Search for dissertations about: "Residential care institutions"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Residential care institutions.
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1. Residential care for young people in Sweden – homes, staff and residents
Abstract : Johansson, Jan (2007) Residential care for young people in Sweden – Homes, staff and residents. Department of Psychology, Göteborg University, SwedenThis thesis studies residential care for young persons (13-18 years of age) with emotional and behavioural problems. An overall aim is to examine and describe different aspects of residential care. READ MORE
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2. Overrepresentation of Internationally Adopted Adolescents in Swedish §12-institutions
Abstract : In order to study internationally adopted delinquents, internationally adopted controls, delinquent controls and an additional group of healthy non-adopted, non-delinquent controls, the following tests were used: WISC/WAIS, TOL, WCST, a questionnaire, I think I am, ISSI, an attachment test, KSP, and SCL-90. In the register study, data were obtained from the registers of The National Board of Health and Welfare and Statistics Sweden and multivariate analyses were performed using logistic regression models. READ MORE
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3. From Children of the Garbage Bins to Citizens : A reflexive ethnographic study on the care of “street children”
Abstract : The aim of the study on which this thesis is based was to gain an understanding of the life situation of street children in Kenya and to investigate how caring institutions care for these children. A reflexive ethnographic approach was used to facilitate entry into the children’s sub-culture and the work contexts of the caregivers to better understand how the children live on the streets and how the caregivers work with the children. READ MORE
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4. Beyond treatment? : widening the approach to alcohol problems and solutions
Abstract : The dissertation includes four different studies which, from different points of departure, aim to illuminate problems and prospects of social work with alcohol problems in contemporary Sweden.Paper 1 analyses the historical succession of predominant public images of, and societal responses to, alcohol problems in Sweden during the past century. READ MORE
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5. Urban Disaster Governance : Resilience and Rights in the Unequal City
Abstract : While a hazard, such as an earthquake, may result from natural processes, the unequal ways in which it impacts people’s lives are not an outcome dictated by forces of nature. Indeed, the disaster unfolding from a hazard has much to do with how human societies are governed. READ MORE