Exploring Resilience with Families - National Report for Sweden Authors:

Not all focus group discussions included a break: this was left up to the discretion of the moderator and depended on the time available, the flow of the discussion and participants’ energy levels. [...] The table below outlines key information about the organisation of the focus group discussions, including the location where the focus group discussion was held, the recruitment mode and the number of participants. [...] In addition, in a small number of cases the quotes were edited to protect anonymity and respect the conditions of ethical approval of the national research as well as conditions of the project’s Joint Controllership Agreement. [...] Turning to the second sub-theme, there were several criticisms made of the services in terms, for example, of their accessibility and the degree of understanding (or even depth of case analysis) on the part of the staff (to be considered in more detail in section 4.7.2 below). [...] But there is, unfortunately, a negative view of us, even though we work ourselves to the bone.” Some of these participants’ situation was complicated by a past history of poor relations or violence with the child’s other parent which, in the present, created difficulties both around the children being able to see the other parent and worry about this and other related factors on the part of the ca.