Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur gode män för huvudmän med insatser enligt LSS tolkar sitt uppdrag sörja för person och ser på möjligheterna att utföra det. Vi utgick från följande frågeställningar: Hur definierar de intervjuade gode männen sitt uppdrag sörja för person? Hur beskriver de intervjuade gode männen det handlingsutrymme de upplever sig ha i uppdraget? Vilka utmaningar upplever de intervjuade gode männen i sitt uppdrag? Studien baseras på kvalitativa intervjuer som utgått från en halvstrukturerad, temaindelad intervjuguide. Vi intervjuade fem gode män i en mellanstor stad i Sverige. Resultaten visar att gode männen hade svårt att definiera och avgränsa uppdraget sörja för person. Detta i samband med huvudmannens funktionsnedsättning innebär utmaningar för den som åtar sig uppdraget, exempelvis då huvudmannen lider av psykisk ohälsa. Vi fann att gode männen hade olika strategier för att använda sitt handlingsutrymme utifrån tidigare kunskaper och erfarenheter. Vidare beskrev de gode männen att den största utmaningen fanns i att bygga en god relation med huvudmannen. Slutligen diskuteras vikten av gode mäns personliga och professionella kompetens, för att kunna möta huvudmannens behov. / The purpose of this study was to examine how curators for persons with services under LSS interprets the mission, ensuring the person, and how they feel about their possibilities to execute the mission. The study started from the following questions: How does the interviewed curators define the mission, ensuring the person? How does the interviewed curators describe the discretion they experience in the mission? What challenges do the interviewed curators meet in their mission? The study is based on qualitative interviews that started from a half structured theme divided interview guide. We interviewed five curators in a medium sized city in Sweden. The results show that the curators found it difficult to define and delimit the assignment ensure the person. This, in conjunction with a persons disability poses challenges for those who undertake the mission. We found that the interviewed curators had different strategies to use their discretion based on previous knowledge and experiences. Further described the curators that the biggest challenge was to build a good relationship with the person with disability. Finally, we discuss the importance of curators personal and professional skills, in order to meet the needs of a person with disability. / <p>85</p>

<p>Studiens syfte var att öka kunskapen och förståelsen för hur det fungerar att ha en förälder som god man utifrån den enskildes perspektiv. De frågeställningar som låg till grund för syftet rörde hur relationen påverkades av att föräldern var god man, hur personen upplever sitt beroende av föräldern och fördelar och nackdelar med föräldern som god man. I studien användes socialkonstruktionismen som visar på omgivningens betydelse, interpersonell makt och integreringsteorin. Fem kvalitativa intervjuer ligger till grund för undersökningen. Till intervjuerna användes en temainriktad intervjuguide för att underlätta. Litteraturgranskningen visade att det fanns ont om rapporter som tar upp temat förälder som god man och att det då främst lade perspektivet ur den gode mannens synvinkel. Den tidigare forskningen visar att det finns fördelar och nackdelar med föräldrar som gode män men att det kan vara svårt när man vill känna sig självständig. Resultatet har visat att det kan vara bättre med en utomstående god man än en förälder bland annat för att det kan hämma individens möjlighet att bli självständig.</p>

Studiens syfte var att öka kunskapen och förståelsen för hur det fungerar att ha en förälder som god man utifrån den enskildes perspektiv. De frågeställningar som låg till grund för syftet rörde hur relationen påverkades av att föräldern var god man, hur personen upplever sitt beroende av föräldern och fördelar och nackdelar med föräldern som god man. I studien användes socialkonstruktionismen som visar på omgivningens betydelse, interpersonell makt och integreringsteorin. Fem kvalitativa intervjuer ligger till grund för undersökningen. Till intervjuerna användes en temainriktad intervjuguide för att underlätta. Litteraturgranskningen visade att det fanns ont om rapporter som tar upp temat förälder som god man och att det då främst lade perspektivet ur den gode mannens synvinkel. Den tidigare forskningen visar att det finns fördelar och nackdelar med föräldrar som gode män men att det kan vara svårt när man vill känna sig självständig. Resultatet har visat att det kan vara bättre med en utomstående god man än en förälder bland annat för att det kan hämma individens möjlighet att bli självständig.

