The aim of this study was to examine how employees working in daily activity centres reflect and talk about autonomy related to individuals with intellectual disabilities and the dilemma that may occur when working with individuals right to autonomy. This study is based on 6 qualitative interview with female employees working in daily activity centres in a medium- sized municipality in Sweden. The interviews were analyzed using meaning interpretation. The main result show that daily activity centres is a difficult arena to work in which attempts to encourage and respect intellectually disabled right to autonomy whilst protecting them from harming themself or be harmed. The result also showed that the employees view on the target group and autonomy has a big impact on how individuals can express their autonomy. Furthermore, the result indicated that employees face restrictions and opportunities in their work to enhance people with intellectual disabilities right to autonomy. The conclusion is that employees working in daily activities and participants att daily activity centres are affected by multiple factors in their work to strengthen individuals with intellectual disabilities right to autonomy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-159990 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Åkerberg, Hanna, Victoria, Fletcher |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan |
| 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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