Missbruksvård på lika villkor? : En kvalitativ studie om socialtjänstens könsperspektiv i missbruksärenden

Sammanfattning: Although Sweden is considered to be one of the world’s most equal countries, studies show that social work to a large extent is characterised of stereotype conceptions about men and women. This implies that clients with addiction problems are treated by there gender belongings and not from there individual needs. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how aware the social services are regarding gender perspectives and equal opportunities among male and female addicts. The social workers that were interviewed had different opinions about what extent the gender perspective had in the treatment of the clients. But all interviewed wanted to believe that men and women are treated equally. Altough, the results of our study show that men and women were offered treatment according to gender and traditional gender roles. Women were offered conversational therapy in purpose to make them more feminine while treatment for men was focused on work. In a gender- and socialconstructive perspective the study showed that cultural and social constructed conceptions was affecting the social workers in contact with the addicted clients and a critical attitude towards structural barriers in the society was missing.