“Part of the job" : A qualitative study on how social workers within their workgroup construct threats and violence from clients.

The purpose of this study was to understand how social workers who works in social services in Sweden talk about and construct threats and violence from clients as a problem within their workgroup. The data in this study was collected through two focus group discussions with eleven social workers divided in two different work groups. The discussions were thereafter analyzed through a perspective analysis. The findings in this study shows that the social workers that participated had difficulties in defining threats and violence from clients because it was considered to be individual for every social worker. Furthermore, the study also shows that the social workers felt that threats and violence from clients came with the job and therefore had to accept it. Another finding the study showed is that the social workers tend to take responsibility for the threats and violence they were exposed from clients