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Structured observational research in services for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MANSELL Jim
- Publisher:
- NIHR School for Social Care Research
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The authors review structured observational research, primarily in services for people with learning disabilities. Observational research is of particular value where people using services are unable to answer interviews or questionnaires about their experiences, and where proxy respondents may not be sufficiently accurate sources of data. The review illustrates the use of observational data in assessing and improving the quality of services. Drawing on the published research evaluating services for people with learning disabilities, it deals with the question of what to observe and how to define it so that the information gathered is valid and reliable. It discusses sampling in order to obtain representative information, considers the practical steps that have to be taken in order to make observations in services, and, using examples from the research literature, it shows how to analyse and present observational data.
Person-centred active support: a multimedia training resource for staff to enable participation, inclusion and choice for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MANSELL Jim, et al
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 165p., bibliog, looseleaf, CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Training in person-centred active support includes both study-based and hands-on components. This pack offers the study-based component. It can be used both by trainers working in a group situation and by individual staff studying for their own personal development or as part of a required training course. This pack aims to enable front-line staff supporting people with learning disabilities to provide ‘active support’, providing enough help to enable people participate successfully in meaningful activities and relationships, irrespective of the level of disability of the service user or the presence of additional needs such as challenging behaviour.
Developing staffed housing for people with mental handicaps
- Author:
- MANSELL Jim
- Publisher:
- Costello
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 294p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Tunbridge Wells
Practical guide for staff involved in transition of people from institutional to community care. Based on a staffed housing scheme in Andover, Hampshire.
Staffing and staff training for a residential service
- Authors:
- MANSELL Jim, PORTERFIELD Jan
- Publisher:
- Campaign for People with Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 13p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Active support: enabling and empowering people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- MANSELL Jim, BEADLE-BROWN Julie
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 240p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This book provide a comprehensive overview of Active Support and how it can be used in practice, based on the theory and research underpinning the methods involved. It describes how to engage people with intellectual disabilities in meaningful activity as active participants, and looks at the communication style needed to foster positive relationships between carers and the people they are supporting. Highlighting the main issues for those trying to put Active Support into practice, the book explains what is needed on a day-to-day basis to support the implementation, improvement and maintenance of the approach, along with possible solutions for the difficulties they may encounter. Finally, it examines how to integrate Active Support with other person-centred approaches, drawing on examples from various organisations and individual case studies. This book is designed for anyone professionally concerned with the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities, including psychologists, behaviour specialists, social workers, care managers, occupational therapists and inspectors and regulators of services.
Deinstitutionalization and community living: outcomes and costs: report of a European study: volume 2: main report
- Authors:
- MANSELL Jim, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Tizard Centre
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 134p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
This detailed project aimed to bring together the available information on the number of disabled people living in residential institutions in 28 European countries, and to identify successful strategies for replacing institutions with community-based services, paying particular attention to economic issues in the transition. The overall aim of the project was to provide scientific evidence to inform and stimulate policy development in the reallocation of financial resources to best meet the needs of people with disabilities, through a transition from large institutions to a system of community-based services and independent living. The reports includes: the identification and collation of existing national data sources; description of the sequence and process of service development; comparison of the costs of community-based vs. institutional services; identification of transitional costs; and the analysis of political and economic strategies used to manage costs. Major recommendations included the harmonised data set at a European level, the publication of statistics demonstrating progress in each country, and the cost- effectiveness of community versus institutional models of residential care and change over time.
Deinstitutionalization and community living: outcomes and costs: report of a European study: volume 1: executive summary
- Authors:
- MANSELL Jim, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Tizard Centre
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
This project aimed to bring together the available information on the number of disabled people living in residential institutions in 28 European countries, and to identify successful strategies for replacing institutions with community-based services, paying particular attention to economic issues in the transition. The goal was seen as the provision of a flexible range of help and resources which can be assembled and adjusted as needed to enable all people with disabilities to live their lives in the way that they want but with the support and protection that they need. This is characterised by several features: separation of buildings and support; access to the same options as everyone else; choice and control for the disabled person and their representatives. Recommendations included: The European Commission should promote joint work between Member States and Eurostat to define a minimum data set for residential services for people with disabilities. The data set needs to be workable both for countries which still have services largely based in institutions, where the distinction between institutional care and care at home is very clear, and for countries which are in the advanced stages of replacing institutions with community-based services and independent living.
Care standards in homes for people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- BEADLE-BROWN Julie, HUTCHINSON Aislinn, MANSELL Jim
- Publisher:
- Tizard Centre
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
National minimum standards for residential care homes were introduced following the Care Standards Act 2000 in response to concern about lack of consistency and poor quality services. These standards are intended to reflect outcomes for service users and to be comprehensive in scope. This study compared ratings made by care standards inspectors with research measures for 52 homes for people with intellectual disabilities serving 299 people. The research measures focused on the lived experience of residential care, including engagement in meaningful activity, choice and participation in activities of daily living. They also included measures of related care practices and organisational arrangements. The research measures were in general significantly correlated with each other. Most of the care standards ratings were also correlated with each other.
Deinstitutionalization and community living: intellectual disability services in Britain, Scandinavia and the USA
- Editors:
- MANSELL Jim, ERICSSON Kent
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 307p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative study reviewing the changes that have taken place over the last 25 years in services to people with learning difficulties, focusing in particular on the development of care in the community. Includes papers on: closing institutions in New York State; issues in community services in Britain; deinstitutionalisation in the Norwegian welfare state; housing for people with learning difficulties; supported living programmes in the USA; the immediate psychological effects of deinstitutionalisation; transition to community services in Norway;and the impact on families of service users.