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Over 90 percent of police officers in Nigeria are confronted with psychological illness and injuries as a result of occupational stress, which is compounded by a lack of attention to police officer welfare by government, insufficient annual leave, and poor salaries that contribute to poor performance. Using Karasek's demands on decision and control model as the foundation, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the impact of occupational stress on police officers in a metropolitan police agency in Nigeria. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 15 senior police officers who had at least 20 years experience in law enforcement in Nigeria. These data were inductively coded and subjected to thematic analysis that resulted in 8 themes. These themes included insufficient police personnel, limited environmental resources, family-work conflict, unclear work roles, inadequate counselling and training procedures, conflict from job demands, extended working hours, and inadequate salary level as factors contributing to occupational stress. The positive social change implications stemming from this study include recommendations to Nigerian police executives to improve awareness of how to effectively manage factors responsible for occupational stress among police officers to promote a balanced work-life experience, good health, and more professionalism in their duties of protecting life and property.

Problematisk skolfrånvaro är ett socialt problem som ökar och skapar bekymmer i skolvärlden. Syftet med studien har varit att öka kunskapen kring skolkuratorernas upplevelser med arbetet med högstadieelever som har en problematisk skolfrånvaro. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats och sex semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med skolkuratorer på högstadie-nivå. Intervjupersonerna hade socionomexamen och hade arbetat som skolkurator i minst ett år. Insamlade empiri analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys och då utifrån tidigare forskning samt genom Lipskys teoretiska begrepp gräsrotsbyråkrati och handlingsutrymme. Resultatet visar att skolkuratorerna upplever att deras roll som skolkurator är otydlig och samtliga har, någon gång under sin tjänst, känt sig ensam i sin profession i skolan. Skolkuratorerna upplever även att arbetet med problematisk skolfrånvaro kunnat utföras annorlunda om det fanns mer resurser för arbete med problematisk skolfrånvaro. Arbetet med elever som har problematisk skolfrånvaro kräver god samverkan med både interna aktörer inom skolan och externa aktörer såsom socialtjänst. Omständigheter, som individuella-, skol- eller familjerelaterade svårigheter, ofta komplexa och i kombination upplevs av skolkuratorerna ligga bakom problematisk skolfrånvaro. / School absence among teenagers is a social problem that increases and contributes to challenges within the school system. The purpose of this study has been to gain an understanding regarding school councelors work in relation to students within the upper secondary education system, and their problematic abscence from school. It does so by using a qualitative method and by utilising six semi-structured interviews with school councelors currently working within the swedish upper secondary education system. The respondents have a bachelor degree in social work and have been working within the field for a minimum of one year. The collected empirical data was analyzed with the help of previous research as well as Lipskys theoretical concept of grassroots bureaucracy and room of action. The study shows that the school counselors experience in regards to their role as school counselors is uncertain, and that all respondents, at least once during their employment, have experienced some degree of loneliness. They have also experienced that the problematic school abscence among teenagers could be different, if the educational system as a whole had more availaible resources. In addition to this the school counselors highlighted the importance of internal cooperation (within the school system) and external cooperation (with, for example, social services). Regarding the underlying circumstances of problematic school abscence among teenagers the school counselors refers to individual, school or family related challenges. In its conclusion the study shows that a combination of the factors above contributes to problematic school abscence among teenagers.