Kuratorer inom palliativ vård arbetar dagligen med döende patienter och existentiella samtal är vanligt förekommande. I tidigare forskning fanns inga perspektiv från palliativa kuratorer i frågor om existentiella samtal. Det framgick även att utbildning ofta saknades när vårdgivare höll denna typ av samtal. Därför undersöker studien hur palliativa kuratorer samtalar om existentiella ämnen när detta inte ingår i socionomutbildningen. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur kuratorer inom palliativ vård arbetar med existentiella frågor i patientsamtal, för att kunna dra lärdomar om hur denna typ av frågor kan hanteras i kurativa samtal. Med en emotionssociologisk teoriram analyseras empirin från sex intervjuer med kuratorer inom palliativ vård. Detta för att kunna synliggöra den tysta kunskapen, exempelvis känsla av trygghet, emotionsuttryck och erfarenhet från samtal som enligt tidigare forskning ofta utgör grunden för existentiella samtal. Resultaten visar att kuratorer samtalar om meningsskapande, spiritualitet och döden, där känslor av sorg, ilska och glädje uppkommer. De palliativa kuratorerna upplever att de är bekväma att samtala om existentiella frågor, trots att de sällan fått särskild utbildning för detta. Denna trygghet kommer av en längre erfarenhet inom dessa typer av samtal, där kuratorn inte kan bistå patienten med något svar på hens frågor. I stället arbetar kuratorn med att normalisera patientens tankar och känslor samt med att stödja om patienten uttrycker existentiell oro. Kuratorerna upplevde att det finns en emotionell börda i deras yrken och hade olika sätt att hantera denna. Olika hanteringssätt innebar att ha en delad tjänst, ha tydliga gränser mellan privat- och arbetsliv och att få kollegialt stöd. / Counsellors in palliative care meet dying patients daily and conversations about existential issues are very common. In previous research there were no perspectives on conversations about existential matters from palliative counsellors. It was also made clear that education was often lacking when caregivers held these types of conversations. Therefore, this study examines how palliative counsellors converse about existential topics when this is not included in the social work education. The aim of this study was to investigate how counsellors in palliative care handle existential matters in patient conversations, to learn how this type of issues can be handled in counselling. The study uses a theoretical framework based on the sociology of emotions to analyze the empirical data from six interviews with counsellors in palliative care. This to make visible the tacit knowledge, for example a feeling of security, emotional expression, and experience from conversations, which according to previous research often constitutes the basis for existential conversations. The results show that counsellors converse about meaning-making, spirituality, and death, where feelings of sadness, anger and joy arise. Palliative counsellors feel comfortable talking about existential matters, even though they have rarely received any education for this. This feeling of security comes from a long experience with these types of conversations, where the counsellor cannot assist the patient with any answer to their questions. Instead, the counsellor works to normalize the patient's thoughts and feelings and to support if the patient expresses existential worry. The counsellors experienced that there is an emotional burden in their professions and had different ways of dealing with it. Different management methods were having a divided employment, having clear boundaries between private and working life and receiving collegial support. / <p>Opponering skedde digitalt via Zoom. </p>

This study aims to discuss the conditions for a curative work with detained children in Sweden. Furthermore we will illuminate the connection between the conditions and the different professional roles at the detention centers. Along with this discussion we want to shed light on the psychosocial health of detained children to see if there is a need for curative work. The two research questions are: ●  What are the conditions for curative work for detained children? ●  In what way do professional roles affect the conditions for curative work? The method that was used to examine our research questions was semi-structured interviews with professionals working with detained children in the same arena but with different approaches. The interviews were conducted with seven people. Five of whom are employed by Kriminalvården (The Swedish correctional service - ‘The criminal care’) and two who are employed by an external actor and work with children in detention centres. The result shows that the discretion for curative work differentiates depending on what professional role the person is assigned. It appears that curative work is needed for the children's wellbeing. The result also shows that the guidelines and work ethics of Kriminalvården have not been adapted to the high number of detained children.