Sökning: "long term social assistance"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden long term social assistance.
1. Making the Poor Work : Social Assistance and Activation in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Management of poor relief and work demands have been controversial questions in social policy during the workhouse era of the nineteenth century as well as in current discussions on social assistance and activation of recipients. The first part contains a discussion on the concepts of poverty, marginalisation, and social exclusion, and continues with an overview of activation policies for recipients of social assistance. LÄS MER
2. Hur gick det sen? : Om tidigare bidragsmottagare ur ett livsloppsperspektiv
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to shed light on how life can turn out for individuals with long term social assistance and afterwards when it has ceased. The primary objective of the dissertation is to study the changes that have occurred during the life course and the impact of those changes on the life course at large. LÄS MER
3. Beyond treatment? : widening the approach to alcohol problems and solutions
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
4. Live life! Young peoples' experience of living with personal assistance and social workers' experiences of handling LSS assessments from a child perspective
Sammanfattning : The Act Concerning Support and Services to Persons with Certain Functional Impairments, in which the provision of personal assistance (PA) is included, came into force in 1994. It paved the way for strengthened rights for people with disabilities, in which the overall intention was to give disabled people equal opportunities and enable full participation in society. LÄS MER
5. Stressful life events and risks for social exclusion in the youth-to-adulthood transition : Findings from Swedish longitudinal data
Sammanfattning : Family background and childhood conditions have long held a special position in the academic literature as an explanation for young people’s life chances. Less attention has been paid to circumstances and events on the cusp of adulthood. LÄS MER