Search for dissertations about: "ordinary relationships"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 37 swedish dissertations containing the words ordinary relationships.
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1. An Ordinary School Child : Agency and Authority in Children’s Schooling
Abstract : The aim of this doctoral thesis is to explore the position, and the restrictions and possibilities for action available to children in a Swedish mainstream school class. With focus on everyday activities the questions generated were: whether being a member of a specific school class has significance; how the children position themselves in negotiations of time and space; in what manner the children can claim, and be granted, command over their school day activities; and what happens when the adults’ right to control becomes visible. READ MORE
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2. Time Together : a nursing intervention targeting everyday life in psychiatric inpatient care : patient and staff perspectives
Abstract : Background: Patient and staff descriptions of everyday life in psychiatric inpatient care are consistent, revealing a challenging environment with over-reliance on medication and, power imbalances. Patients and staff ask for the opportunity to develop relationships; however, the literature on nursing interventions targeting these issues is sparse. READ MORE
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3. Facing dementia as a we : Investigating couples’ challenges and communicative strategies for managing dementia
Abstract : We live longer than ever before, which means that we also live longer with disorders such as those connected with dementia. Most people diagnosed with dementia live in ordinary housing for a long time, relying on their social network for support, mainly involving spouses or adult children. READ MORE
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4. Vision in sight : the relationships between knowledge, health beliefs and treatment outcomes : the case of amblyopia
Abstract : The research reported is an experimental study on the effects of intensified education of parents of children with amblyopia on their understanding of the nature of the disease, its origins and treatment. Parents in the control group were exposed to the ordinary information provided at two departments of pediatric ophtalmology, whereas parents in the experimental group, attending the same clinics, were asked to read a booklet aiming at enhancing their understanding of the meaning of amblyopia and amblyopia-related phenomena. READ MORE
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5. Furniture for Later Life: Design Based on Older People’s Experiences of Furniture in Three Housing Forms
Abstract : This thesis in industrial design concerns the challenges and possibilities in meeting demographic shifts and the presumed expectations of today’s and tomorrow’s older generations. The background is the lack of furniture that responds to the demands of older consumers and the lack of knowledge about relationships between people and furniture in their home environments and in various forms of elderly care environments. READ MORE
