The aim of this study was to explore what working methods and tools service providers use to engage with and support homeless youth in Eugene, Oregon. The authors considered a qualitative research method with semi-structured interviews as the most appropriate way to collect data. A total of five participants took part in this study, all of which are service providers in the United States, specifically in Eugene, Oregon (OR) and work directly with homeless youth. The empirical findings were analyzed through the ecological systems theory perspective in order to properly explore the effects different systems have on working methods and tools. The data collected in this study was divided into three themes: Engaging and Supportive Tools, Barriers & Supportive Factors and desired changes by service providers. These themes properly highlight the most common and vital information collected from the participants in this study. The findings indicate trust building as an essential method and tool with any service provider attempting to engage with and support homeless youth. It was also discovered that funding was the biggest barrier that service providers faced when exploring working methods and tools used to engage with and support homeless youth.

Abstract    Title        School counsellors work with children and youths who are exposed to honor-related violence and oppression, in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child- A qualitative study.   Authors          Elinor Arnaout and Julia Johansson   Honor-related violence and oppression (HrvaO) is a phenomenon that has received increasing attention in the media, among others. This is especially so after the case of Fadime, who in 2002 was murdered by his father as a result of violating his family's code of honor. The starting point in HrvaO is that women's sexuality is something that must be controlled in order to preserve the family's honor (Länsstyrelsen, 2018). In an interview study, the aim was to investigate what tools and knowledge school counsellors perceive they have to work with HrvaO among high school students. Furthermore, the purpose was to investigate how the parties identify the vulnerability among the students. In addition, the authors have examined how the school counsellors work with HrvaO mainly in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It imposes requirements on all relevant professionals, including counsellors, taking into account the best interests of the child in all decisions taken with a view to protecting the child. Consequently, it was of interest to examine whether school counselors’ work with HrvaO has changed since the Convention on the Rights of the Child became law in Sweden in 2020.   The results of the study have shown that the Convention on the Rights of the Child has not made it easier for the counsellors, which they explain is due to the fact that the Convention on the Rights of the Child does not provide any practical application in the work with vulnerable students. Furthermore, the study has shown that the school counsellors have tools for working with students who are exposed to HrvaO in the form of conversation methodology, contact with social services, honor-groups and relationship building. The conclusion is that HrvaO is a complex subject that needs to be researched to a greater extent in order to promote the professional's acquisition of knowledge. This is especially apparent when various dilemmas arise in the workplace where the professional experiences difficulties in prioritizing "the right solution". Keywords  Honor-related violence and oppression, school counsellors, Convention on the rights of the child, work methods.

No / This article reflects on the debates about Evidence Based Practice and suggests a new approach to implementing a more reflexive and research aware social work practice in professional teams. We show that there has been a substantial focus on the responsibility of individual professionals for using best evidence to guide their practice and on the organisation to provide an environment and policies suited to EBP. We argue that there is a need to balance this by an increased focus on the professional and team culture in which social work takes place. We draw on the literature on organisational change and social work research to suggest a new direction for encouraging greater reflexivity and developing a more open participative approach to the use of evidence to shape new practices in social work at the local level.

