The article aims to prove that there are autobiographical threads in Hanna Krall’s reportages, which are related to the necessity to hide during the occupation, detention at the police station and the death of her mother. The discovery of autobiographical tropes in Krall’s work may change the reception of her publications. The first coded mentions ...
10.25818/6ttq-c363 / 1-9 / CSU Case Studies (Case Study Unit)
Published in Journal of advanced nursing
To explore how nurses' professional discretion is operationalized in home care services that follow a purchaser-provider organization in Norway. A qualitative descriptive study. Semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions were used, and data were collected from in-depth interviews with 15 registered nurses working in home care in four Norw...
Biståndshandläggare inom äldreområdet är en profession med hög arbetsbelastning och ett komplext uppdrag att verka i skärningspunkten mellan intentionerna i en målrationell lagstiftning, kommunal budget och den enskildes behov. Genom att låta handläggare besvara en vinjettstudie, där de presenterats för Esther, undersöktes biståndshandläggare som p...
This study examines the perspectives of social workers who are working closely to people withaddictions or substance abuse regarding their view of Swedish drug policy and to what extent itaffects their clients life situations and their discretion in their work. Previous research indicates a lackof social workers perspective in this field, which is ...
Research shows an increase in alcohol consumption among older generations, leading to a rise in alcohol-related issues within this age group. In spite of this, there is a lack of knowledge and national guidelines regarding alcohol abuse among the elderly, resulting in complex work for social welfare officers and home care personnel who must balance...
Although diverse European welfare states have institutionalized an extensive infrastructure of public welfare services to redistribute resources, governments have been confronted with barriers in realizing the social rights of certain groups of citizens. Decentralization and increasingly local welfare provision has been promoted as a strategy to su...
Children whose families live in economic hardship tend not to participate in social activitiesthat involve money. Economically disadvantaged children are described as those who, due toinsufficient financial resources, have difficulty living a life similar to other children in thesame community. Social workers are legally obligated to specifically c...
Socialsekreterare som arbetar med ekonomiskt bistånd har ett uttalat handlingsutrymme och en viss frihet i handläggningsprocessen. Trots detta så finns det även lagar, regler, organisatoriska riktlinjer samt individuella faktorer som påverkar detta handlingsutrymme. Därför kan handlingsutrymmet användas på olika sätt, vilket sker utifrån det faktum...
Research on social work’s relation to local political decisions and the design of political policy documents is scarce. This paper analyses the design of local political policies for elder care in Sweden’s 290 municipalities. The policies determine delegation, i.e. care managers’ legal right to make decisions about the welfare services given to old...
