The aim of this study was to reach knowledge and increase the understanding of high school students’ experiences of school climate, achievements in school and their reflections on their relations within and outside of school. The relations included in this study was relations to teachers, classmates, friends outside school and relations to family members. The purpose of this study was to highlight in what way school and relations affects the adolescents’ mental health. The study is based on 6 qualitative interviews with female high school students in a smaller municipality in Sweden. The interviews were analyzed using meaning interpretation. Main results show that both achievements in school and relations affect the adolescents’ mental health considerably. The results indicate that all aspects considered in the study, school climate, school achievements, relations to teachers, classmates, friends and family members, relate to and affect each other. Furthermore the results show that all these aspects have an impact on the adolescents’ mental health in different ways. The conclusion is that close relationships and the attachment within those affect the adolescents’ self-images and their identity and therefore have an impact on their mental health.

<p>The purpose with our research in Varbergs Kurort is to study how persons that have been a part of the individual adjusted rehabilitation program First Step have found their stay during their program. The program holds a team of professionals that together work with the individual’s physical and mental health. In our study we have included eight women and to men in the age between 35-65 years who all suffered from a slight mentally illness. Out of a social psychological perspective we have based our study from the social and room environment and how their self-recovery has affected their wellbeing during their rehabilitation. In our study we have out of qualitative interviews put together our results. The interviews were out of a narrative character where the persons told us about parts out of their lives. Our results shows that there is a huge individual development depending on what faze they are in their depression ore on their way recovering from depression. Most of them felt an enormous support from the staff and by meeting people in similar situations as their own. Also the beautiful surroundings had a positive effect of their recovering. The results have been analysed from Johan Asplunds theory about <em>social responses</em> and <em>unsocial responses</em>, how the social environment affects the individual. We also made an environmental psychological analysis with the theory about <em>restorative surroundings</em> and the term <em>cognitive maps</em> that makes the spatial environmental affects of the individual rehabilitation.</p>

The purpose with our research in Varbergs Kurort is to study how persons that have been a part of the individual adjusted rehabilitation program First Step have found their stay during their program. The program holds a team of professionals that together work with the individual’s physical and mental health. In our study we have included eight women and to men in the age between 35-65 years who all suffered from a slight mentally illness. Out of a social psychological perspective we have based our study from the social and room environment and how their self-recovery has affected their wellbeing during their rehabilitation. In our study we have out of qualitative interviews put together our results. The interviews were out of a narrative character where the persons told us about parts out of their lives. Our results shows that there is a huge individual development depending on what faze they are in their depression ore on their way recovering from depression. Most of them felt an enormous support from the staff and by meeting people in similar situations as their own. Also the beautiful surroundings had a positive effect of their recovering. The results have been analysed from Johan Asplunds theory about social responses and unsocial responses, how the social environment affects the individual. We also made an environmental psychological analysis with the theory about restorative surroundings and the term cognitive maps that makes the spatial environmental affects of the individual rehabilitation.