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Going to the source: AFDC recipients' perspectives on their unemployment
- Authors:
- CARLEY Michael, HARDINA Donna
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Poverty, 3(3), 1999, pp.53-70.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Examines data on barriers to employment in the USA, using information from a survey of families on the Aid to Families with Dependent Children programme. Three primary factors were detected that included lack of available work and physical disability.
Planning effective future transitions
- Author:
- BLISS Madi
- Journal article citation:
- Soundtrack, 117, October 1999, p.11.
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
Discusses a project run in partnership with Luton Borough Council to develop family support services for South Asian families who have children with disabilities.
Challenging behaviour
- Author:
- SLEVIN Eamonn
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(7), March 1999, pp.242-245.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reviews the management of challenging behaviour in people with learning disabilities.
Applying a strengths-based practice approach in working with people with developmental disabilities and their families
- Author:
- RUSSO Rosalie J.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 80(1), January 1999, pp.25-33.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This article integrates key concepts of a strengths-based practice approach and social work practice with people with mental retardation and their families. Principles of a strengths approach are discussed with its impact on the engagement process, nature of the worker-client relationship, assessment, process of change, and disengagement process in working with people with learning difficulties and their families. Examples of a creative application of the model are discussed. Obstacles to incorporating this practice approach into agency-based practice are addressed.
How VOICE gives parents a say
- Author:
- HORROCKS Christiana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(3), January 1999, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
VOICE UK supports people with learning difficulties who have experienced crime or abuse, their families and carers, and campaigns for changes in the law and practice. Explains how the organisation involves parents in it's work.
If you don't ask you don't get: review of services for people with learning disabilities: the views of people who use services and their carers
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, et al
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 91p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The purpose of this three month study was to explore the views of people with learning disabilities who use services and their carpers. The overall picture that emerged was one of social isolation with many people in rural and urban settings and having few friends outside family and system. Everyone made use of community services, but this was often part of a group or with a staff member.
Multiple family groups: an alternative for reducing disruptive behavioral difficulties of urban children
- Authors:
- MCKAY Mary M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 9(5), September 1999, pp.593-607.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Presents an evaluation of a multiple family group (MFG) intervention designed to meet the mental health needs of low-income minority children and families. Comparisons were made with children who received MFG and those receiving individual or family therapy services. Follow up interviews revealed that seventy percent of MFG parents noted child improvements, in comparison to fifty four percent of parents whose children received individual family therapy.
Family matters
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.9.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
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.
Child sexual abuse and the black disabled child
- Author:
- BERNARD Claudia
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(3), June 1999, pp.325-339.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the effects of sexual abuse on black disabled children. Focusing on black children with learning disabilities, it examines how the dimensions of race, gender, and disability compound the problems they face after sexual abuse. It is argued that the way in which black disabled children and their families interpret their experience is likely to differ from other groups of disabled children. The article concludes with some reflections on the implications for making risk assessment for black disabled children.
'All we are really here for is storage, dear'. Psychodynamic approaches to the short term care of children with learning disabilities
- Author:
- PIKE N.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(1), March 1999, pp.3-10.
Short term care, both residential and family based, remains a cornerstone of family support services for children with learning disabilities. Discusses how research findings suggest that short term care services are primarily orientated to the support needs of families and carers, rather than the emotional security of the child. The author argues that psychodynamic approaches can both illuminate the experience of the child in the residential short term care setting, and suggests patterns of service that can enhance the well being of the child. The author proposes that careful attention to the building of therapeutic relationships in the context of everyday events such as meals, intimate personal care, individualised play activities and settling to sleep, can make a contribution to the personal growth of the child. The article concludes by considering some of the implications for staff development and deployment that follow from the adoption of such an approach.