Från dröm till verkliget: en kvalitativ studie av några socialsekreterares verkligheter och drömmar

The main purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse how social worker on a specific Social Service Agency describe their experiences. My focus has been to concentrate on social worker, whose task is related to young people. The paper is presented from three different themes; work assignments, professional roles and projects in life. The central questions are; Which are the socialworker´s main tasks? How does the social worker see himself in his professional role? Have their expectations been fulfilled? Where do they get their motivation from? Which are the reasons why the job as social worker is so strenuous? I have interviewed four social workers (semi-structured interviews), and a qualitative method is used. This paper has not been based on a specific theory, but on different theories and theoretical perspectives. The three perspectives interaction, organisation and power from Billquist`s (1999) study has been used. The interviews show that some of the social workers want to provide assistance and work closer together with the client. Some of them also ask for different investigation methods, today they say that many of them work in similar ways. This dualism of client related work is, on the one hand - a genuine wish to help, on the other hand the control, bureaucratic and administrative routines. They have to control and at the same time provide assistance.The interviews also show that it is important for these social workers to improve in their profession