I have chosen an action research approach for this essay. I want to incorporate a method of conflict management in the work of the personnel at a school and also discuss their thoughts and experience in conflict management. I wanted to incorporate modern knowledge about constructive conflict management for everyday use and I stress that if we can evolve these skills among the personnel in schools then we have a better chance of helping children with deviant behavior which often end up in conflict because of it. This will also help all the other children and personnel to manage conflict situations in a better way. I want to introduce a new way of thinking about conflict management which in many ways is different from how it is today. Briefly the method which I advocate revolves around paying attention to every ones basic needs and says that everyone can win and no one has to loose. he main purpose of this essay has been to find out if focus group conversations is a viable method for improving conflict management in the school system. Several of the participants has in their evaluations written that it was a rewarding and interesting way to work. Some participants also had a reservation that this work took time from our scheduled conferences so we might miss some important information.

This essay has a purpose to understand and investigate how disabled people, where the handicap imply difficulty to speak for one self, get the rights of self-determination and influence satisfied. Our purpose with this essay is to focus on how representatives from organizations, trustees and Support and Service for Persons with Certain functional Impairments- officials (abbreviated LSS after the Swedish title of the Act lag om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade), describe and discuss matters concerning the individuals’ opinions and requests from within their respective position. We will with this as a base analyze how these three parties facilitate and meet the individuals’ influence and self-determination. Through six qualitative interviews with these three parts we have gathered the foundation for our study. We have analyzed our material through role theory and power-perspective. We have also been using three thesis that studies disabled peoples influence and self-determination when in contact with personnel and public authorities. Our result shows that representatives from organizations, trustees and LSS-officials are sensitive to the individuals’ requests and opinions. This is nevertheless experienced as complicated and is dependent on what respective roles these hold. The contact between these parts is also flourished by different power-relations. We argue that the individuals’ self-determination and influence is not as natural as the law states. The individuals’ rights are determined by many different aspects.   Keywords: disabled people, self-determination, influence, representatives from organizations, trustees, LSS-officials.

<p>People with certain types of disabilities have the legal right to ask for an individual plan. The idea is that the plan should be a tool for the disabled to get more power and influence over the planned actions that involves their lives. The aim of this thesis was to study the individual circumstances of interpersonal power and influence in the work of individual plans. The study was done with a qualitative approach, where three executing officers and three individuals were interviewed. The results show that the conditions for the individual’s influence are far more complicated than at first glance. The influence depends on a number of parameters, from the executing officer’s response and inclusion of the individuals, to how the staffs of the operators receive and implement the individual plan. The shortcomings in the implementation were due to the staff having different views than the individual, representatives and executing officers on what to do and what the individual wanted. The thesis conclusions were that the individual's influence depends on the discourse about disability and the work culture prevailing in the workplace. Influence is given from the person that has the power position in the relationship.</p>

<p>Syftet med studien är att beskriva om och i så fall hur individer med ADHD stigmatiseras (stämplas). Vi</p><p>kommer att undersöka om det finns någon påverkan i individens sociala relationer och hur denna påverkan kan</p><p>kommer till uttryck. Vår studie använder sig av tre teman; stigmatisering (stämplingen), sociala relationer och</p><p>arbete. I den tidigare forskning visar vi hur olika grupper av individer stigmatiseras i samhället. Studien</p><p>använder sig av Goffmans teorier om stigmatisering. Vi har även tittat närmre på Howard S. Becker han talar</p><p>istället om stämpling och etikettering, vi gjorde ett val mellan dessa två teoretiker och valde Goffman.</p><p>Goffmans stigmatiseringsteori passar vår studie bra när det gäller vårt syfte och frågeställningar. Vi använder</p><p>oss utav en hermeneutisk utgångspunkt. Hermeneutiken är ett verktyg som hjälper forskarna att förstå och lyfta</p><p>fram individers olika upplevelser. Vår empiri består av nio intervjuer; varav åtta av dem har diagnosen ADHD</p><p>och är i åldern 19-38 och den nionde är en hjälpare från arbetsförmedlingen. Hjälparen arbetar med individer</p><p>som har funktionshindret ADHD. I vår slutdiskussion kan vi tolka det så att våra respondenter uttrycker att de</p><p>har upplevt stigma av något slag. De tolkningar som vi har gjort genom de svar som respondenten har lämnat</p><p>till oss ligger till grund för en ny förståelse när det gäller vuxna individer med ADHD. När vi tolkar och tar</p><p>fram det existentiella i frågan om sociala relationer tolkar vi att detta innebär svårigheter för dessa individer</p><p>med funktionshindret ADHD. För att vi ska kunna lyfta fram det personliga i varje svar krävs det att forskarna</p><p>är öppna och lyhörda så att inget går förlorat. När vi gör vår tolkning när det gäller den sociala sfären samt på</p><p>arbetet möter vi individen på den nivån han/hon befinner sig på.</p>

<p>Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka lindrigt utvecklingsstördas föräldraförmåga och vilka stöd- och hjälpinsatser samhället har att erbjuda dessa föräldrar. Den teoretiska bakgrunden redogör för begreppen handikappmedvetande och normaliseringsprincipen, samt att föräldraskapet för lindrigt utvecklingsstörda föräldrar kan innebära svårigheter att tillfredsställa barns behov. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med en socialsekreterare, en kurator på vuxenhabiliteringen samt två socionomer på en öppenvårdsverksamhet har undersökningen kommit fram till att lindrigt utvecklingsstörda föräldrar på olika sätt brister i sin föräldraförmåga. Detta innebär att det krävs kontinuerliga stöd- och hjälpinsatser från samhället. För att följa normaliseringsprincipen krävs det att samhället också ställer upp med ekonomiska resurser.</p>

