Browsing Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (SV-IS) by Document Types "Journal article"
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A conceptual model on reintegration after prison in Norway.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Many offenders struggle when attempting to reintegrate into society after release from prison, and the conditions they face after release often lead to reoffending. Internationally, there is limited understanding about how ... -
“A life more ordinary” Processes of 5-year recovery from substance abuse. Experiences of 30 recovered service users
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09)Background: Studies investigating the subjective experiences of long-term recovery from substance use disorder are scarce. Particularly, functional and social factors have received little attention. Objectives: To investigate ... -
A national survey on how sexual activity is perceived to be associated with sleep
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12)There is a paucity of studies investigating how sexual activity is perceived to influence sleep, despite conceptions about significant gender differences regarding this issue. In all, 4000 persons, aged between 18 and 55 ... -
Arbeidsmarkedstiltak som læringsarena: Nav-veiledere og unge arbeidsledige om 'læring i tiltak'.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Arbeidsmarkedstiltak har som mål å styrke tiltaksdeltakeres muligheter for inntektsgivende arbeid. I artikkelen retter vi søkelys på hvordan veiledere og unge arbeidsledige med nedsatt arbeidsevne (18-29 år) samtaler om ... -
Are Gypsy Roma Traveller communities indigenous and would identification as such better address their public health needs?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05)Introduction Across Europe, large numbers of Gypsy Roma Traveller communities experience significant health inequities such as higher morbidity, mortality and infant mortality. This health inequity is perpetuated by wider ... -
Beyond synthesis: Augmenting systematic review procedures with practical principles to optimise impact and uptake in educational policy and practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-02)Whilst systematic reviews, meta-analyses and other forms of synthesis are considered amongst the most valuable forms of research evidence, their limited impact on educational policy and practice has been criticised. In ... -
The child, the parents, the family and the state - Chile and Norway compared
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)There is a lack of research comparing Latin American and European countries alongside how family policy relates to social work practices. This study fills in the research gap, and compares Chilean and Norwegian social ... -
Children and childhood in Chile: Social worker perspectives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This study explores understandings of children and childhood among 21 social workers from five child protection services in Chile. To help grasp multiple ideas about children and childhood, we use Q methodology and the ... -
Children's experiences with Child Protection Services: A qualitative synthesis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)Background Research shows that young adults, previously in contact with Child Protection Services (CPS) often have lower overall wellbeing when compared to their peers in the general population. To redress this balance ... -
Current human ecology in the Amazon and beyond: A multi-scale ecosemiotic approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Umwelt theory is an expression of von Uexküll’s subjective biology and as such usually applied in analysis of individual animals, yet it is fundamentally relational and therefore also suitable for analysis of more complex ... -
Demographics, personality and substance-use characteristics associated with forming romantic relationships
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07)The current study aimed to identify demographic, personality and substance-use characteristics associated with forming romantic relationships. Data were collected by two online surveys among students in Bergen, Norway, ... -
Emotional labour and solving social work problems
(Journal article, 2013-01)Keywords supplied to the papers in this issue of Journal of Comparative Social Work are argumentation, critical reflection, professional boundary, democratic professionalism, etc. For me, all of these words connote ... -
Evidence for essential unidimensionality of AUDIT and measurement invariance across gender, age and education. Results from the WIRUS study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09)Globally, alcohol use is among the most important risk factors related to burden of disease, and commonly emerges among the ten most important factors. Also, alcohol use disorders are major contributors to global burden ... -
The Experience of Incarcerated Mothers Living in a Correctional-Institution with their Children in Ethiopia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-10)The needs of female inmates are different from those of their male counterparts. Little is understood of the nature of these differences, particularly for mothers who in countries such as Ethiopia may be accompanied by ... -
“Help goes around in a circle”: young unaccompanied refugees’ engagement in interpersonal relationships and its significance for resilience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11)Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address how young unaccompanied refugees in Norway actively engage in interpersonal relationships. It explores the significance of these relationships in doing well following ... -
Human development, inequality and social risks in Latin-America and the Nordic countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05)This article provides an overview and analysis of human development, inequality and people´s perception of social and economic risks in Latin America and the Nordic countries. While Nordic countries rank very highly on the ... -
Improving collaboration between professionals supporting mentally ill offenders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02)Purpose Interprofessional collaboration is necessary when supporting mentally ill offenders but little is understood of these interactions. This paper explores prison officers’ perceptions of current and desirable levels ... -
Is it love? A study of young people’s personal impressions and experiences of relationships in residential care in a Norwegian treatment collective.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The main objective of this study was to gain insight into young people’s experiences with positive emotional relationships with staff in residential care. Because positive relationships have been shown to be of great ... -
Is it meaningful to distinguish between Facebook addiction and social networking sites addiction? Psychometric analysis of Facebook addiction and social networking sites addiction scales
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)Studies conducted on Social Networking Sites (SNSs) addiction have to a large extent focused on Facebook as a prototypical example of SNS. Nonetheless, the evolution of SNSs has spawn conceptual and methodological controversies ... -
Ivaretakelse av barns rettigheter i sosialt arbeid med familier
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)FNs barnekonvensjon og norsk lovgivning skal sikre barn rett til beskyttelse, informasjon og medvirkning. Til tross for økt forskning på implementering av barns rettigheter, er det lite forskning på hvordan barns rettigheter ...