Moberg, Jennie Skogens, Lisa Schön, Ulla-Karin
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Child and adolescent mental health
Recovery from mental illness and mental health problems is relatively well-researched among adults, but evidence that focuses on the recovery experiences of young people and what characterizes it is scarce. With this in mind, this article aims to map out the existing research in order to identify prevailing knowledge about the recovery of young peo...
Ågren, Axel Pavlidis, George
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The Gerontologist
Loneliness and exclusion from social relations (ESR) are frequently addressed as public health issues for older adults. Public discourses potentially influence how loneliness and ESR are understood in society and experienced by the individual. The aim of this study was to analyze how older adults in different parts of Sweden use the discourses and ...
Dubrovskii, Alexey V Berezhnov, Alexey V Kim, Aleksandr L Tikhonenko, Sergey A
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Polymers
There are many studies devoted to the application of polyelectrolyte microcapsules (PMC) in various fields; however, there are significantly fewer studies devoted to the study of the polyelectrolyte microcapsules themselves. The study examined the mutual arrangement of the polyelectrolytes in 13-layered PMC capsules composed of (PAH/PSS)6PAH. The r...
Palm, Camilla Elmerstig, Eva Holmström, Charlotta Essén, Birgitta
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Frontiers in Sociology
Introduction A dominant narrative, referred to as “the standard tale,” prevails in popular representations about female genital cutting (FGC) that often contrast with how cut women traditionally narrate their FGC experience as meaningful in contexts where FGC is customary. However, scholarship has increasingly highlighted how global eradication cam...
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna Hultman, Lill Hallqvist, Johan
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
When researchers and professionals talk about autism, they commonly point out problems and risks with autism or being autistic. Several interventions are based on the idea of the problems and risks of autism. Another way of talking about autism is to point out autistic people's strengths and strategies which they use to handle barriers and problems...
Nouf, Faten Ineland, Jens
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
This paper presents a meta-analysis, drawing exclusively on qualitative research (n = 38), which contributes to findings on mental health service user experiences of received provisions and/or encounters in contemporary social and mental health services in the Nordic countries. The main objective is to identify facilitators of, and barriers to, var...
Björquist, Elisabet Tryggvason, Nina
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Journal of intellectual disabilities : JOID
Most youths use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for socialising, but there is a discussion about whether using ICT promotes social participation for youths with intellectual disabilities (IDs). Employing the concepts of social participation and self-determination together with the youths' perspectives, as conveyed by staff, we examin...
Ståhl, Christian De Wispelaere, Jurgen MacEachen, Ellen
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Disability and rehabilitation
This article focuses on the risk that work disability policies lock people into work disability rather than promote durable health and return to work. We outline the concept of a work disability trap as a heuristic device to explore this policy paradox inherent in the design of most social insurance systems. This is a conceptual paper drawing on ex...
rambaree;, komalsingh
School-based bullying is a major global social problem affecting societies around the world. It is argued that Virtual Reality (VR) offers benefits and possibilities in social work education. Within this context, a study was carried out with the aim of analysing students’ experiences with a school-based bullying scenario through Head-Mounted Displa...
Larsson, Kjerstin Wallroth, Veronika Schröder, Agneta
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Journal of gerontological social work
Several municipalities in Sweden organize senior summer camps where older adults can meet and where loneliness and social isolation can be mitigated. Few studies, however, examine how the older adults themselves describe the experience in retrospect and how it might have influenced their daily lives after the stay. This study aims to fill this gap ...
