Kristina Engwall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3470117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Engwall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Engwall |
| SIGNATURE | ENGWALL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2480-7074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Client participation in the investigation process – communication and standardised methods in the social services
The role of the administrative process and its prerequisites for supporting people with psychiatric disabilities: Den administrativa processens roll och förutsättningar för att stödja personer med psy…
This article focuses on the administrative process of daily living support for people with psychiatric disabilities and whether the IBIC (the Individual's Needs in Focus) method contributes to supportive social work characterised by flexibility in time, place and activities. Function-based specialisation, which separates investigation and decision-making from the execution of interventions, requires the exchange of information. The IBIC is design…
How Are Children Involved? Participation of Children in the Process of Matching With Foster Families
Children have the right to be informed and to express their views on all matters affecting them. When children are placed in foster care, social services are responsible for ensuring that the child receives ‘good care’. This requires a matching process. Matching means that children and foster families must ‘fit together’. Matching can be understood as a multistage process in which the child has the right to participate. With Sweden as the case in…
Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home
Matching a child with a foster home is a professional practice with considerable room for discretion since there are no specific guidelines in Sweden. The aim is to describe what knowledge do social workers’ assessments build upon in the matching process. The material consists of matching investigation files of 116 children from 6 municipalities in Sweden. A data form was used to assemble excerpts of descriptions of the child’s needs and how the …
The Ibic – a tool for social work? Social documentation, language, and persons with psychiatric disabilities
In recent years, many municipalities in Sweden are using a standardised method – the ‘Individual’s Needs in Focus’ (IBIC) for investigating needs of social support, as recommended by the National Board of Health and Welfare. The model is based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), with a so called ‘biopsychosocial’ approach and predefined categories and classifications. The article takes a critical persp…
Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
Children with disabilities are over‐represented in foster care and exposed to more disruptions. This is unfortunate because they need long‐term relationships and predictability, as well as access to special schools and health care. Disruption can be the result of a poor match between the child and the foster family. In this article, we focus on the matching process in relation to children with disabilities. Zeijlmans et al. describe matching as t…
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
Stability is vital for the development, health and relationships of children in family foster care. Instability can lead to social and school issues, low self‐esteem and diminished trust in caregivers. This article examines the risk and protective factors for stability for these children. Data, drawn from case files in six municipalities ( n = 116), combine qualitative and quantitative analyses for a comprehensive understanding. Twenty children f…
The importance of keeping a social perspective during pandemic times: Social psychiatry in Sweden
We discuss the pandemic strategies in Sweden concerning social psychiatry during the first wave. We argue that the omission of social workers’ perspective in the COVID-19 strategy has negatively impacted clients with psychiatric disabilities and has also weakened the overall pandemic strategy
Constructions of childhood: The assessment of respite care for children with disabilities in Sweden
This study examines how childhoods are constructed within the assessment process concerning respite care for children with disabilities in Sweden. The social workers need to take into consideration the needs of the child with disabilities as well as those of the parents and siblings. The application for respite care compels the social worker to prioritise needs, evaluate children’s development and define what constitutes a good childhood. One of …
Why Would You Want a Baby When You Could Have a Dog?" Voluntarily Childless Women's "Peternal" Feelings, Longing and Ambivalence
This article explores voluntarily childless women's experiences and understandings of human-animal interactions and their attitudes towards companion animals. It draws on interviews with 15 Swedish women who expressed a lack of "maternal" feelings and therefore had remained voluntarily childless, or childfree (used here as two interchangeable concepts). Instead, the women described how they perceived the attachment bonds to companion animals that…
Children with disabilities in Swedish child welfare – a differentiating and disabling practice
Research shows that children with disabilities are victims of violence and abuse to a higher extent than other children and thus need support from social services. In Sweden, cooperation between two different social services units is required to support children with disabilities in socially vulnerable families. In this study, we have examined the intersection between children and disability in a Swedish social services context from the perspecti…
