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Lindroth, M., Carlström, C., Andersson, C. & Husén, E. (2025). Social Workers as Allies? Gender Confirming Practices and Institutional Limitations in Youth Residential Homes. Clinical social work journal, 53(1), 108-116
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Social Workers as Allies? Gender Confirming Practices and Institutional Limitations in Youth Residential Homes
2025 (English)In: Clinical social work journal, ISSN 0091-1674, E-ISSN 1573-3343, Vol. 53, no 1, p. 108-116Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Previous research shows that LGBTQ+ youth are over-represented in out-of-home care and that especially transgender andnon-binary youth face challenges during their placement. These challenges stem from, among other factors, the lack ofknowledge and competence of professionals regarding the unique needs of transgender and non-binary youth. In Sweden,there are policies that aim to protect transgender and non-binary youth from discrimination and to promote their sexualand reproductive health and rights, and an increasing number of residential homes claim to have LGBTQ competencewhen competing for placements. However, it is unclear how this affects the everyday experiences of trans and non-binaryyouth at residential homes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the practices and challenges of clinical social workers at residential care homes when working with gender identity and sexual health issues among young transgender andnon-binary youth. Eight semi-structured interviews focusing on professionals’ knowledge and experiences were conductedand analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Four themes emerged: i) Knowledge being a personal matter; ii) Heteronormativity and binarity creating consequences; iii) Handling discrimination and harassments; and iv) Creating a trustfulalliance. The results show that knowledge is a personal matter, and social work professionals seek the knowledge theyneed instead of receiving it in education or training. The contextual heteronormativity and binarity creating consequencesat the residential care home pose challenges for social workers and they have to find creative ways to support transgenderand non-binary youth and address the harassments and discrimination that these youth face. Moreover, the social workersshare their strategies regarding how they are creating a trustful alliance. Overall, they identify significant challenges todeveloping clinical social work that is affirming of transgender and non-binary youth.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2025
Keywords
Transgender and non-binary youth, Gender confirming practices, Youth residential homes, Clinical social workers, Sweden
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-68745 (URN)10.1007/s10615-024-00940-3 (DOI)001234531300001 ()2-s2.0-85194706016 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Malmö University
Available from: 2024-06-13 Created: 2024-06-13 Last updated: 2025-02-12Bibliographically approved
Hart, A., Löfgren, C., Carlström, C. & Elmerstig, E. (2024). A thin line between consent and abuse: Reflections on sexual experiences among Swedish young adults with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A thin line between consent and abuse: Reflections on sexual experiences among Swedish young adults with intellectual disabilities
2024 (English)In: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, ISSN 1744-6295, E-ISSN 1744-6309Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Research shows that young adults with intellectual disabilities struggle to understand the social codes embedded in sexual situations. This may lead to an incomprehension of sexual consent, or when consenting to sex may lead to abuse. This qualitative study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of sexual experiences and perceptions about sexual consent among Swedish young adults with intellectual disabilities. The data comprise 22 semi-structured interviews with young adults aged 18-35 with intellectual disabilities, thematically analyzed using sexual script theory as a theoretical framework. Four themes emerged from the analysis: Setting the sexual scene, Sexual self-awareness, Sexual communication and the necessity of clarification and Striving for a balance. The results show that the participants had a variety of sexual experiences and challenges associated with sexual consent, but also an agency that favors sexual situations. Further research is necessary to understand the complexities of sexual consent in this population.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2024
Keywords
Intellectual disabilities, sexual consent, sexual experiences, sexual script, thematic analysis
National Category
Health Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-71675 (URN)10.1177/17446295241276245 (DOI)001328936100001 ()39380312 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85205817542 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-10-22 Created: 2024-10-22 Last updated: 2024-11-14Bibliographically approved
Andersson, C., Carlström, C., Amroussia, N. & Lindroth, M. (2024). Using Twelve-Step Treatment for Sex Addiction and Compulsive Sexual Behaviour (Disorder): A Systematic Review of the Literature. Sexual Health & Compulsivity, 31(2), 170-188
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Using Twelve-Step Treatment for Sex Addiction and Compulsive Sexual Behaviour (Disorder): A Systematic Review of the Literature
