Elinor Brunnberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4250224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elinor Brunnberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elinor |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunnberg |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNNBERG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Örebro University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Methodological Challenges in Developing a Youth Questionnaire, Life & Health Young People , for Comparative Studies in Thailand and Sweden
Purpose: To develop a Thai questionnaire ชีวิตและสุขภาพของวัยรุ่นในประเทศไทย (TYQ) to explore girls’ and boys’ living conditions, lifestyles, and self-reported health with special focus on sexuality, based on a Swedish questionnaire, Liv & Hälsa ung (SYQ). Challenges in developing a youth questionnaire for comparative studies are described. Design: A multistep translation, sociocultural adaptation procedure, and a mixed-method validation test wer…
Intra‐ and Inter‐generational Perspectives on Youth Participation in Sweden
In this study, intra‐ and inter‐generational perspectives on youth participation are combined and compared. Young people were invited to participate as research partners in an interactive research circle and conducted a survey about participation with other young people as respondents. The discussion concerns how an interactive methodology contributes to the understanding of the concept of participation. It is suggested that political definitions…
Speak Up! Voices of European Children in Vulnerable Situations
The aim of the Speak up! study is to increase our knowledge of European children in vulnerable situations or with special needs, and their own views about their rights and what needs to be improved. The methodology was to play a children’s rights game and to hold in-depth discussions about children’s rights in focus groups with children in vulnerable situations and in control groups. The qualitative study of children took place in eight European …
Young people as partners in research
This article presents an interactive research methodology for young people's participation in research. A model of the research circle, based on the Scandinavian study-circle tradition with democratic ideals, was created and is described. The empirical example is from Sweden. Academic researchers invited young people to be research partners in a research circle. The asymmetrical relationship between the researchers and the young research partners…
Jokes and routines make everyday life a good life—on ‘doing family’ for young people in foster care in Sweden
The aim of this article is to identify inclusion practices in foster families by studying the everyday life of young people entering various types of foster family. Structure and warmth in the family stand out as important dimensions of everyday life. What is not so evident in previous research is the way emotional ‘warmth’ is created. In particular, joking, gentle teasing and laughing, which in this paper stand out as important inclusion practic…
Settling into a new home as a teenager
Hard-of-hearing children's sense of identity and belonging
This study explores the process of identity construction for hard-of-hearing (HH) children in Sweden. Twenty-nine children aged 9–16 years who attended special classes for HH students were interviewed. During this longitudinal study, all classes were moved from an oral to a signing school environment. The findings support the position that a bilingual HH identity exists. HH children often construct their identity by widening their reference group…
Why one goes to school
In this interpretative childhood study of 17 boys and girls aged 13–16 years placed in foster families, the experiences and attitudes towards school are explored. The importance of school as an arena for both learning and socialization is emphasized. Data were collected through interviews, network maps and text answers via mobile phone (‘beepers’). Their educational improvement was based on their understanding of scholastic achievement as meaning…
Self-Rated Mental Health, School Adjustment, and Substance Use in Hard-of-Hearing Adolescents
This survey, "Life and Health-Young People 2005," included all 15/16-year-old adolescents in mainstream schools in the county of Orebro, Sweden. Just students with a slight/mild or moderate hearing loss were included. There were 56 (1.9%) "hard-of-hearing (HH) students with multiple disabilities," 93 (3.1%) students who were "just HH," 282 (9.7%) students with some "other disability than HH," and 2,488 (85.2%) students with "no disability." "HH w…
Adolescent Girls’ and Boys’ Perceptions of Mental Health
The aims of this study are to analyse the concept of mental health from the perspective of adolescent girls and boys and to describe what adolescent girls and boys regard as important determinants of mental health. Interviews with 48 children, 13 and 16 years old, in Sweden were held individually or in focus groups. The adolescents perceived mental health as an emotional experience, where positive as well as negative health is part of the concept…
Assessment processes in social work with children at risk in Sweden and Croatia