Forskningen visar att språket är viktig när det kommer till vård. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur vårdgivare inom hemtjänsten hanterar och uppfattar språksvårigheter med äldre invandrare som inte kan svenska. För att besvara syftet har kvalitativa, semi-strukturerade intervjuer genomförts med sex stycken vårdpersonal inom hemtjänsten. Resultatet visar att språksvårigheter är vanligt förekommande men att det inte alltid behöver vara ett problem. För att hantera språkskillnaderna användes bland annat teckenspråk, kroppsspråk, ögonkontakt samt beröring. Utförliga besöksplaner, kontaktmannaskap och kontinuitet användes som arbetsredskap för att förebygga missförstånd och underlätta kommunikationen. Det rådde olika meningar huruvida de äldre invandrarna var ensamma och isolerade. Personalen upplevde att de äldre upplevde språksvårigheterna som jobbiga, blev ledsna, arga och kände hopplöshet. Skapandet av goda relationer påverkades inte av språksvårigheterna ansåg fyra av sex intervjupersoner. Antaganden användes inte för att underlätta språksvårigheterna då de behandlade alla individuellt. Tillmötesgående, förtroendeingivande, sunt förnuft och vänlighet var ord som förknippades med positivt bemötande. / Research shows that language is important when it comes to healthcare. This study aims to investigate how caregivers in home care handle and understand language difficulties with older immigrants who don’t speak Swedish. To answer the question qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six health workers in home care. The result shows that language difficulties are common but not always need to be a problem. To deal with the different languages following were used; sign language, body language, eye contact and touch. Detailed visit plans, contact persons and continuity were used as tools to prevent misunderstandings and to facilitate communication. There was a difference of opinion whether the older immigrants were alone and isolated. The staff felt that the older experienced language difficulties hard, that they were sad, angry and felt hopelessness. Four interview persons thought that the establishment of good relations were not affected by language difficulties. Assumptions were not used to facilitate language difficulties since they treated everyone individually. Accommodating, trustworthy, good sense and kindness were words that were associated with positive reception.

Studien undersöker processen i plåthallen vid kantpressarna på Systemair Sverige AB i kommunen Skinnskatteberg. Systemair Sverige AB är ett företag som tillverkar luftridåer, ventilationssystem och luftaggregat och är ledande på marknaden inom sitt område. Systemair Sverige AB anser att processen sker ineffektivt vid kantpress vilket ger oönskade och långa ställtider. Målbilden för studien var då att hitta relationer mellan artiklar som går igenom kantpressarnas flöde och därefter dela in verktygen för att få ner ställtiderna. Tillvägagångsättet är av analyserande karaktär och följer en PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) struktur där ett antal frågor formulerades i början och som diskuteras i rapportens gång. Studien inleds med en grundlig nulägesanalys där verktyg inom Lean identifierades för att bemöta och hantera det uttalade problemet. Exempel på verktyg som användes är flödeskarta, produktionsflöde och produktfamiljer. Metoderna anpassades utefter studien och resulterade i en verktygsindelning. Utifrån verktygsindelningen har en procentuell indelning kunnat göras vilket ger upphov till nya flöden och som presenteras i rapporten. Projektgruppen har berört artiklar som behandlats av standardverktyg inom Prägling och Luftbock samt verktyg inom dessa områden utöver standard. För att få ner ställtiden så har en SMED-analys (Single-digit Minute Exchange of Die) utförts varav det har plockats ut en tidsstudie. Den längsta uppmätta ställtiden var på 43 minuter vilket projektgruppen tror går att reducera till 16 minuter genom verktygsindelningen. Då detta inte var i enlighet med SMED, där målet är att ställtiden ska vara under 10 minuter, så gavs indikationer på att fler faktorer spelade in varav en Ishikawa (rotorsaksanalys) upprättades. För att nå detta SMED-mål så gavs fortsatta rekommendationer varav ett är standardiserat arbetssätt. Slutligen presenterades tre förslag gällande effektiviseringen av kantpress, alla inom verktygsindelningen, och de frågeställningarna besvarades i slutsatsen. / The report studies the process by the press brakes at Systemair Sweden AB in the county of Skinnskatteberg. Systemair Sweden AB is a company that produce air curtains, residential ventilation, air conditioning devices and is leading within its own market of products. Systemair Sweden AB consider the press brake process to be inefficient which result in unwanted and long set up time. The intention of the report was to find the relations between products that are being processed in the press brake and thereafter sort each individual product stream by similarities in the equipment being used to reduce the set-up time. The approach of the report is of analyzing character and has a PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) framework where a few questions are enunciated in the beginning of the report and discussed throughout the report. The report initiates in a thorough status analysis where tools within the theory of Lean is identified and used to handle the mentioned problem. Examples of tools being used is a production map, production flow and production families. The methods are adapted for this problem and report which resulted in a classification in equipment. A percental division was established by the classification which sourced new defined production flows and are presented in the report. The project group has focused on products produced with standard equipment in the two most used press types and a few products being processed by other equipment. To reduce the press brakes long set-up times a SMED analysis (Single-digit Minute Exchange of Die) has been implemented and a clock study. The longest set-up time in this study was in 43 minutes which the project group think can be reduced till 16 minutes by classifying equipment. According to SMED, a set-up time under 10 minutes is achievable, which is not the case here which indicated that there are more factors having to be in consideration. Therefore an Ishikawa (analysis of causes) was made in order to acknowledge these factors and recommendations was given to continue the work whereof one recommendation was standardized work methods. In the final of the report three suggestions are presented to streamline the press-brake process, all formed through classification of equipment, and lastly the questions from the beginning are answered.

