"Ska jag släppa eller ska jag kontrollera?" : En kvalitativ studie om enhetschefers och omsorgspersonals förhållningssätt till sexualiteten hos människor med utvecklingsstörning.

• Main Authors: Hellman, Catharina, Mörk, Elin
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, SA 2011
• Subjects: Sexuality; development disability; approach; normality
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13283

The aim of this study was to, on the basis of normalization and autonomy; investigate how staff working in group homes discusses about sexuality of people with an intellectual disability. Our study was based on ten semi-structured interviews of both care staff and heads of group homes to get responses from different levels within the same organization. The empirical material was analyzed through the theory of social constructivism, which focuses on how we construct the world through interaction and language, and the normalization principle whose goal is that all people with developmental disabilities should have the opportunity to live like all other people. We view these theories as useful to gain understanding of the questions in our study. The result of this study showed that the subject only comes up for discussion when problems arise, that the communication on the subject is inadequate and more discussion is requested. Further the result illustrated that staff strives for people with developmental disabilities to feel they have autonomy but this is also a challenge in their work.