2024 (English)In: Sexual Health & Compulsivity, ISSN 2692-9953, Vol. 31, no 2, p. 170-188Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this study is to explore the current scientific evidence for using the twelve-step method as a treatment method for sex addiction and compulsive sexual behavior (disorder). Peer-reviewed empirical articles on the twelve-step method and sex addiction and compulsive sexual behavior (disorder) written in English, Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish, retrievable in selected databases were included. No limits were set on publication date or study design. The systematic review resulted in eight empirical studies which were read and assessed according to the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. The results were inconclusive, and we found only three articles of high quality, where the samples were composed mainly by men, which indicate that peer-therapy in combination with individual therapy might be beneficial. That twelve-step treatment rests heavily on the idea of sex addiction was unproblematized in most of the publications. Overall, the findings raise issues concerning who benefits from this treatment.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024
National Category
Clinical Medicine
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-67313 (URN)10.1080/26929953.2024.2339208 (DOI)001207967000001 ()2-s2.0-85191323853 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-05-20 Created: 2024-05-20 Last updated: 2024-12-03Bibliographically approved
Carlström, C. (2023). BDSM, intercorporeality and the feeling body (2ed.). In: Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Carmen H. Logie, Christy E. Newman, Richard Parker (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights: (pp. 250-258). Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>BDSM, intercorporeality and the feeling body
2023 (English)In: Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights / [ed] Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Carmen H. Logie, Christy E. Newman, Richard Parker, Routledge, 2023, 2, p. 250-258Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter, informed by ethnographic fieldwork in BDSM communities in Sweden focuses on the bodily aspects of BDSM. Drawing on the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the living body and intercorporeality, it analyses the embodied interactions, sensations and emotions that encompasses BDSM practice. BDSM can create spaces in which practitioners not only explore bodily boundaries, strong emotions and states of subspace and domspace, but it can also enable a wordless bodily empathy in which practitioners can experience feelings of belonging, intimacy and trust.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023 Edition: 2
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-64752 (URN)10.4324/9781003278405-30 (DOI)2-s2.0-85180043874 (Scopus ID)9781032243986 (ISBN)9781003278405 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-12-27 Created: 2023-12-27 Last updated: 2023-12-27Bibliographically approved
Carlström, C. (2023). Emotions, power and BDSM: the stance of the ethnographer. In: Brandy Simula; Robin Bauer; Liam Wignall (Ed.), The power of BDSM: Play, Communities, and Consent in the 21st Century (pp. 284-298). Oxford University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Emotions, power and BDSM: the stance of the ethnographer
2023 (English)In: The power of BDSM: Play, Communities, and Consent in the 21st Century / [ed] Brandy Simula; Robin Bauer; Liam Wignall, Oxford University Press, 2023, p. 284-298Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The chapter examines ethnographic fieldwork within the realm of BDSM, with a focus on the ethnographer´s emotions, participation, and etic reflections. Based on years of researching Swedish BDSM communities, with diary and field notes, the author reflects upon different situations and events which, in various ways, have had personal effects and given rise to ethical reflections and dilemmas as well as strong emotions. The complex relationships between the field, its actors, and the ethnographer are important and salient for all of those who engage in such fieldwork. Ethnographic work requires a high level of personal commitment but also enables a voice to be given to stigmatized populations, prejudices to be revealed, and informants’ feelings, lives, situations, dilemmas, and ambitions to be nuanced, though it can sometimes be very exhausting emotionally for the ethnographer. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2023
Series
Sexuality, Identity, and Society Series
Keywords
BDSM, power, emotion, ethnographic fieldwork, Sweden
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-59353 (URN)10.1093/oso/9780197658598.003.0016 (DOI)2-s2.0-85173846604 (Scopus ID)9780197658598 (ISBN)9780197658611 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-04-24 Created: 2023-04-24 Last updated: 2023-12-12Bibliographically approved
Carlström, C. (2023). En villkorad gemenskap: Hbtq, sexualitet och kristen frikyrklighet. Stockholm/Göteborg: Makadam Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>En villkorad gemenskap: Hbtq, sexualitet och kristen frikyrklighet
2023 (Swedish)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Homosexualitet, bisexualitet, trans och queer har under lång tid utgjort ett laddat ämne i kristna frikyrkor. Vissa samfund har i takt med samhälleliga förändringar blivit alltmer bejakande, medan andra ser förändringarna som oförenliga med grundläggande kristna värderingar.

