This study demonstrates that there is variety of treatment interventions for children exposed to intimate violence. These interventions are differentiated in design but a common ground for them all is that they strive to provide a chance for children exposed to intimate violence, to be able to speak about and process their feelings and violent experiences. The study’s aim is to, with a qualitative approach, seek understanding for the different actors who practice social work, see upon their task in the treatment interventions that are provided for children exposed to intimate partner violence. The study is based on mapping the existing treatment interventions for previously mentioned target group, in Malmö. Concerned actors for this study are socialtjänsten (the Social Services), Barnkriscentrum (Children Crisis center), Maskrosen Söder (Dandelion South), Rädda Barnen (Save the Children International) and Barn- och ungdomspsykiatrin (BUP, Children- and youth psychiatry). For a deeper understanding and analyzing of the study’s results, we will use system theory and previous research in the actual disciplinary field. The result shows that concerned treatment interventions in most cases are without aid from the Social Services, which means that the Social Services do not grant these interventions. It is shown that they only recommend treatment interventions done by other intervening actors. Only one of the totals concerned actors, work with a treatment intervention that is granted by the Social Services. When the treatment intervention is heading to its end, it is shown that the professionals usually take the initiative for this kind of decisions. But they usually pay regards to the family’s wishes and needs. The final descicision of a treatment interventions’ ending is taken by the collective consisting of three parties, which are the Social Services, the family in treatment and the actors providing the actual treatment.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how children who have been exposed to violence between their parents are involved in the social workers investigation process. For this study the empirical material has been collected through six qualitative and semi-structured interviews with social workers who are working with child protection cases. Through the study we explore social workers' descriptions of the children's involvement, and what factors they emphasize as limiting and enabling for the children's participation in the investigation process. By an analysis with the help of The Lundy model and Shier’s model of participation, we found out that children's age and maturity are a recurring pattern in terms of the extent to which children become involved and how their opinions are taken into account in the investigation process. The interviewees emphasize that there are different ways to involve the children based on children's different conditions, for example through observations and conversation methods. There are no one-sided explanations of how children exposed to violence were involved in social workers' investigation processes, but participation was influenced by a number of factors. The factors that the interviewees describe as limiting and enabling are structures in the organization, laws and methods, and parents.