Asks what do you do when a service user with learning difficulties and mental illness wants to return to normal life but, when she is given her wish, her life breaks down into dangerous behaviour.
Asks what do you do when a service user with learning difficulties and mental illness wants to return to normal life but, when she is given her wish, her life breaks down into dangerous behaviour.
Subject terms:
independence, learning disabilities, mental health problems, risk, social work methods, community care, decision making, deinstitutionalisation;
Social worker talks about how she tackled the problem of what to do about a residential care resident with learning difficulties whose aggressive behaviour posed a risk to staff and himself.
Social worker talks about how she tackled the problem of what to do about a residential care resident with learning difficulties whose aggressive behaviour posed a risk to staff and himself.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, quality of life, residential care, risk, social work, social work assistants, social workers, staff, violence, aggression, assessment, decision making;
Finds out how a social worker in a children with disabilities team in Hackney tackles the difficult issue of whether the needs of a child with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and learning difficulties could be met at home from a vulnerable mother who lacks parenting skills, but nonetheless provides love.
Finds out how a social worker in a children with disabilities team in Hackney tackles the difficult issue of whether the needs of a child with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and learning difficulties could be met at home from a vulnerable mother who lacks parenting skills, but nonetheless provides love.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mothers, needs, parental role, parents, parents with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, risk, social work, social workers, child development, children, decision making, families;