Mobbning i barndomen och psykisk ohälsa i vuxenlivet - en kvalitativ studie om professionellas tankar och arbetsformer

Sammanfattning

The purpose of this study was to investigate how social work professional’s reason about the ways in which childhood bullying have implications for mental health in adult life and how this reasoning is reflected in their work practice. It is a qualitative study conducted through five interviews. Their experience was essential for the purpose of the study. The theoretical framework used in the analysis can be summarized as the individual-psychological, the interactionist and the group dynamic perspectives on reasons for and ways out of bullying problematics. The analysis revealed how these perspectives vary between professionals from different organisations: psychiatry, school and NGOs. The professionals' statements reflected a few prior research studies in being certain that childhood bullying can result in mental illnesses if it goes untreated. The varying perspectives on the reasons for and ways out of bullying were also reflected in different working methods; from individualized psychiatric treatment, mainly in psychiatry, to group-oriented anti-bullying methods, mainly at school. Another result of this study showed a lack of resources in the work against bullying in school and cooperative challenges between school, psychiatry and other organizations.