http://su.avedas.com/converis/ws/public/feed/simple/rss/Person/3/Contract Abrahamson, Maria (Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD)) Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:19:12 GMT 2012-12-18T14:19:12Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/750 Projektet studerar förutsättningar för, olika sätt att implementera samt konsekvenser av kraven på evidensbasering av och de nya nationella riktlinjerna för missbrukarvården. Detta sker genom en jämförelse mellan missbrukarvård bedriven i fyra organisationer med i flera avseenden skilda förutsättningar: kriminalvårdens frivård, den statliga LVM-vården, den kommunala socialtjänsten och den landstingsbaserade beroendevården. Urvalet av organisationer har gjorts med begränsning till mälardalsregionen. Data samlas in genom enkäter, personliga intervjuer och genom uppföljning av implementeringsprocessen i de olika organisationerna via intervjuer med nyckelpersoner samt analys av beslutsunderlag, promemorior, protokoll m.m. Sat, 22 May 2010 02:00:36 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/750 Maria Abrahamson 2010-05-22T02:00:36Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/754 The aim and direction of the work is to increase the cooperation between different regions and research settings in Sweden and to form a national base and meeting place for young and more experienced researchers within social research on alcohol and drugs. Network meetings thus have been hosted by different research groups around Sweden once or twice a year since 2005. Sat, 22 May 2010 02:00:36 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/754 Jessica Storbjörk, Maria Abrahamson 2010-05-22T02:00:36Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/755 The aim of the network has been to create a national base and meeting place for young and more experienced alcohol and drug researchers within the social sciences. The networking has strived to stimulate cooperation between different regions and different research milieus in Sweden as well as ongoing research within the area. The main target of the network meetings has been researchers and doctoral students within Sweden. During the first four years six network meetings have been arranged. The meetings have lasted for two days with between 40 and 60 participants attending each meeting. The working procedures have been varied with seminars, research presentations in plenum and work shops. SoRAD was hosting the first two meetings which took place in Stockholm, January 27th - 28th 2005 and September 15th - 16th 2005. Those two meetings had a broad approach with presentations of recent research results from a wide range of topics. At the third meeting in Malmö March 16th - 17th 2006 social scientist from Lund and Malmö were hosts. This meeting had a thematic emphasis and the red thread was ‘Addiction, ideology and qualitative research’. The program contained research presentations, discussions in small groups, information films for drug users, and visits to for example a syringe exchange program. The forth network meeting was held in Örebro in February 22nd - 23rd 2007 with the thematic heading ‘Compulsory treatment and treatment’. The fifth meeting was co-organized with the Public Health Institute in Östersund April 10th -11th 2008 on the theme ‘Alcohol policy changes - Swedish alcohol policy in a European context.’ The sixth meeting: ‘Inclusion - exclusion, theoretical perspectives, methodological aspects and the citizens’ experiences’’ was held in Stockholm May 7th - 8th 2009. The meeting discussed definitions and theories connected to the concepts of inclusion and exclusion and their implication for alcohol and drug research. Other important issues were how we can explain and study the processes leading to inclusion and exclusion both from a national and local perspective as well as from the perspective of the individual how is subjected to exclusion. Apart from the meetings the participants in the network have been able to keep in contact by other means. Continuous information of the activities in the network has been available on SoRAD’s homepage. The participants have also been able to communicate through the network’s mailbox. This mailbox works so that all e-mails, which are sent to the mailbox’s address automatically reaches all other members of the network. Thus everyone can be updating each other of seminars, conferences, literature, projects, research proposals, and available appointments or other matters that might be of interest to the participants in the network. Sat, 22 May 2010 02:00:36 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/755 Börje Olsson, Maria Abrahamson 2010-05-22T02:00:36Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/785 By analysing newly collected autobiographies this project is intended to provide a picture of the changing cultural significance of alcohol along with the symbolic value of drinking in different contexts, the reasons people drink in different situations, how the use of alcohol is regulated personally and informally, how this differs across generations and during different phases of life, and how this differs between women, men and socio-economic groups. Data collection started during spring 2008 with a nationwide public call for autobiographies that targeted broad groups of people in order to collect different kinds of narratives concerning the place of alcohol in people's lives. A total of 194 responses were received. A series of themes for various articles can be anticipated: The emergence of the welfare state and improved economic conditions will be reflected in a life course analysis of the older generation’s autobiographies; how the authors discovered that there is such a thing as alcohol and how they as children perceived adults’ use of alcohol and noticed its influence on them; how the authors as children or young first experienced an effect from drinking alcohol and what moral values they convey through these narratives; how the writers conceive drinking and intoxication in the context of parties and other festivities; how the writers cope with family members’ alcohol problems; how the authors, without professional assistance, handle their own problems with alcohol; encounters between different alcohol cultures; and different reasons for abstaining from drinking alcohol. Sat, 22 May 2010 02:00:38 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/785 Maria Abrahamson 2010-05-22T02:00:38Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/786 Under våren 2007 presenterades Socialstyrelsens nya riktlinjer för missbrukar- och beroendevården. Riktlinjearbetet har väckt förhoppningar, men också mött kritik och skapat debatt, bland annat vad gäller den praktiska tillämpbarheten av gemensamma riktlinjer och tillförlitligheten i olika kunskapsunderlag. Mindre uppmärksamhet har riktats mot frågan om möjligheterna att implementera gemensamma riktlinjer inomorganisationer med skilda villkor och traditioner. Riktlinjerna är i första handutformade för att vägleda arbetet med missbrukare inom den kommunalasocialtjänsten och den landstingsbaserade beroendevården men har rimligen konsekvenser också för den statliga tvångsvården och det arbete med missbrukare som bedrivs inom kriminalvården. Riktlinjerna kan på olika sätt komma att tillämpasinom fyra organisationer som skiljer sig åt beträffande till exempel beslutsstruktur,administrativa rutiner, medarbetarnas professionella status och vana att hanteraforskningsbaserade riktlinjer, liksom beträffande relationerna mellan politiskabeslutsfattare, tjänstemän/professionella och brukare. Att undersöka hur försöken att implementera de nationella riktlinjerna kommer att gestalta sig, i vilken utsträckningoch på vilket sätt de fyra organisationerna berörs, och i vilka avseenden konsekvenserna av dessa försök kommer att skilja sig åt, kan ses som en angelägen uppgift och något som kan ge värdefulla erfarenheter för framtiden. Föreliggande projekt kan ses som ett första steg i en kartläggning av implementeringsprocessen och av vilka praktiska konsekvenser den har för medarbetare och brukare i de fyra organisationerna. Mer specifikt kommer vi i denna första del att undersöka hur och ivilken utsträckning de berörda organisationerna redan har inkorporerat tanken om enevidensbaserad praktik och hur detta kommer till uttryck på olika organisatoriska nivåer. Sat, 22 May 2010 02:00:38 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/786 Maria Abrahamson 2010-05-22T02:00:38Z