This study illustrates how the power relation between the trustee and principals are experienced and maintained in proportion to the missions design. The main focus lies on understanding of how trustee perceives and applies the mission`s cornerstones and how power can be expressed in the relationship between trustees and principals. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with trustees whose principals were mentally disabled. The interviews were then analyzed with the support of Foucault's concept of discipline, knowledge, control, surveillance and reward/punishment and Tilly's theory of persistent inequality We have obtained an understanding of the complexity of the assignment regarding the mission`s cornerstones who goes into every other, and all respondents agreed that the cornerstones should be considered as a whole. We concluded that the trustee on the basis of the mission's design possesses a power that is necessary and important to have regarding the relation to his principal and its social network. Half of the trustees were well aware of the power they possess; however, all agreed that power is a negatively charged word that not necessarily needs to be operated in the guardianship. We could, based on empirical data, see that the power is used in various ways, both directly and indirectly against their principals and its social networks.

The aim of this study was to examine constructions of the guardianship to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. More specifically its aim was to, through the guardians’ perspective, understand and analyze how they construct the guardianship. The study was based on individual semi-structured interviews with questions concerning the guardianship and the role as a guardian. Seven interview-participants, who are active as guardians in diverse municipalities in southern Sweden, are included in this study. The analysis was based on how the guardians describe the assignments in the guardianship, the unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and their needs and how they describe the relationship to them. As a conclusion we found two different constructions of the guardianship; one characterized by a guardianship based on limits, distance, clarity of role and assignments and a guardian similar to a tutor. The other perspective is characterized by a guardianship based on no limits for assignments, a close and familiar relationship to the children and a guardian similar to a parent or a friend. We found that the guardians are dominated by different types of social actions that affect the guardianship based on how they constructed the guardianship, the unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and the relationship.

The dissertation is about people with serious functional impairments who receive support pursuant to the Swedish LSS – the Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments. LSS gives compensatory support, so that a person can enjoy the right to live a life like anyone else. The user’s right to influence and self-determination is emphasized in the Act. The overall aim of the dissertation is to describe and analyse conditions, possibilities, and limitations to influence and self-determination for people receiving LSS support. The investigation includes two interview studies. One is a study of influence and self-determination in everyday life with personal assistance. The other study focuses on people receiving some form of LSS service in combination with having a limited guardian. The thesis shows that LSS can be understood on a general level as a judicial recognition of the group’s right to support for citizenship on individual terms. In many cases LSS service give the user influence and self-determination in everyday life. The interaction between the user and the supporting persons are crucial. If it involves mutual recognition of equality and recognition of difference – the right to be compensated for restricted abilities – then the user can act autonomously. The study deals with power and recognition as essential aspects. The analysis shows that recognition and power together contribute to an understanding of the complex situation that users of LSS measures have in their day-to-day lives. The intention behind the care is to ensure the user’s best interest. Relations and encounters around the user are affected by pastoral power with a caring purpose where support and control are interwoven. Mis-directed recognition is perceived as an infringement of integrity. The dilemma is that care that aims for something good without recognition reduces the user to an object and disrespect. The studies reveal a tension between the ideal of influence and self-determination as ”subject of rights” and the user’s everyday life. Personal assistance can be designed to contribute to achieving the intentions. Among many people receiving LSS support and having a legal guardian, the personal influence and self-determination are not distinct and guardianship is unclear. Relations are characterized by dilemmas concerning the preferential right of interpretation. The individuals are seen as “objects of care” by others. Influence and self-determination depend on a fundamental recognition of the user as subject with a need for individually adapted care. This means the right to be and act as a “subject of care”. Recognition, relations and power are keys to influence and self-determination in LSS.