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Report of the development of understanding of the Family Based Intervention for Children with Cerebral Palsy and their Inclusion in the Community project from the perspectives of occupational therapy and community psychology
- Authors:
- KAGAN Carolyn, SCOTT-ROBERTS Sally
- Publisher:
- Manchester Metropolitan University. Interpersonal and Organisational Development Research Group
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Community psychology and occupational therapy offer some frameworks for self-aware social change, with an emphasis on value based, participatory work: one that is pragmatic and reflexive, whilst not wedded to any particular orthodoxy of method. Thus within a community psychological approach, different sources of information might be combined to develop an integrated picture of a complex change project. This project was conceived as an action research project.
'Doing motherhood': some experiences of mothers with physical disabilities
- Authors:
- GRUE Lars, LAERUM Kirstin Tafjord
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(6), October 2002, pp.671-683.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the experiences of physically disabled mothers. The authors interviewed 30 women in the age group 28-49 with medical diagnoses such as: multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular diseases, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury Becoming a mother implied for many 'capturing' a gender or 'recapturing' a lost gender. The women felt they had to go to great lengths to 'present' themselves and their children as managing 'normally' in order to be accepted as 'ordinary' mothers. Eventually, they feared that their children might be taken away from them if they did not live up to other people's expectations. One possible explanation for what they experienced as other people's scepticism might be that disabled people on the whole are primarily still looked upon as being dependent on other people's help and care. In short, they are often looked upon by professionals and lay people as receivers, and not as carers.
Physical health of adults with intellectual disabilities
- Editors:
- PRASHER Vee, JANICKI Matthew
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 286p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
In common with the rest of the population, people with intellectual disabilities are experiencing increased longevity. Evidence suggests that mental health disorders may occur in up to half of all persons with intellectual disability and that these disorders accelerate significantly with age. Part one: prevalence and diagnosis; part two: treatments and interventions.