The purpose of the study is to increase knowledge about how newly licensedpreschool teachers work with children's literature and how they reflect on thiswork. The study examines what happens to the knowledge acquired duringpreschool teacher education, especially the knowledge that deals withchildren's literature. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were used toconduct a total of five interviews with legitimate preschool teachers from fourdifferent preschools. A qualitative content analysis was used to analyze thedata that emerged. The results show that preschool teachers believe that theireducation contained relevant knowledge about how preschool teachers canwork with children's literature. The study shows that preschool teachers viewtheir knowledge of children's literature positively and that their work withchildren's literature permeates the preschool's pedagogical activities. One ofthe conclusions that emerges is that children's literature in preschool is used inseveral different ways and not just as reading aloud at rest. The results alsoshow that newly licensed preschool teachers believe that they have goodconditions for working with children's literature in preschool. The work withchildren's literature is often planned together with the work team and theimportance of the group is emphasized. This is positive for the preschoolteaching profession as it shows how preschool teachers work with children'sliterature. / Syftet med studien är att öka kunskapen om hur nylegitimerade förskollärarearbetar med barnlitteratur samt hur de reflekterar kring detta arbete. Studienundersöker vad som händer med de kunskaper som tillägnas underförskollärarutbildningen, framför allt de kunskaper som handlar ombarnlitteratur. Kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer användes för attgenomföra totalt fem intervjuer med legitimerade förskollärare från fyra olikaförskolor. För att analysera den data som framkom, användes en kvalitativinnehållsanalys. Resultatet visar att förskollärarna anser att deras utbildninginnehöll relevant kunskap om hur förskollärare kan arbeta med barnlitteratur.Det framkommer i studien att förskollärarna ser positivt på sin kunskapgällande barnlitteratur och att deras arbetet med barnlitteratur genomsyrarförskolans pedagogiska verksamhet. En av slutsatserna som framkommer äratt barnlitteratur i förskolan används på flera olika sätt och inte bara somhögläsning vid vilan. Resultaten visar också på att nylegitimerade förskollärareanser att de har goda förutsättningar till att arbeta med barnlitteratur iverksamheten. Arbetet med barnlitteratur planeras ofta tillsammans medarbetslaget och gruppens betydelse betonas. Det här är positivt förförskolläraryrket då det visar på hur förskollärare arbetar med barnlitteratur.

Today's society is multicultural which means that also our classrooms are multicultural. The teaching must then be designed so that all pupils can develop as far as possible, which is expressed in the curriculum. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate how Swedish teachers work with language development in the mathematics subject, to support these multilingual students’ knowledge development to the maximum.This study has a qualitative approach as it is based on semi-structured interviews. A total of four teachers participated and were thus able to give their picture of how they work with language development in mathematics. The results of the study indicate a large divergence between the teachers' ways of working, relating to multilingual classrooms, and language development work. In addition, some aspects are more crucial to the development of languages and knowledge for multilingual students. This includes collaborative work where language has a central role in which students get to talk, reason, and communicate mathematics with others. Other key strategies that emerge are reality anchoring, customized tasks, and multilingualism as a resource. The work is analyzed in relation to theories of socio-cultural learning and pragmatism.

