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Home and away
- Authors:
- GOODISON Lucy, ARMITAGE Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 14.11.91, 1991, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the crucial role social workers play in supporting families from ethnic minorities with a child with learning difficulties.
Personalisation - making it happen: the social worker's perspective
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- London
This film looks at the work of a personal budget team in Hull. It shows how the team works with people who use services to provide personalised care, focusing on one family where a mother is having difficulty coping with one of her adult sons who has learning disabilities. The opportunity to spend time at a garden centre transforms the life of her son, but also gives his mother a much-needed break. Without personalisation, this solution would not have been possible and the family would have been reliant on traditional services. Social workers from the team talk about their new ways of working and about the benefits it brings to both them and the people who use their services.
Interdisciplinary practice in developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- KROPF Nancy P., MALONE D. Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(1), 2004, pp.21-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Explores the development of interdisciplinary team practice within the field of development disabilities. Describes various interdisciplinary models, and reviews the role of the social worker. Concludes that as social workers practice as members of teams in a variety of contexts, a greater understanding of an interdisciplinary approach is warranted. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Family fortunes
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.1.97, 1997, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
People with learning difficulties have a better chance of finding out what services and benefits are on offer, thanks to a new MENCAP family advice scheme.
Painful passages: working with children with learning disabilities
- Author:
- DANE Elizabeth
- Publisher:
- National Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 241p.,list of orgs.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Annapolis Junction, Maryland
An American publication which looks at the role social workers can play in working with children with learning difficulties. Looks at the nature and evaluation of learning difficulties; developing a supportive environment; working with families of children with learning difficulties; the impact of federal legislation.
An interprofessional exploration of nursing and social work roles when working jointly with families
- Authors:
- BENNETT Elaine, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 30(2), 2016, pp.232-237.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Ngala, an early parenting not-for-profit organisation in Western Australia, has provided services to families with young children since 1890. Child health nurses and mothercraft nurses were the primary workforce until the 1980s when a social worker was employed and a new era of interprofessional collaboration began. Evidence to date has focused on nursing workforce, interprofessional education, and interprofessional teams. Little is known about the roles of nursing and social work when working jointly with families. A new service commenced in 2012 for families with children with developmental delays. Social workers and child health nurses were employed for this service model. The study's aim was to explore the perceptions of how nurses and social workers work together with a family providing psychosocial support across a new service. The study was conducted alongside implementation of this new service. An exploratory case study approach was adopted to generate an in-depth understanding of the roles of nurses and social workers. In total, 22 semi-structured interviews and one focus group across the first year of implementing the new service were undertaken. Analysis of these data revealed four major themes. Findings presented in this article will inform further reflection and consideration into the future interprofessional workforce priorities and requirements for Early Parenting Services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Child and family social workers’ experiences of working with parents with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- LEWIS Claire, STENFERT-KROESE Biza, O'BRIEN Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 9(6), 2015, pp.327-337.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: While an increasing number of adults with an intellectual disability are having children, research suggests that they face an increased risk of having their children removed. The purpose of this paper is to explore child and family social workers’ experiences of working with parents with intellectual disability, in order to further our understanding of this issue. Design/methodology/approach: Seven social workers were interviewed. Each had experience of working on safeguarding cases where a parent had a diagnosis of intellectual disability. Data were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Findings: Five super-ordinate themes were identified. These were: “feeling torn,” “experiencing a power imbalance,” “hopelessness,” having “pride” in their work’ and experiencing “barriers.” Research limitations/implications: The results are discussed in the context of the increased risk that parents with an intellectual disability face of having their children removed. Several areas for future research are identified. Practical implications: The study highlights several areas for development regarding services for parents with intellectual disability. Originality/value: The study describes some of the difficulties experienced by social workers in this area of their work, from their own perspective. It also strengthens existing ideas about improving services for parents with intellectual disability. (Publisher abstract)
Goodies and baddies: equivocal thoughts about families using an autoethnographic approach to explore some tensions between service providers and families of people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- DUMBLETON Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 7(3), 2013, pp.282-292.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
This paper will explore the power of history in affecting contemporary caring practice. Drawing on the author's personal experience as a social worker in Scotland, researcher and parent of a daughter with learning disabilities, the article will consider the ways in which the experience of (and to an extent, nostalgia for) the ‘heady days’ of de-institutionalisation continues to influence staff perceptions about their work. In doing so, this article will critique normative notions of choice and control that are at the heart of current moves towards self-directed support and personalised services. The author contends that staff who support people who have learning disabilities need something with which to compare and validate their practice. In the 1980s the hospitals were easily identifiable as something negative with which practice ‘in the community’ could be compared. In the twenty-first century the need for a comparator is still there, but the hospitals and many of their associated structures such as Adult Training Centres have gone. The paper argues that the family can be a contemporary structure against which current practice can be measured. (Edited publisher abstract)
More than one wavelength: identifying, understanding and resolving conflicts of interest between people with intellectual disabilities and their family carers
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS V., ROBINSON C.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 14(1), 2001, pp.30-46.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes conflicts of interest in families which include someone with intellectual disabilities. Data were taken from a study concerned with the 1995 Carers Act. The research examined the experiences and views of 51 families who had some kind of assessment by a social services department. Cases were analysed where it was found that carers, the people for whom they cared and the assessors did not agree about such conflicts. Argues that assessors sometimes stereotyped families and spoke of conflicts of interest when the situation was more complex. In particular, the real conflict was often between the whole family and an inadequate service system that did not offer enough support or choices to the individual. Conflicts were related to three major motives driving carers: the need for a break from caring; the need to speak for their disabled relative; and their concern for standards of behaviour. The present authors report on how these situations were handled by assessors and conclude with some recommendations for good carer assessments which will help to resolve conflicts of interest. Concludes that a greater degree of informed choice for individuals with intellectual disabilities will in itself resolve many potential conflicts of interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper accepted September 2000
Social work early intervention for young people with developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- MALONE Michael D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 25(3), August 2000, pp.169-180.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Social workers' awareness of and formal involvement in family-centred early intervention for infants who are at risk or who have developmental disabilities has increased over the past 15 years. This article provides an overview of the definition and identification of developmental disabilities, and discusses the role of and challenges to social work in early intervention.