Mental illness is a worldwide problem and can be seen as a threat to public health, both nationally and internationally. The purpose of this study is to investigate what kind of reactions and support young people with mental illness experienced, during their Primary School years. This was studied by interviews to understand children and adolescents’ experiences. Of particular interest was to examine how they had been treated, by the school system, staff, classmates, and others in their school environment. The results show that mental illness can take different shapes and that their experience shows that it is important to have a feeling of belonging and to fit in. The results also show that they as children had been badly treated by the staff in their school and felt that they had to put on a mask and hide their mental health problems, which was stressful and hard. The results have been analysed with Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and theories of Erving Goffman. / Psykisk ohälsa är ett världsomfattande problem och kan ses som ett hot mot folkhälsan, både nationellt och internationellt. Denna studie har som syfte att undersöka vilket stöd barn och unga med psykisk ohälsa upplever att det har fått i grundskolan samt hur de upplever bemötandet under skoltiden. Studien genomfördes genom kvalitativa intervjuer samt tidigare forskning. Särskilt intresse ligger på att undersöka hur de själva uppfattar att de blivit bemötta av skolsystemet, personal, klasskamrater och personer som befinner sig och verkar i deras omgivning. Resultatet visar att psykisk ohälsa kan ha olika uttryck, men att det viktigaste är att känna tillhörighet och att passa in i skolan. Det var även vanligt med upplevelser av bristfälligt bemötande av skolpersonal och att tvingas uppvisa en fasad och gömma sin psykiska ohälsa, något som var mycket påfrestande och energikrävande. Data har analyserats med Axel Honneth’s teori om erkännande samt teorier av Erving Goffmans.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-44011 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Söderström, Frida, Jacobson, Mikaela |
| Publisher | Södertörns högskola, Socialt arbete, Södertörns högskola, Socialt arbete |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | Swedish |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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