Social workers who in their profession have direct contact with other people have a higher risk for being exposed to harassment, threats and violence at their workplace. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate social workers experiences of harassment, threat and violence from clients. The study is based on six qualitative semi-structured interviews where the focus is on the social workers stories. The narrative framework of this thesis is based on the narrative theory. The results of the study shows that there are social workers that have been exposed to harassment, threat or violence in different ways. Based on information from the interviews conducted in this thesis social workers have been exposed from verbal threats to physical violence. The study has discussed whether the social workers tend to report the incidents and it showed that the majority of the social workers actually do report them.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-42960 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Karchahina, Aliaksandra, Rasmussen, Camilla |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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