Marijampolės apskrities seniūnijų darbuotojų darbo organizavimo tobulinimas Magistratūros studijų baigiamasis darbas, 70 puslapių (be priedų), 15 paveikslų, 16 lentelių, 46 literatūros šaltiniai, 3 priedai, lietuvių kalba. RAKTINIAI ŽODŽIAI – darbo organizavimas, seniūnijos darbuotojai, darbo paskirstymas, normavimas, vertinimas, darbo metodai. Tyrimo objektas – Marijampolės apskrities seniūnijų darbuotojų darbo organizavimas. Darbo tikslas – parengti seniūnijos darbuotojų darbo organizavimo tobulinimo modelį. Uždaviniai: 1. Išanalizuoti darbo organizavimo sampratą teoriniu aspektu. 2. Nustatyti seniūnijos darbuotojų darbo organizavimo privalumus ir trūkumus. 3. Nustatyti seniūnijos darbuotojų darbo organizavimo tobulinimo kryptis. Tyrimo metodai: sisteminė mokslinės literatūros analizė, pirminių ir antrinių duomenų analizė, apklausos metodas (anketavimas ir nestruktūrizuotas interviu). Tyrimo problema: kurie darbo organizavimo veiksniai labiausiai įtakoja Marijampolės apskrities seniūnijų darbo organizavimą. Tyrimo rezultatai: • Pirmoje dalyje išnagrinėtas Marijampolės seniūnijų darbuotojų darbo organizavimas teoriniu aspektu. • Antroje dalyje išanalizuoti ir pateikti tyrimo rezultatai, nustatytos Marijampolės seniūnijų darbuotojų darbo organizavimo problemos. • Trečioje dalyje pateiktos Marijampolės seniūnijų darbuotojų darbo organizavimo tobulinimo kryptys ir modelis. • Straipsnis „Marijampolės apskrities seniūnijų darbuotojų darbo organizavimo tobulinimas teoriniu... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The final work of master studies consist of 70 pages of printed text (without apendixes), including 15 figures, 16 tables, 46 references, 3 apendixes (in Lithuanian language). KEYWORDS – organization of work, work distribution, normalization, evaluation, work methods. The object of investigation – work organization of employess` in sub-districts of Marijampole country. The aim of the work – formulate the improvement model of employess` work organization in sub-districts of Marijampole county. Tasks to be solved were as follow: 1. Analyse work organization conception in theoretical aspect. 2. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of employess` work organization in sub-districts of Marijampole county. 3. Identify the devepolement courses of employess` work organization in sub-districts of Marijampole. Methods of investigation were as follow: the system analysis of the literature on general science, the analysis of primary and secondary data, poll method (questionnaire and non-formal interview). Problem of the work: which elements of work organisation mostly influence work organization of employess` in sub-districts of Marijampole country. Results of investigation: • On the first part was investigated employess` work organization in sub-districts of Marijampole county in theoretical aspects. • On the second part was analysed results of research, confirmed problems of employess` work organization in sub-districts of Marijampole county. • On the thirth part was formulated the... [to full text]

This thesis deals is focused the application of general individualization strategies during work in the regular primary school classroom where pupils with learning diasabilities and specific behavior are integrated. Its aim is to describe the way the teacher tries to find optimal solutions using a form of action research. It deals with the status of these pupils in the class. What is their attitude and how they are motivated for school work. It traces how is the process perceived by pupils themselves, by thein schoolmates and thein parents. Perception of their problems by classmates and their parents. It reflects how the choice of the strategy affects the level of professional competence and teaching style of the teacher. It describes the benefits and risks associated with the integration of children with learning disabilities in the common classroom. It maps the possible strategies of differentiation and individualization of teaching methods and strategies that support students with learning disabilities an specific behavioral. It deals with the requirements for the competence of teachers. Keywords: inclusion, individualization, work methods, language and communication skills, a student with learning disabilities and behavior

The aim of this dissertation is to examine approaches to social work dealing with children at risk and their families. Of particular interest to this examination are the processes of social work practice, support of vulnerable children, family's effect upon child's endangered situation as well as the role of family in the process of social work practice with the child. Further subjects of investigation are specific methods and instruments of social work practice with children in need, competence and role of social workers along with legal standards in this field of social work. The first part of the work describes general and theoretical structure of social work practice with socially endangered children. Following part consists of social work methods applied in Mezipatro Children's Centre. The research part includes an analysis of semi- structured interviews conducted with social workers from Mezipatro Children's Centre and is focused on efficiency and risks of social work tools used in Mezipatro Children's Centre.