Background: Social workers have a key role in needs assessment meetings with families dealing with dementia, providing information, support, and advocacy, while also assessing needs and making decisions about care services for several parties. These contacts are especially important during the introduction of home care services, where often the per...
Published in Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
This article examines the introduction of "sensitivity training" to 1970s Swedish work life. Drawing upon a range of empirical materials, I explore the politics that were involved in the process of translating and adapting this group dynamic method to the Swedish context and consider how its proponents argued for its value. By approaching sensitivi...
Published in Scandinavian journal of public health
An educational intervention, based on qualitative evidence of racism in healthcare, is described. Using vignettes from a previous project, interviews were conducted to gather qualitative evidence of racism in healthcare settings from a wide range of healthcare staff in Sweden. From this interview material, case studies were devised that were subseq...
Published in Frontiers in Climate
An increase in carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, including bioenergy with CCS (BECCS), has led to an urgent demand for storage sites, and Norway stands out for its ongoing and planned geological storage sites in a European context. Even though there are no commercial carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) projects in Norway and the...
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, “un-...
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF) within the first hour after birth. However, certain perinatal factors, namely caesarean section, may prevent this goal from being achieved. The aim of our study was to examine the relationship between EIBF (maternal lactation in the first hours and degree of lat...
Police officers with patrolling duties are exposed to physically demanding situations on a regular basis, which puts a high demand on their physical abilities and condition. Police officers are regularly forced to make quick decisions in complex tactical situations which in some cases mean physical confrontation. Throughout the procedure to become ...
Bakgrund: Mentalsjukhus upprättades på 1900-talet runt om i västvärlden för att separera obildbara sinnesslöa från samhället. Mentalsjukhusen hade ett uppfostrande syfte, men generellt blev det förvaring av patienterna. Mentalsjukhusen byggdes på moraliska samhälls-ideologier som motiverades med hjälp av medicinsk vetenskap. Med framsteg i antipsyk...
På uppdrag av Vuxenutbildningsenheten i Jönköpings kommun har vi undersökt hur eleverna har hittat till sin vuxenutbildning och hur de upplevt marknadsföringen av vuxenutbildningar. Studien ska hjälpa Vuxenutbildningsenheten att bättre nå ut till presumtiva sökande och ge mer information om varför vuxna väljer att delta i vuxenutbildningar. Syftet ...
Enligt Skolverket (2018, s. 6) ska "[a]lla barn få en utbildning som är utformad och anpassad så att de utvecklas så långt som möjligt. Barn som tillfälligt eller varaktigt behöver mer stöd och stimulans ska få detta utformat utifrån sina egna behov och förutsättningar". Örnsköldsviks kommun tog 2018 fram ett stödmaterial för förskolan vars syfte v...