The aim of this article is to compare Swedish and Croatian social workers’ assessments and protection of a 4‐year‐old child exposed to risk in its own family. The data were collected from 87 Croatian and 72 Swedish social workers by means of a questionnaire, which incorporated a vertical vignette. Effects of the participant's country of residence were investigated with respect to: (i) risk assessments; (ii) perception of the main problems; (iii) …
The School Playground as a Meeting Place for Hard of Hearing Children
The school playground is the main social arena for children attending classes for hard of hearing pupils, where they can meet and mix with other children. Their social interplay with other children is rather restricted during their spare time. For the hard of hearing children in this study, their school environment has shifted from one dominated by spoken language (at a mainstream compulsory school) to one dominated by the use of sign language (a…
Young people as partners in research
This article presents an interactive research methodology for young people's participation in research. A model of the research circle, based on the Scandinavian study-circle tradition with democratic ideals, was created and is described. The empirical example is from Sweden. Academic researchers invited young people to be research partners in a research circle. The asymmetrical relationship between the researchers and the young research partners…
Why one goes to school
In this interpretative childhood study of 17 boys and girls aged 13–16 years placed in foster families, the experiences and attitudes towards school are explored. The importance of school as an arena for both learning and socialization is emphasized. Data were collected through interviews, network maps and text answers via mobile phone (‘beepers’). Their educational improvement was based on their understanding of scholastic achievement as meaning…
Adolescent Girls’ and Boys’ Perceptions of Mental Health
The aims of this study are to analyse the concept of mental health from the perspective of adolescent girls and boys and to describe what adolescent girls and boys regard as important determinants of mental health. Interviews with 48 children, 13 and 16 years old, in Sweden were held individually or in focus groups. The adolescents perceived mental health as an emotional experience, where positive as well as negative health is part of the concept…
Jokes and routines make everyday life a good life—on ‘doing family’ for young people in foster care in Sweden
The aim of this article is to identify inclusion practices in foster families by studying the everyday life of young people entering various types of foster family. Structure and warmth in the family stand out as important dimensions of everyday life. What is not so evident in previous research is the way emotional ‘warmth’ is created. In particular, joking, gentle teasing and laughing, which in this paper stand out as important inclusion practic…
Speak Up! Voices of European Children in Vulnerable Situations
The aim of the Speak up! study is to increase our knowledge of European children in vulnerable situations or with special needs, and their own views about their rights and what needs to be improved. The methodology was to play a children’s rights game and to hold in-depth discussions about children’s rights in focus groups with children in vulnerable situations and in control groups. The qualitative study of children took place in eight European …
Settling into a new home as a teenager
Assessment processes in social work with children at risk in Sweden and Croatia
The aim of this article is to compare Swedish and Croatian social workers’ assessments and protection of a 4‐year‐old child exposed to risk in its own family. The data were collected from 87 Croatian and 72 Swedish social workers by means of a questionnaire, which incorporated a vertical vignette. Effects of the participant's country of residence were investigated with respect to: (i) risk assessments; (ii) perception of the main problems; (iii) …
Hard-of-hearing children's sense of identity and belonging
This study explores the process of identity construction for hard-of-hearing (HH) children in Sweden. Twenty-nine children aged 9–16 years who attended special classes for HH students were interviewed. During this longitudinal study, all classes were moved from an oral to a signing school environment. The findings support the position that a bilingual HH identity exists. HH children often construct their identity by widening their reference group…
The School Playground as a Meeting Place for Hard of Hearing Children
The school playground is the main social arena for children attending classes for hard of hearing pupils, where they can meet and mix with other children. Their social interplay with other children is rather restricted during their spare time. For the hard of hearing children in this study, their school environment has shifted from one dominated by spoken language (at a mainstream compulsory school) to one dominated by the use of sign language (a…
The School Playground as a Meeting Place for Hard of Hearing Children
The school playground is the main social arena for children attending classes for hard of hearing pupils, where they can meet and mix with other children. Their social interplay with other children is rather restricted during their spare time. For the hard of hearing children in this study, their school environment has shifted from one dominated by spoken language (at a mainstream compulsory school) to one dominated by the use of sign language (a…