Missing Out on the Parenthood Bonus? Voluntarily Childless in a “Child-friendly” Society
How disability is conceptualized in individual discrimination complaints
This article studies how disabilities are conceptualized and used by citizens when they report perceived discrimination associated with disability in Sweden. A review of all 485 disability-related complaints filed with the Equality Ombudsman in 2012 shows how disabilities are conceptualized on three different themes. The first involves environmental obstacles that include references to deficiencies regarding human rights as well as material defic…
What about the Future? The Troubled Relationship between Futures and Feminism
This position paper argues that issues related to the future are worth emphasizing and discussing with more feminist fervour and engagement than is now the case within feminist studies and futures studies. It is concluded that feminists cannot just be critical from an outside perspective, but must engage in creating alternative futures. These futures should not be common goals around which to unite, but a way to inspire feminist thinking about di…
Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and experiences in international perspective
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Childfreeness, parenthood and adulthood
This article discusses voluntary childlessness and reaching adulthood in Sweden, focusing on childfree women and men with intellectual disabilities (IDs). The article is based on interviews with 19 childfree individuals, four of whom had IDs. It focuses on motives for voluntary childlessness, with three types of motives being mentioned only by the interviewees with IDs; namely the difficulties of parenthood and of building relations with children…
Silent bodies: Childfree women’s gendered and embodied experiences
This article reports from the first studies on voluntary childlessness in Sweden and addresses a so far neglected issue – the embodied experiences of childfree women. These childfree women reject and resist pronatalist understandings that conflate being a woman with being a mother. However, instead of explaining their childlessness by external factors, mentioned in previous research, the interviewed women created a positive feminine identity sepa…
Naturligt barnfri. Kroppens betydelse i frivilligt barnlösas positionering
This article reports on the results from the two first studies on voluntary childlessness in Sweden and draws on interviews with 30 childfree women and 6 men. The article explores how they managed to create a legitimate childfree position in a society permeated by pronatalistic norms proclaiming parenthood to be self-evident in an adult normal life. Failure to conform to these norms results in being negatively stereotyped as selfish, abnormal and…
Starved to Death? Nutrition in Asylums During the World Wars
The aim of this study was to compare nutritional conditions in Swedish mental hospitals and institutions for “feebleminded” people during the two world wars with those in German institutions of the same era. During World War I, lack of food in Germany and Sweden led to high death rates at institutions containing many patients. During World War II, the Nazis used starvation as a means of killing disabled people. Restriction of food occurred even b…
Silent bodies: Childfree women’s gendered and embodied experiences
This article reports from the first studies on voluntary childlessness in Sweden and addresses a so far neglected issue – the embodied experiences of childfree women. These childfree women reject and resist pronatalist understandings that conflate being a woman with being a mother. However, instead of explaining their childlessness by external factors, mentioned in previous research, the interviewed women created a positive feminine identity sepa…
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
Stability is vital for the development, health and relationships of children in family foster care. Instability can lead to social and school issues, low self‐esteem and diminished trust in caregivers. This article examines the risk and protective factors for stability for these children. Data, drawn from case files in six municipalities ( n = 116), combine qualitative and quantitative analyses for a comprehensive understanding. Twenty children f…
Why Would You Want a Baby When You Could Have a Dog?" Voluntarily Childless Women's "Peternal" Feelings, Longing and Ambivalence
This article explores voluntarily childless women's experiences and understandings of human-animal interactions and their attitudes towards companion animals. It draws on interviews with 15 Swedish women who expressed a lack of "maternal" feelings and therefore had remained voluntarily childless, or childfree (used here as two interchangeable concepts). Instead, the women described how they perceived the attachment bonds to companion animals that…
Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
Children with disabilities are over‐represented in foster care and exposed to more disruptions. This is unfortunate because they need long‐term relationships and predictability, as well as access to special schools and health care. Disruption can be the result of a poor match between the child and the foster family. In this article, we focus on the matching process in relation to children with disabilities. Zeijlmans et al. describe matching as t…
The Ibic – a tool for social work? Social documentation, language, and persons with psychiatric disabilities
