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Assessment – what is important to this person?
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 23(3), Spring 2010, pp.19-20.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Assessment is the systematic collection, recording and interpretation of information for a particular purpose. In the past, it has been usual for some very negative information to be collected about people with learning disabilities, sometimes as a supposed way of identifying needs, but sometimes as a trigger for control, subversion and oppression. This short article urges students to develop positive values towards people with learning disabilities and an orientation towards positive information about them. These principles, the author suggests, can, and should be, reflected in assessment.
Social work with people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Paul
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 155p.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
Based around the government White Paper, Valuing People (2001), this title is the only up-to-date book on the subject. It outlines the progress made towards achieving the paper's aims and helps students to work towards assessing the needs and circumstances of people with learning difficulties. Throughout the book case studies, summaries of contemporary research and suggestions for further reading aid and reinforce learning. Part of the Transforming Social Work Practice series, it is written for students on the social work honours degree.
Social work with people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Paul
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 174p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Written specifically to support students on the social work degree, this book aims to provide a positive picture of people with learning difficulties, describe the roles a social worker might play in relation to people with learning difficulties, and describe developments resulting from the 2001 Government White Paper Valuing People on services for people with learning difficulties. The author presents work with people with learning difficulties as potentially long-term, provides information and materials for reflection relating to the National Occupational Standards for Social Work, emphasises the importance of values and respect for people with learning difficulties and promoting equality and partnership in relationships between social workers and people with learning difficulties, and presents current policy as the result of knowledge, skills and understanding developed through research, philosophy and practice. The book covers what is meant in practice by the term people with learning difficulties, a historical account of the development of values, the role of the social worker with people with learning difficulties, considerations that are useful for assessing needs and circumstances at different life stages of a person with learning difficulties, issues concerning assessment, service planning and service evaluation, the nature and management of risk involving people with learning difficulties, protection and advocacy, and empowerment of people with learning difficulties including enabling them to participate in and contribute to relationships and community life. Learning activities, research summaries and case studies are included.