Assessment processes in social work with children at risk in Sweden and Croatia
The aim of this article is to compare Swedish and Croatian social workers’ assessments and protection of a 4‐year‐old child exposed to risk in its own family. The data were collected from 87 Croatian and 72 Swedish social workers by means of a questionnaire, which incorporated a vertical vignette. Effects of the participant's country of residence were investigated with respect to: (i) risk assessments; (ii) perception of the main problems; (iii) …
Adolescent Girls’ and Boys’ Perceptions of Mental Health
The aims of this study are to analyse the concept of mental health from the perspective of adolescent girls and boys and to describe what adolescent girls and boys regard as important determinants of mental health. Interviews with 48 children, 13 and 16 years old, in Sweden were held individually or in focus groups. The adolescents perceived mental health as an emotional experience, where positive as well as negative health is part of the concept…
Self-Rated Mental Health, School Adjustment, and Substance Use in Hard-of-Hearing Adolescents
This survey, "Life and Health-Young People 2005," included all 15/16-year-old adolescents in mainstream schools in the county of Orebro, Sweden. Just students with a slight/mild or moderate hearing loss were included. There were 56 (1.9%) "hard-of-hearing (HH) students with multiple disabilities," 93 (3.1%) students who were "just HH," 282 (9.7%) students with some "other disability than HH," and 2,488 (85.2%) students with "no disability." "HH w…
Hard-of-hearing children's sense of identity and belonging
This study explores the process of identity construction for hard-of-hearing (HH) children in Sweden. Twenty-nine children aged 9–16 years who attended special classes for HH students were interviewed. During this longitudinal study, all classes were moved from an oral to a signing school environment. The findings support the position that a bilingual HH identity exists. HH children often construct their identity by widening their reference group…
Why one goes to school
In this interpretative childhood study of 17 boys and girls aged 13–16 years placed in foster families, the experiences and attitudes towards school are explored. The importance of school as an arena for both learning and socialization is emphasized. Data were collected through interviews, network maps and text answers via mobile phone (‘beepers’). Their educational improvement was based on their understanding of scholastic achievement as meaning…
Jokes and routines make everyday life a good life—on ‘doing family’ for young people in foster care in Sweden
The aim of this article is to identify inclusion practices in foster families by studying the everyday life of young people entering various types of foster family. Structure and warmth in the family stand out as important dimensions of everyday life. What is not so evident in previous research is the way emotional ‘warmth’ is created. In particular, joking, gentle teasing and laughing, which in this paper stand out as important inclusion practic…
Settling into a new home as a teenager
Young people as partners in research
This article presents an interactive research methodology for young people's participation in research. A model of the research circle, based on the Scandinavian study-circle tradition with democratic ideals, was created and is described. The empirical example is from Sweden. Academic researchers invited young people to be research partners in a research circle. The asymmetrical relationship between the researchers and the young research partners…
Intra‐ and Inter‐generational Perspectives on Youth Participation in Sweden
In this study, intra‐ and inter‐generational perspectives on youth participation are combined and compared. Young people were invited to participate as research partners in an interactive research circle and conducted a survey about participation with other young people as respondents. The discussion concerns how an interactive methodology contributes to the understanding of the concept of participation. It is suggested that political definitions…
Speak Up! Voices of European Children in Vulnerable Situations
The aim of the Speak up! study is to increase our knowledge of European children in vulnerable situations or with special needs, and their own views about their rights and what needs to be improved. The methodology was to play a children’s rights game and to hold in-depth discussions about children’s rights in focus groups with children in vulnerable situations and in control groups. The qualitative study of children took place in eight European …
Methodological Challenges in Developing a Youth Questionnaire, Life & Health Young People , for Comparative Studies in Thailand and Sweden
Purpose: To develop a Thai questionnaire ชีวิตและสุขภาพของวัยรุ่นในประเทศไทย (TYQ) to explore girls’ and boys’ living conditions, lifestyles, and self-reported health with special focus on sexuality, based on a Swedish questionnaire, Liv & Hälsa ung (SYQ). Challenges in developing a youth questionnaire for comparative studies are described. Design: A multistep translation, sociocultural adaptation procedure, and a mixed-method validation test wer…
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Nursing (4 works)