In recent years, many municipalities in Sweden are using a standardised method – the ‘Individual’s Needs in Focus’ (IBIC) for investigating needs of social support, as recommended by the National Board of Health and Welfare. The model is based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), with a so called ‘biopsychosocial’ approach and predefined categories and classifications. The article takes a critical persp…
Children with disabilities in Swedish child welfare – a differentiating and disabling practice
Research shows that children with disabilities are victims of violence and abuse to a higher extent than other children and thus need support from social services. In Sweden, cooperation between two different social services units is required to support children with disabilities in socially vulnerable families. In this study, we have examined the intersection between children and disability in a Swedish social services context from the perspecti…
What about the Future? The Troubled Relationship between Futures and Feminism
This position paper argues that issues related to the future are worth emphasizing and discussing with more feminist fervour and engagement than is now the case within feminist studies and futures studies. It is concluded that feminists cannot just be critical from an outside perspective, but must engage in creating alternative futures. These futures should not be common goals around which to unite, but a way to inspire feminist thinking about di…
The role of the administrative process and its prerequisites for supporting people with psychiatric disabilities: Den administrativa processens roll och förutsättningar för att stödja personer med psy…
This article focuses on the administrative process of daily living support for people with psychiatric disabilities and whether the IBIC (the Individual's Needs in Focus) method contributes to supportive social work characterised by flexibility in time, place and activities. Function-based specialisation, which separates investigation and decision-making from the execution of interventions, requires the exchange of information. The IBIC is design…
Naturligt barnfri. Kroppens betydelse i frivilligt barnlösas positionering
This article reports on the results from the two first studies on voluntary childlessness in Sweden and draws on interviews with 30 childfree women and 6 men. The article explores how they managed to create a legitimate childfree position in a society permeated by pronatalistic norms proclaiming parenthood to be self-evident in an adult normal life. Failure to conform to these norms results in being negatively stereotyped as selfish, abnormal and…
Starved to Death? Nutrition in Asylums During the World Wars
The aim of this study was to compare nutritional conditions in Swedish mental hospitals and institutions for “feebleminded” people during the two world wars with those in German institutions of the same era. During World War I, lack of food in Germany and Sweden led to high death rates at institutions containing many patients. During World War II, the Nazis used starvation as a means of killing disabled people. Restriction of food occurred even b…
Naturligt barnfri. Kroppens betydelse i frivilligt barnlösas positionering
This article reports on the results from the two first studies on voluntary childlessness in Sweden and draws on interviews with 30 childfree women and 6 men. The article explores how they managed to create a legitimate childfree position in a society permeated by pronatalistic norms proclaiming parenthood to be self-evident in an adult normal life. Failure to conform to these norms results in being negatively stereotyped as selfish, abnormal and…
Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and experiences in international perspective
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Childfreeness, parenthood and adulthood
This article discusses voluntary childlessness and reaching adulthood in Sweden, focusing on childfree women and men with intellectual disabilities (IDs). The article is based on interviews with 19 childfree individuals, four of whom had IDs. It focuses on motives for voluntary childlessness, with three types of motives being mentioned only by the interviewees with IDs; namely the difficulties of parenthood and of building relations with children…
Silent bodies: Childfree women’s gendered and embodied experiences
This article reports from the first studies on voluntary childlessness in Sweden and addresses a so far neglected issue – the embodied experiences of childfree women. These childfree women reject and resist pronatalist understandings that conflate being a woman with being a mother. However, instead of explaining their childlessness by external factors, mentioned in previous research, the interviewed women created a positive feminine identity sepa…
What about the Future? The Troubled Relationship between Futures and Feminism
This position paper argues that issues related to the future are worth emphasizing and discussing with more feminist fervour and engagement than is now the case within feminist studies and futures studies. It is concluded that feminists cannot just be critical from an outside perspective, but must engage in creating alternative futures. These futures should not be common goals around which to unite, but a way to inspire feminist thinking about di…
Missing Out on the Parenthood Bonus? Voluntarily Childless in a “Child-friendly” Society
How disability is conceptualized in individual discrimination complaints
This article studies how disabilities are conceptualized and used by citizens when they report perceived discrimination associated with disability in Sweden. A review of all 485 disability-related complaints filed with the Equality Ombudsman in 2012 shows how disabilities are conceptualized on three different themes. The first involves environmental obstacles that include references to deficiencies regarding human rights as well as material defic…
