"Människor i kris kan ju inte jobba med förändring" : En kvalitativ studie om hur socialsekreterare resonerar kring föräldrars rätt till stöd när deras barn omhändertagits enligt LVU
(2020) SOPA63 20192School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Authors: Emma Nilsson and Emma Silverberg
Title: People in a crisis are not able to work with change
Supervisor: Helene Hansen
Assessor: Mikael Sandgren
The aim of this study was to examine social workers reasoning on social services support to
parents of children placed in compulsory care. This study was based on the Swedish social
services law, 6:7 Socialtjänstlagen, that describes that parents are entitled to support when their
child is placed in foster care. Previous research shows that parents experience a lack of support
by social workers and that the support system is in need of improvement. There were seven
participants in this study who all work in Skåne, Sweden. Six of them are social workers who
works with... (More) - Authors: Emma Nilsson and Emma Silverberg
Title: People in a crisis are not able to work with change
Supervisor: Helene Hansen
Assessor: Mikael Sandgren
The aim of this study was to examine social workers reasoning on social services support to
parents of children placed in compulsory care. This study was based on the Swedish social
services law, 6:7 Socialtjänstlagen, that describes that parents are entitled to support when their
child is placed in foster care. Previous research shows that parents experience a lack of support
by social workers and that the support system is in need of improvement. There were seven
participants in this study who all work in Skåne, Sweden. Six of them are social workers who
works with investigating children in need of support as well as their families and one participant
is working as a head of a department in social services. All participants have been interviewed
with qualitative semi-structured interviews. The empirical data has been analysed based on
organizational structure, theory of recognition and the theory of crisis. The results showed that
social services have guidelines that states that parents have the right to receive support. However,
there are no guidelines that describes how this support should be either designed or offered to the
parents. The study showed that not every parent is offered support by social workers due to lack
of formal structures. The participants of this study emphasized difficulties in balancing the
conflicting perspectives from the child and the parents in their daily work. They expressed a need
of developing the social services support to parents, in the form of parents having their own social
worker who can offer emotional support throughout the process, as the parents is described going
through a crisis as their child is being placed in foster care by compulsory care. Current support
to parents is directed towards changes in their parental abilities in order for them to reunite with
their child. Based on the theory of crisis, this study showed that changes that are required is not
possible to achieve unless the parents primarily, with support from social workers, get an
opportunity to process the grief and crisis that occurs when their child is being placed in
compulsory care.
Key words: theory of crisis, children in foster care, parents in crisis, compulsory care, social workers,
social services, law of social work, 6:7 SoL (Less)
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- author
- Nilsson, Emma LU and Silverberg, Emma LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20192
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Key words: theory of crisis, children in foster care, parents in crisis, compulsory care, social workers, social services, law of social work, 6:7 SoL
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9002818
- date added to LUP
- 2020-01-24 15:39:53
- date last changed
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abstract = {{Authors: Emma Nilsson and Emma Silverberg
Title: People in a crisis are not able to work with change
Supervisor: Helene Hansen
Assessor: Mikael Sandgren
The aim of this study was to examine social workers reasoning on social services support to
parents of children placed in compulsory care. This study was based on the Swedish social
services law, 6:7 Socialtjänstlagen, that describes that parents are entitled to support when their
child is placed in foster care. Previous research shows that parents experience a lack of support
by social workers and that the support system is in need of improvement. There were seven
participants in this study who all work in Skåne, Sweden. Six of them are social workers who
works with investigating children in need of support as well as their families and one participant
is working as a head of a department in social services. All participants have been interviewed
with qualitative semi-structured interviews. The empirical data has been analysed based on
organizational structure, theory of recognition and the theory of crisis. The results showed that
social services have guidelines that states that parents have the right to receive support. However,
there are no guidelines that describes how this support should be either designed or offered to the
parents. The study showed that not every parent is offered support by social workers due to lack
of formal structures. The participants of this study emphasized difficulties in balancing the
conflicting perspectives from the child and the parents in their daily work. They expressed a need
of developing the social services support to parents, in the form of parents having their own social
worker who can offer emotional support throughout the process, as the parents is described going
through a crisis as their child is being placed in foster care by compulsory care. Current support
to parents is directed towards changes in their parental abilities in order for them to reunite with
their child. Based on the theory of crisis, this study showed that changes that are required is not
possible to achieve unless the parents primarily, with support from social workers, get an
opportunity to process the grief and crisis that occurs when their child is being placed in
compulsory care.
Key words: theory of crisis, children in foster care, parents in crisis, compulsory care, social workers,
social services, law of social work, 6:7 SoL}},
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language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"Människor i kris kan ju inte jobba med förändring" : En kvalitativ studie om hur socialsekreterare resonerar kring föräldrars rätt till stöd när deras barn omhändertagits enligt LVU}},
year = {{2020}},
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