Att tillgodose ensamkommande barns individuella behov- en kvalitativ studie om HVB-personals arbete ur ett professionsperspektiv

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study was to examine how professionals on residential care for unaccompanied children worked with the youths needs. Due to the increase of refugees coming to Sweden and specially unaccompanied children it has become one of our present time most important political questions. In order to examine how the professionals are working with the unaccompanied children’s needs we believed that a qualitative study was necessary, and therefore we conducted six interviews. The theory of professional approach (Holm, 1995, 2001) was used to examined which approach the professionals used in their work with the youths, which need the professionals saw was the most important and if the personal put the youths needs before theirs. Our result showed that the needs the professionals saw were the most important with the youths, was the need of a safe relationship, being a participated in the decisions that involved them and the need of learning how to cope with their anxiety. Our result also showed that in their work with the youths needs the professionals had different approaches, an approach that was influenced by rules, an approach that saw the youths as responsible adults and an last approach there the professionals acted as a role model. We could also see that the professionals had an aptitude to see the youths need as a group and not as individual. The respondent expressed that achieving an individual work was hard when the youths all had different needs and different takes at what is important.