Children with disabilities in Swedish child welfare – a differentiating and disabling practice
Research shows that children with disabilities are victims of violence and abuse to a higher extent than other children and thus need support from social services. In Sweden, cooperation between two different social services units is required to support children with disabilities in socially vulnerable families. In this study, we have examined the intersection between children and disability in a Swedish social services context from the perspecti…
Why Would You Want a Baby When You Could Have a Dog?" Voluntarily Childless Women's "Peternal" Feelings, Longing and Ambivalence
This article explores voluntarily childless women's experiences and understandings of human-animal interactions and their attitudes towards companion animals. It draws on interviews with 15 Swedish women who expressed a lack of "maternal" feelings and therefore had remained voluntarily childless, or childfree (used here as two interchangeable concepts). Instead, the women described how they perceived the attachment bonds to companion animals that…
Constructions of childhood: The assessment of respite care for children with disabilities in Sweden
This study examines how childhoods are constructed within the assessment process concerning respite care for children with disabilities in Sweden. The social workers need to take into consideration the needs of the child with disabilities as well as those of the parents and siblings. The application for respite care compels the social worker to prioritise needs, evaluate children’s development and define what constitutes a good childhood. One of …
The importance of keeping a social perspective during pandemic times: Social psychiatry in Sweden
We discuss the pandemic strategies in Sweden concerning social psychiatry during the first wave. We argue that the omission of social workers’ perspective in the COVID-19 strategy has negatively impacted clients with psychiatric disabilities and has also weakened the overall pandemic strategy
The Ibic – a tool for social work? Social documentation, language, and persons with psychiatric disabilities
In recent years, many municipalities in Sweden are using a standardised method – the ‘Individual’s Needs in Focus’ (IBIC) for investigating needs of social support, as recommended by the National Board of Health and Welfare. The model is based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), with a so called ‘biopsychosocial’ approach and predefined categories and classifications. The article takes a critical persp…
Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
Children with disabilities are over‐represented in foster care and exposed to more disruptions. This is unfortunate because they need long‐term relationships and predictability, as well as access to special schools and health care. Disruption can be the result of a poor match between the child and the foster family. In this article, we focus on the matching process in relation to children with disabilities. Zeijlmans et al. describe matching as t…
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
Stability is vital for the development, health and relationships of children in family foster care. Instability can lead to social and school issues, low self‐esteem and diminished trust in caregivers. This article examines the risk and protective factors for stability for these children. Data, drawn from case files in six municipalities ( n = 116), combine qualitative and quantitative analyses for a comprehensive understanding. Twenty children f…
Client participation in the investigation process – communication and standardised methods in the social services
The role of the administrative process and its prerequisites for supporting people with psychiatric disabilities: Den administrativa processens roll och förutsättningar för att stödja personer med psy…
This article focuses on the administrative process of daily living support for people with psychiatric disabilities and whether the IBIC (the Individual's Needs in Focus) method contributes to supportive social work characterised by flexibility in time, place and activities. Function-based specialisation, which separates investigation and decision-making from the execution of interventions, requires the exchange of information. The IBIC is design…
How Are Children Involved? Participation of Children in the Process of Matching With Foster Families
Children have the right to be informed and to express their views on all matters affecting them. When children are placed in foster care, social services are responsible for ensuring that the child receives ‘good care’. This requires a matching process. Matching means that children and foster families must ‘fit together’. Matching can be understood as a multistage process in which the child has the right to participate. With Sweden as the case in…
Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home
Matching a child with a foster home is a professional practice with considerable room for discretion since there are no specific guidelines in Sweden. The aim is to describe what knowledge do social workers’ assessments build upon in the matching process. The material consists of matching investigation files of 116 children from 6 municipalities in Sweden. A data form was used to assemble excerpts of descriptions of the child’s needs and how the …
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Work (6 works) · Law (5 works)