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Sheltered employment in five member states of the Council of Europe: Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
- Authors:
- SAMOY Erik, WATERPLAS Lina
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Strasbourg
Comparative study looking at the situation of sheltered employment in the twelve Member States of the European Union. The data for each country is grouped under the following headings: institutional context; target population; access to sheltered employment; characteristics of the people in sheltered employment; and a discussion of the topics currently under debate around sheltered employment in each country.
Relationships between traumatic life events, symptoms and Sense of Coherence subscale meaningfulness in a group of refugee and immigrant patients referred to a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Stockholm
- Authors:
- EKBLAD S., WENNSTROM C.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 6(4), October 1997, pp.279-285.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Describes a study which aimed to test the long version of the Sense of Coherence (SOS) questionnaire and its relationship to other mental symptom questionnaires, in a multicultural immigrant and refugee sample of volunteer patients at a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Sweden. Implications of the findings are presented, as are methodological issues.
The body of political evidence
- Author:
- SONE Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.10.97, 1997, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The revelation that 63,000 people with learning difficulties or mental health problems in Sweden were forcibly sterilised has fuelled the debate about the reproductive rights of people with learning difficulties in this country. Explains the arguments.