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- Author:
- BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.10.97, 1997, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how for parents with learning difficulties dealing with officialdom often means being ignored or fobbed off. Looks at how, by having someone at their side, parents can make public services listen.
Advocacy for parents with learning difficulties: developing advocacy support
- Authors:
- BOOTH Wendy, BOOTH Tim
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 79p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Describes the work of Parents Together, a pioneering action research project, which set out to support parents with learning difficulties in ways that were non stigmatising, non intrusive, and responsive to their own experience. Used an advocacy approach to challenge discriminatory views of parents' competence and lighten the load on families by reducing the environmental pressures that undermined them. Combines a full account and evaluation of the project with detailed practice guidance.
Not so ordinary childhoods
- Authors:
- BOOTH Wendy, BOOTH Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 10(4), April 1997, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Very little is known about the long term outcomes for children brought up by parents with learning difficulties. The authors discuss the results of their research which shows that children were not significantly disadvantaged and that where there were difficulties it was often the result of a lack of external support.
Exceptional childhoods, unexceptional children: growing up with parents who have learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 40p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report presenting an overview of the findings from a study of now-adult children who grew up in a family where at least one of the parents had learning difficulties.
Supported parenting for people with learning difficulties: lessons from Winconsin
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Representing Children, 9(2), 1996, pp.99-107.
- Publisher:
- National Youth Advocacy Service
Describes the work of the authors who are currently working on an action research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The aim of the project is to develop a local support network for parents with learning difficulties which is based on the principles of advocacy and self help.
Parental adequacy, parenting failure and parents with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 2(3), May 1994, pp.161-172.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The incidence of parenting failure among people with learning difficulties is widely presumed to be high although existing research is characterised by a number of methodological shortcomings. Draws on material from an in-depth study of people with learning difficulties to show that the three variables commonly used to assess parental inadequacy - child care problems, the admission of a child into care or the termination of parental rights - cannot be taken at face value as evidence of lack of competence or parenting failure. Such outcomes are more accurately viewed as deficiencies in services or supports.
Family undoing
- Authors:
- BOOTH Wendy, BOOTH Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 21(4), December 1993, pp.137-140.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Relates the story of parents with learning difficulties, arguing for the development of more responsive services based on careful listening to users.
Power to parents
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 1.9.93, 1993, p.61&62.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Drawing on lessons from research, puts forward a series of good practice principle for practitioners working with parents with learning difficulties.
Parents together: action research and advocacy support for parents with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(6), November 1999, pp.464-474.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes the work of Parents Together, a pioneering action research project that set out to support parents with learning difficulties in ways that were non-stigmatising, non-intrusive and responsive to their perceptions of their own needs. Based on an explicit model of parenting and social support, Parents Together used an advocacy approach to challenge discriminatory views of parents' competence and to lighten the load on families by reducing the environmental pressures that undermined them. Concludes by drawing out the wider lessons of the project for policy and practice.
Parental competence and parents with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), May 1996, pp.81-86.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Parental adequacy is widely seen as a function of individual parenting skills. This assumptions renders parents with learning difficulties vulnerable to discriminatory treatment in child protection work. A presumption of incompetence leads practitioners to focus on the parents' deficits and intensifies concerns about the welfare of the children. Using case material from a recent study, the authors argue for a wider conception of good-enough parenting that takes into account the external pressures that impact on family functioning.