Sökning: "voluntary social work"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 108 avhandlingar innehållade orden voluntary social work.
1. Att hjälpa andra : gåvans, rättvisans och medkänslans aporier i frivilligarbete
Sammanfattning : The thesis addresses the issue of social work in Swedish civil society, focusing on the ambition and practice of helping others as an existential as well as a social, political and cultural phenomenon. The aim is to study the ambiguities and aporetic conflicts that imbue helping activities and the desire to help others, using ethnographic as well as philosophical method. LÄS MER
2. Själv men inte ensam : om självhjälpsgrupper i Sverige
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, self-help groups are defined as small, autonomous groups of people that meet regularly to cope with a shared problem through mutual aid. There is reason to believe that self-help group activity is increasing in Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Krisgrupper och spontant stöd : om insatser efter branden i Göteborg 1998
Sammanfattning : The aim of the dissertation is to study the organized professional process and the spontaneous integrating and unifying process after the discotheque fire in Gothenburg 1998, when 63 young people died. Over a hundred crisis groups and duty centres were opened for the affected people. LÄS MER
4. I viljan att göra det normala : En kritisk studie av genusperspektivet i missbrukarvården
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to use intersectional analysis to investigate how gender is made in drug abuse treatment and to examine how the formation of gender interplays with the formation of sexuality, class and ethnicity. Central questions are: What gender(s) are to be shaped in druge abuse treatment? What happens to a gender perspective with emancipatory ambitions when it is incorporated into a normalizing practice such as social work? Quantitative methods are used to answer these questions. LÄS MER
5. Vänskap och organisering : En studie av Fountain House-rörelsen
Sammanfattning : The Fountain House Movement – or the Clubhouse Movement - is an organization for community support, meeting the needs of adults suffering from mental illness. It was founded by a self-help group among discharged patients in New York in the 1940s. Today there are more than 300 clubhouses around the world. LÄS MER