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Empowering high-risk families of children with disabilities
- Authors:
- FARBER Michaela L.Z., MAHARAJ Ravita
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 15(6), November 2005, pp.501-515.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study evaluated an adapted version of a group-based manualized parent education curriculum applied to meet the parenting needs of high-risk African American families rearing children with developmental delays. Eligibility criteria for participation required that the parenting adult had at least one child with developmental delay resulting in the receipt of special education services; live in a area known for urban poverty and have voiced concerns with their own or close family members' struggles with substance abuse. Three successive cohorts were assessed for statistical equivalence and evaluated using a one group pre- and postdesign followed by a booster session. Dependent variables used self-reports of caregivers’ empowerment, emotional outlook, parent-child interaction, and community involvement. All outcomes evidenced statistically significant and practically meaningful positive trends subject to design limitations. It is concluded that the adaptations met the program needs of targeted participants. Future recommendations are discussed.
Social work, psychiatry and the law
- Authors:
- PRINGLE N.N., THOMPSON P.J
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 210p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Explores the approved social worker's role in contemporary mental health practice. Combines a description of various aspects of multi disciplinary working, with accounts of clinical signs and syndromes, set against the possibilities and challenges inherent in the ASW's duties. Includes chapters on: law, policy and practice; psychiatry, diagnosis and treatment; severe mental health problems; disturbances in children and young people; people with learning difficulties; culture and diversity; substance misuse; dangerousness, suicide and homicide; ethical issues; and developing a psychotherapeutic approach to approved social work.
Rights, needs and the user perspective: a review of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
- Editors:
- BALLOCH Sue, et al
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 105p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Review looking at the diverse and sometimes contradictory perspectives and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders in community care services. Aims to record what they think has really been taking place. Contains chapters on: key issues; identifying need; users' perspectives; the perspective of black communities; older people; older people with dementia and their carers; people with learning difficulties; rationing, charging and costs; housing and community care; community care and substance misuse; and social services departments and their staff.
Review of health and social services for mentally disordered offenders and others requiring similar services: volume 5; special issues and differing needs; the report of the official working group on services for people with special needs
- Authors:
- REED John, chair
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 142p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents discussion papers on the special needs of mentally disordered offenders. Includes papers covering the following groups: people with learning difficulties; people with brain injury; the deaf or hearing impaired; substance misusers; sex offenders with mental health care needs; and potential suicides. Also looks at the special needs arising from a person's ethnic, cultural or social background, age or gender including: ethnic minority groups; children and adolescents; elderly people; women; and homeless mentally disordered offenders.