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Person centred practice for professionals
- Editors:
- THOMPSON Jeanette, KILBANE Jackie, SANDERSON Helen, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 316p.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
This text offers a range of practical, person centred and evidence based approaches to tackling challenges faced by professionals working with people with learning disabilities. It helps the reader to analyze issues relating to person centred practice and citizenship and considers the implications of this key government initiative for health and social care professionals. The authors aim to support professionals in working through this changing agenda, whilst identifying the interface between their own professional practice and person centred approaches to working with people who have a learning disability. In addition, the book also: explores the historical context of learning disability services and how this has contributed to the development of person centred services; introduces a range of practical person centred thinking tools that can be readily used within professional practice; contains a model to inform the delivery and integration of person centred practice within professional practice; considers the contribution of a range of different professional roles to the person centred and self directed support approach; and finally evaluates the relevance of person centred thinking and planning to people from different cultural backgrounds and those undergoing the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Person-centred support: what service users and practitioners say
- Authors:
- GLYNN Michael, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 93p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study examines person-centred support, a key new concern in public services. It does this by bringing together for the first time the views, ideas and experience of service users, face to face practitioners and managers. Government is committed to ‘personalisation’, ‘self-directed support’ and ‘individual budgets’ in social care, aiming for increased choice and control for the people who use services. This is a move away from traditional, 'one-size-fits-all' approaches.
Person centred planning and care management with people with learning disabilities
- Editors:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul, CARNABY Steven (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 240p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This timely book provides a reflective analysis of person centred planning for people with learning disabilities, complementing policy initiatives that focus on individualised planning and service user involvement. Drawing on practical experience and research findings, the contributors explore policy and practice issues, including: advocacy and empowerment; risk management and adult protection; inter-agency and inter-professional working ethnicity and culture; and de-institutionalisation.Case studies illustrate best practice in person centred planning, and the authors offer a rich variety of ideas for increasing the participation, self-esteem and quality of life of people with learning disabilities.