Borta bra men hemma billigast? : En studie av vad som påverkar socialsekreterares val av insatser i Karlskrona och Karlshamns kommun

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay was to investigate and analyze affecting factors concerning social workers in two different municipality social services, Karlskrona and Karlshamn, working with cases of youth drug abuse. We wanted to see what affects social workers in their choices of assessments of youth drug abusers. We wanted to find out whether the organizational aspects or the cliental qualities affect the social workers more than the other in the choices of assessments. Among the cliental qualities we used in this essay, gender was the most important quality and therefore the quality we wanted to pay special attention to. When it came to the organizational aspects we paid special attention to the social workers boundaries of agency. Our survey was carried out as a vignettesurvey with complementary interviews as means to deepen the outcome of the results. Our survey showed that social workers are first and foremost affected by the organization in their choices of assessments. The organization in its turn decides which cliental qualities that are important in the municipality and thereby the qualities the social workers are affected by in their choices of assessments.