<p>Syftet med uppsatsen är att med hjälp av intervjuer få en fördjupad kunskap om unga vuxnas erfarenheter av att leva med läs- och skrivsvårigheter eller dyslexi. Studien belyser om och hur individers identitetsskapande har påverkats av diagnosen.  Detta behandlas genom olika teman i analysdelen, såsom skoltiden, livet före diagnosen, att berätta, arbetsliv, påverkan på val i livet/fritiden och krav. Den tidigare forskningen som har gjorts är mycket utförlig och sträcker sig över ett stort fält och den tidigare forskningen som har använts i denna studie handlar om individers upplevelser om att leva med diagnosen läs- och skrivsvårigheter eller dyslexi. Däremot har denna forskning angränsat sig till antagligen barn eller vuxna, det finns ingen forskning som inriktar sig på unga vuxna det vill säga individer mellan 20-35 år. De individer som har avslutat sin skolgång och ska ge sig ut i arbetslivet och det är dem som är i fokus i denna studie.Ur informanternas berättelser går det att urskilja att deras identitetsskapande har påverkats av att ha fått diagnosen och fortfarande påverkas av att ha diagnosen, genom att se på exempelvis att informanternas syn på sig själva har ändrats. De har accepterat diagnosen och funnit en styrka och trygghet att ha den. Det är till stor del informanternas erfarenheter och upplevelser av detta som har fått dem att omvärdera synen på sig själva, deras uppfattning av andras syn på dem och deras syn på människor i deras omgivning.</p>

<p>Both England and Sweden has an aim to improving the health of those groups that are most vulnerable to ill health, and those groups in society, who are most vulnerable to ill health, are also those who face the most discrimination.</p><p>The main purpose of this paper is to study how female mental health service user/survivor experiences their health. The paper is composed of two studies carried out in a city in Sweden and a city in England, UK.  Four women from Sweden participated and two from England, UK. The empiric material has been collected by semi-structured interviews and the method that has been used for analysing the material was qualitative content analysis.</p><p>The result shows that almost all of the women did experience discrimination. Almost all of the women that did experience discrimination did also express that experience of discrimination also influenced their health in a negative way. However, all of the women also resisted the experience of an oppressive society and the view that they are just “victims”, by reclaiming their identity and experiencing a collective identity or a self-identity. These experiences of identity have given them a sense of wellbeing and health.</p>

The purpose of this thesis was to improve the understanding of what cognitive functions are important for driving performance, investigate the impact of impaired cognitive functions on drivers with brain injury, and study adaptation strategies relevant for driving performance after brain injury. Finally, the predictive value of a neuropsychological test battery was evaluated for driving performance. Main results can be summarized in the following conclusions: (a) Cognitive functions in terms of attentional and dynamic working memory-related functions are relevant for driving performance. (b) Neuropsychological impairments in information processing speed, divided and focused attention, requiring working memory, are associated to limitations in driving performance. In addition, qualitative aspects of driving problems especially impaired anticipatory attention appeared to constrain driving performance. (c) A neuropsychological test battery assessing speed of information processing and attention in terms of working memory predicted driving performance. In addition, cognitive factors are relevant for interpretation of driving problems qualitatively. (d) Driving speed adjustment and anticipatory attention were adaptive strategies for driving after brain injury. Interest in driving, motivation for driving safely, and driving experience appeared also relevant for driving after brain injury. (e) Collaboration between medical, neuropsychological and driving expertise is recommended for a total evaluation of driving performance after brain injury. Anticipatory attention was considered a working memory based attentional system, directing the processing resources flexibly and appropriately between the different information processing components. Thus, anticipatory attention demonstrated qualitatively that working memory is a prominent function in a real driving context.

People with certain types of disabilities have the legal right to ask for an individual plan. The idea is that the plan should be a tool for the disabled to get more power and influence over the planned actions that involves their lives. The aim of this thesis was to study the individual circumstances of interpersonal power and influence in the work of individual plans. The study was done with a qualitative approach, where three executing officers and three individuals were interviewed. The results show that the conditions for the individual’s influence are far more complicated than at first glance. The influence depends on a number of parameters, from the executing officer’s response and inclusion of the individuals, to how the staffs of the operators receive and implement the individual plan. The shortcomings in the implementation were due to the staff having different views than the individual, representatives and executing officers on what to do and what the individual wanted. The thesis conclusions were that the individual's influence depends on the discourse about disability and the work culture prevailing in the workplace. Influence is given from the person that has the power position in the relationship.

Both England and Sweden has an aim to improving the health of those groups that are most vulnerable to ill health, and those groups in society, who are most vulnerable to ill health, are also those who face the most discrimination. The main purpose of this paper is to study how female mental health service user/survivor experiences their health. The paper is composed of two studies carried out in a city in Sweden and a city in England, UK.  Four women from Sweden participated and two from England, UK. The empiric material has been collected by semi-structured interviews and the method that has been used for analysing the material was qualitative content analysis. The result shows that almost all of the women did experience discrimination. Almost all of the women that did experience discrimination did also express that experience of discrimination also influenced their health in a negative way. However, all of the women also resisted the experience of an oppressive society and the view that they are just “victims”, by reclaiming their identity and experiencing a collective identity or a self-identity. These experiences of identity have given them a sense of wellbeing and health.