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A healthy dialogue: challenging the 'psycho-medical monologue' in services for people with challenging behaviours
- Author:
- GOBLE Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Changes an International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 16(4), Winter 1998, pp.287-293.
This paper explores the transformative potential of dialogue-based approaches in services for people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviours, and the necessity of challenging 'psycho-medical' discourses and culture.
Reflections on social integration for people with intellectual disability: does interdependence have a role?
- Author:
- CARNABY Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(3), September 1998, pp.219-228.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article examines the debate concerning the social integration of people with intellectual disability into the local community by considering the concept of independence in theory and in practice. A review of the literature in this area, is followed by a study of the support model in Milan, Italy, which places interdependence at the heart of the approach. The possibility of incorporating interdependence into British services is considered by calling for a reassessment of the ways in which relationships between people with disabilities and people with and without intellectual disabilities are valued by service providers.
Quality of life issues in the development and evaluation of services for people with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- McVILLY Keith R., RAWLINSON Rosanne B.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(3), September 1998, pp.199-218.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reviews and evaluates methodologies for the assessment and promotion of quality of life (QOL), a multidimensional and dynamic construct frequently used to measure psychological and physiological wellbeing in people with intellectual disability (ID). Objective and subjective components of QOL are critically reviewed, together with the social and psychological factors that impinge on it. Discusses contrasting approaches to the assessment of QOL, including process-centred approaches to evaluation. Proposes that the future research should directly address the question of concurrence in QOL evaluations between and people with ID and their proxies.
Towards a full life: researching policy innovation for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- FELCE David, et al
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 239p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Describes the results and implications of a sustained programme of research into a national policy to improve the quality of life and social standing of people with learning disabilities. The focus is on the 'All Wales Strategy' - a mould-breaking national policy which has direct relevance to all who are concerned about responsive, person-centred community care.
The BiLD life experiences checklist: manual
- Author:
- AGER Alastair
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 31p., bibliog., checklists
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
The revised and updated BILD Life Experiences Checklist is widely used in a range of service settings to evaluate and measure improvements in home life, leisure, relationships, freedom and opportunities. Each assessment takes around 10 minutes to complete and no special expertise is needed.
Paradigms in intellectual disability: compare, contrast, combine
- Authors:
- BURTON Mark, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(1), 1998, pp.44-59.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Four relatively distinct traditions in work with people with intellectual disability are identified: ordinary living/normalisation, functional, behavioural and developmental. These approaches are analysed as paradigms which could be incompatible or compatible. The paradigms are explored in relation to a profoundly disabled man, whose case illustrates the complementarity of these approaches. It is suggested that the ordinary living paradigm is best seen as a basic guide to direction with the other paradigms feeding into it to help chiefly with implementation. However, the possibility is raised that rather than the co-existence of different paradigm, what is really being sought here is a new and super-ordinate paradigm that still awaits its full development.
Age or disability? Age-based disparities in service provision for older people with intellectual disabilities in Great Britain
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WALKER Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(1), March 1998, pp.25-39.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article concentrates on the role of service providers in prescribing artificial limits to the potential of older people with intellectual disabilities. Argues that the key factor in this social creation of dependency is the age discriminatory attitudes held by some service providers and which distinguish between the different British service cultures in provision for older people and those for people with an intellectual disability. Thus the behaviour of care staff and the assumptions implicit in social policies can result in practices which reinforce dependency rather than empowerment.
The ownership option
- Author:
- WOOLRYCH Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, November 1998, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Home ownership can give people with disabilities the independence and quality of life they want. Reports that it can be a reality even for people on income support, and social workers should know the options available.
Communication skills and adults with learning disabilities: eliminating professional myopia
- Author:
- van der GAGG Anna
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 26(3), 1998, pp.88-93.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Effective communication is of crucial relevance to the quality of life of individuals with learning disabilities. Discusses the development of communication skills, outlining the essential components of a strategy for communication development. Highlights the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing the communication needs of adults with learning disabilities and stresses the need for agreed standards and procedures; careful co-ordination between health and social service agencies, and on-going monitoring of service provision. Recommends that progressive services incorporate an agreed strategy on how to build communication skills for all services users, in the same way that strategies on housing or employment might be formulated.
Caring for older people: developing specialist practice
- Editors:
- MARR Jim, KERSHAW Betty
- Publisher:
- Arnold
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 352p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Addresses the care of older people in the community, nursing and residential homes and in hospital settings from a nursing perspective. Contains a broad range of evidence based material covering aspects such as quality of life, mobility, social interaction, sexuality, community perspectives and the care of people with learning difficulties or mental health problems. Adopts a positive, modern role to nursing older people and recognises throughout that the goals of older people are concentrated on independence.