 En villkorad gemenskap baseras på djupintervjuer med 29 kristna hbtq-personer och utgör den första svenska vetenskapliga studien i ämnet. Med en fenomenologisk ansats undersöker författaren hur sexualitet, intimitet och tro erfars av de intervjuade samt hur deras kristna identitet samverkar med deras identitet som hbtq-personer.  

En villkorad gemenskap riktar sig till lärare, forskare och studenter i exempelvis religionsvetenskap, sexologi, genusvetenskap och psykologi. Boken är också av intresse för den som i sitt yrke behöver kunskap i ämnet, till exempel själavårdare och terapeuter. Vidare kan den fungera som underlag för samtal och reflektion om tro, sexualitet och hbtq inom frikyrkliga sammanhang.

 Charlotta Carlström är doktor i socialt arbete och verksam som forskare och lärare på Centrum för sexologi och sexualitetsstudier vid Malmö universitet. Hennes forskning berör olika perspektiv på sexualitet, kön, makt, intimitet och religion.

 

Abstract [en]

Homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender and queer have long been a sensitive topic in Christian churches. As society has changed, some denominations have become increasingly affirming, while others see the changes as incompatible with Christian values.

 A Conditional Community is based on in-depth interviews with 29 lgbtq Christians and is the first Swedish scientific study on the subject. Using a phenomenological approach, the author investigate how sexuality, intimacy and faith are experienced by the interviewees and how their Christian identity interacts with their identity as lgbtq people. 

A Conditional Community is aimed at teachers, researchers and students in fields such as religious studies, sexology, gender studies and psychology. The book is also of interest to professionals who require knowledge on the subject, such as pastors and therapists. Furthermore, it can serve as a basis for discussions and reflection on faith, sexuality and lgbtq in the Free Church contexts.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm/Göteborg: Makadam Förlag, 2023. p. 247
Series
Kriterium, ISSN 2002-2131
Keywords
hbtq, sexualitet, religion, kristendom, frikyrklighet
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Health and society
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-59033 (URN)10.22188/kriterium.43 (DOI)978-91-7061-427-9 (ISBN)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Available from: 2023-03-31 Created: 2023-03-31 Last updated: 2023-04-03Bibliographically approved
Carlström, C., Andersson, C. & Lindroth, M. (2023). LGBTQ plus Affirmative State Care for Young People in Sweden: New Knowledge and Old Traditions. British Journal of Social Work, 53(8), 3744-3760
Open this publication in new window or tab >>LGBTQ plus Affirmative State Care for Young People in Sweden: New Knowledge and Old Traditions
2023 (English)In: British Journal of Social Work, ISSN 0045-3102, E-ISSN 1468-263X, Vol. 53, no 8, p. 3744-3760Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Young LGBTQ+ people are over-represented in various forms of state care. They experience hardships during their placements and staff competence in addressing specific needs among LGBTQ+ youth is lacking. In this article, we investigate whether and how LGTBQ+ issues are considered and described in digital marketing for state care providers. The material consists of the homepages of residential care homes and secure state care institutions, which we analyse using critical discourse analysis. The results show that LGBTQ+ issues are largely invisible. Of the approximately 1,000 existing state care providers, only twenty stated that they worked with or had competence in LGBTQ+ issues. Among these, no secure state care institution offered LGBTQ+ competence at the time of the study. The descriptions of how care providers work with LGBTQ+ issues are characterised by heteronormativity where there is a mix of two types of language on the homepages regarding LGBTQ+ youth; on the one hand, a heteronormative, traditional description based on a binary understanding of gender; and, on the other, an LGBTQ+ inclusive language is used. However, the LGBTQ+ affirmative language has been imposed upon the traditional rather than being integrated into it, which comes across as superficial and unclear. International studies show that LGBTQ+ youth are over-represented in various forms of state care. Using critical discourse analysis, we investigated how LGBTQ+ youth, as a target group, are described and how LGBTQ+ competence is presented on the home pages of residential care homes and secure state care institutions for young people in Sweden. The results show that LGBTQ is largely invisible. Of the approximately 1,000 existing residential care homes, only 20 stated that they worked with or had competence in LGBTQ+ issues. No secure state care institution offered LGBTQ+ competence at the time of the study.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2023
Keywords
critical discourse analysis, LGBTQ, state care, Sweden, youth
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-61925 (URN)10.1093/bjsw/bcad152 (DOI)001008158700001 ()2-s2.0-85180107616 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-08-16 Created: 2023-08-16 Last updated: 2024-02-05Bibliographically approved
Augustsson, D., Carlström, C., Hall, E. & Liljefors Persson, B. (Eds.). (2023). Religion och samhällsförändring: Aktuella perspektiv i religionsvetenskaplig forskning. Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Religion och samhällsförändring: Aktuella perspektiv i religionsvetenskaplig forskning
2023 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Denna antologi erbjuder forskningsbaserade och didaktiska perspektiv på religion och samhällsförändringar. Antologin är resultatet av ett samarbete mellan forskare från flera olika discipliner vid Malmö universitet och visar på den mångfald av forskningsperspektiv som ryms inom ämnesområdet religionsvetenskap i Sverige idag.

