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Om jag bara kan plantera någonting litet positivt hos ett barn eller en familj

Nordqvist, Mia LU and Kronqvist, Louise LU (2023) SOPB63 20222
School of Social Work
Abstract
For many years, high staff turnover and difficulties in recruiting social workers have been reported in social services in general but particularly in child welfare. Previous studies have shown that giving social workers adequate social support is important in getting them to maintain their job commitment and remain at the workplace. The purpose of our study has been to investigate in what way internal and external factors contribute to the willingness of social workers active in child welfare to stay in their work at social services. To collect data, we conducted qualitative interviews with eight social workers that worked in child welfare for at least two years. The theoretical starting point that we use to analyze our empirical data is... (More)
For many years, high staff turnover and difficulties in recruiting social workers have been reported in social services in general but particularly in child welfare. Previous studies have shown that giving social workers adequate social support is important in getting them to maintain their job commitment and remain at the workplace. The purpose of our study has been to investigate in what way internal and external factors contribute to the willingness of social workers active in child welfare to stay in their work at social services. To collect data, we conducted qualitative interviews with eight social workers that worked in child welfare for at least two years. The theoretical starting point that we use to analyze our empirical data is SOC - a sense of coherence. The results of our study indicate that the most common internal and external factors that contribute to the willingness to stay at their work were colleagues and the meeting with the client. The colleagues were seen as important and valuable, which we could identify as an external factor. The meeting with the client we could identify as an internal factor as the social workers felt that they had an emotional commitment to creating change within children and their families. At the beginning of our study, we looked at internal and external factors as two independent variables. Now that we have completed our study, we would rather say that these variables are in some cases closely related to each other. (Less)
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author
Nordqvist, Mia LU and Kronqvist, Louise LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
If I could only plant something slightly positive within a child or a family
course
SOPB63 20222
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Social work, social secretary, social worker, child welfare, workload
language
Swedish
id
9106890
date added to LUP
2023-01-24 16:18:45
date last changed
2023-01-24 16:18:45
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  abstract     = {{For many years, high staff turnover and difficulties in recruiting social workers have been reported in social services in general but particularly in child welfare. Previous studies have shown that giving social workers adequate social support is important in getting them to maintain their job commitment and remain at the workplace. The purpose of our study has been to investigate in what way internal and external factors contribute to the willingness of social workers active in child welfare to stay in their work at social services. To collect data, we conducted qualitative interviews with eight social workers that worked in child welfare for at least two years. The theoretical starting point that we use to analyze our empirical data is SOC - a sense of coherence. The results of our study indicate that the most common internal and external factors that contribute to the willingness to stay at their work were colleagues and the meeting with the client. The colleagues were seen as important and valuable, which we could identify as an external factor. The meeting with the client we could identify as an internal factor as the social workers felt that they had an emotional commitment to creating change within children and their families. At the beginning of our study, we looked at internal and external factors as two independent variables. Now that we have completed our study, we would rather say that these variables are in some cases closely related to each other.}},
  author       = {{Nordqvist, Mia and Kronqvist, Louise}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Om jag bara kan plantera någonting litet positivt hos ett barn eller en familj}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}