Är det viktigt som profession att försvara sitt kunskapsområde? En undersökning om hur psykisk ohälsa och stress bland ungdomar synliggörs i professioners tidskrifter

Mental illness and stress among young people is an increasing public health problem in Nordic countries such as Sweden and is a relevant subject in social work. The increase is most evident among young people, which is something that today's professions address in their respective journals as problematic, this is the foundation of our thesis. The purpose of this study was to investigate how concerned professions delimit their knowledge area in relation to mental illness and stress among young people. To get our results, we have used a qualitative method and founded our research on the following professional journals; ”Socionomen”, ”Psykologtidningen” and ”Läkartidningen”. We analysed our material using professional territory and cognitive jurisdiction which are two concepts in professional theory. Our results showed that professors from all journals come with solutions to how mental health and stress should be solved, within the framework of their own profession. ”Socionomen” and ”Psykologtidningen” proved to have a similar working method and solutions to the problem while ”Läkartidningen” differed because they took on an additional factor such as alcohol to explain the problem to mental illness and stress among young people