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Vem vill arbeta med våldsutövare? En kvantitativ studie om socionomstudenters intresse för att arbeta med våldsutövare

Karlsson, Casandra LU and Boström, Lisa LU (2024) SOPB63 20241
School of Social Work
Abstract
Since August 2021 Swedish social services have had a special responsibility to work for perpetrators of violence to change their behavior, but little research has examined aspiring social workers’ interest in working with the target group. This quantitative study has aimed to understand social work students’ interests, knowledge about, and how comfortable they are in working with perpetrators of violence. The study was carried out using a ten-question survey that was sent to students from all semesters in the social work program at Lund University. A total of 195 out of 971 social work students answered the survey. The results showed, in contrast to earlier research and theory, that there was no correlation between the students’ knowledge... (More)
Since August 2021 Swedish social services have had a special responsibility to work for perpetrators of violence to change their behavior, but little research has examined aspiring social workers’ interest in working with the target group. This quantitative study has aimed to understand social work students’ interests, knowledge about, and how comfortable they are in working with perpetrators of violence. The study was carried out using a ten-question survey that was sent to students from all semesters in the social work program at Lund University. A total of 195 out of 971 social work students answered the survey. The results showed, in contrast to earlier research and theory, that there was no correlation between the students’ knowledge about perpetrators of violence and their interest in working with the target group. We also found that regardless of how much or little knowledge the students had about perpetrators of violence, the majority of students did not feel comfortable addressing the target group. We did find a correlation between interest in working with perpetrators of violence and students who had gained knowledge about the target group in other ways than through their education. (Less)
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author
Karlsson, Casandra LU and Boström, Lisa LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPB63 20241
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
social work students, perpetrators of violence, attitudes, knowledge, comfort
language
Swedish
id
9156924
date added to LUP
2024-06-03 09:20:00
date last changed
2024-06-03 09:20:00
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  abstract     = {{Since August 2021 Swedish social services have had a special responsibility to work for perpetrators of violence to change their behavior, but little research has examined aspiring social workers’ interest in working with the target group. This quantitative study has aimed to understand social work students’ interests, knowledge about, and how comfortable they are in working with perpetrators of violence. The study was carried out using a ten-question survey that was sent to students from all semesters in the social work program at Lund University. A total of 195 out of 971 social work students answered the survey. The results showed, in contrast to earlier research and theory, that there was no correlation between the students’ knowledge about perpetrators of violence and their interest in working with the target group. We also found that regardless of how much or little knowledge the students had about perpetrators of violence, the majority of students did not feel comfortable addressing the target group. We did find a correlation between interest in working with perpetrators of violence and students who had gained knowledge about the target group in other ways than through their education.}},
  author       = {{Karlsson, Casandra and Boström, Lisa}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Vem vill arbeta med våldsutövare? En kvantitativ studie om socionomstudenters intresse för att arbeta med våldsutövare}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}