Antologin vänder sig till studenter och verksamma lärare samt en vidare intresserad läsekrets som önskar få tillgång till aktuell forskning och fördjupa sin ämnesteoretiska kunskap. Genom fyra teman belyses aktuella perspektiv på brännande frågor inom samtida religionsvetenskaplig forskning: Religion, kön och sexualitet, Religion, unga och skola, Religion, möten och förändringar samt Religion, politik och samtid.

I en samtid som präglas av ständigt pågående förändring är religion och livsåskådningsfrågor synnerligen aktuella. Mötet mellan historiska traditioner och nutida samhällsutveckling visar hur inte bara religiösa rörelser, utan också människors trosuppfattningar och identiteter, omtolkas och förändras över tid. Undervisningen i religionskunskap i grund- och gymnasieskolan utgår från att kunskap om religion och andra livsåskådningar är central för vår förståelse av en omvärld som i allt större utsträckning präglas av mångfald och förändring.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2023
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Health and society
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-59034 (URN)9789147146963 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-03-31 Created: 2023-03-31 Last updated: 2024-01-12Bibliographically approved
Andersson, C. & Carlström, C. (2023). Swedish poly utopia: Dreams, revolutions, and crushed hopes. Sexualities, 26(7), 695-710, Article ID 13634607211056887.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Swedish poly utopia: Dreams, revolutions, and crushed hopes
2023 (English)In: Sexualities, ISSN 1363-4607, E-ISSN 1461-7382, Vol. 26, no 7, p. 695-710, article id 13634607211056887Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Polyamory means having a sexual and/or intimate relationship with more than one person at a time. In this study, we use in-depth interviews with 22 persons in Sweden who have experience of polyamorous or non-monogamous relationships to explore how polyamory can include imagining utopian relationships and spaces. Thematic analysis was done which indicated narratives of politically invested attempts to create communal living or societal change that resists capitalist and heteronormative nuclear-family arrangements as well as stories of everyday events that do not explicitly involve political ambitions. The range of utopian dreams and practices of the non-monogamous participants in our study, we argue, are examples of what Munoz calls concrete utopias, filled with joy and laden with disappointment in the face of potentiality and reality.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2023
Keywords
Polyamory, non-monogamy, utopia, anarchy, commune, Sweden
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-54074 (URN)10.1177/13634607211056887 (DOI)000810989400001 ()2-s2.0-85131718615 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2022-08-02 Created: 2022-08-02 Last updated: 2023-10-18Bibliographically approved
Carlström, C. (2023). "Vi bad att det skulle hända en naturkatastrof så att pride inte skulle bli av": pridefestivaler och frikyrklig kristendom. In: Dennis Augustsson; Charlotta Carlström; Emma Hall; Bodil Liljefors Persson (Ed.), Religion och samhällsförändring: Aktuella perspektiv i religionsvetenskaplig forskning (pp. 72-88). Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"Vi bad att det skulle hända en naturkatastrof så att pride inte skulle bli av": pridefestivaler och frikyrklig kristendom
2023 (Swedish)In: Religion och samhällsförändring: Aktuella perspektiv i religionsvetenskaplig forskning / [ed] Dennis Augustsson; Charlotta Carlström; Emma Hall; Bodil Liljefors Persson, Stockholm: Liber, 2023, p. 72-88Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2023
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-59035 (URN)9789147146963 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-03-31 Created: 2023-03-31 Last updated: 2023-03-31Bibliographically approved
Projects
Homosexuality is just a trend - Contemporary Discourses on Sexuality, Sexual Abuse and HBTQ in the Swedish Christian Free Churches [2018-01200_Forte]; Södertörn University
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