sensitive data is defined as information protected by the Swedish Personal Data Act. Previous studies show that organizations value high degree of security when making a transition into Cloud computing, and request several measures to be implemented by the Cloud computing service provider. Legislative conformation of a Cloud computing service is another important aspect. The data gathering activities consisted of a survey, directed towards 101 Swedish organizations in order to map their usage of Cloud computing services and to identify aspects, which may decelerate the adoption. Moreover, interviews with three (3) experts within the fields of law and Cloud computing were conducted. The results were analyzed and discussed, which led to conclusions that hybrid Cloud is a well chosen alternative for a precautious organization, the SLA between the organizations should be thoroughly negotiated and that primarily providers well established on the Swedish market should be chosen in order to minimize the risk of legally non-consisting solution. Finally, each organization should decide whether the security provided by the Cloud computing provider is sufficient for organization’s purposes.