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Deinstitutionalisation: the management of rights
- Author:
- JOHNSON Kelley
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(3), June 1998, pp.375-387.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article is based on an ethnographic study of the closure of a large institution for people with intellectual disabilities in Australia. Argues that deinstitutionalisation is a problematic process because it necessarily involves a tension between two incompatible discourses: one concerned with the 'rights' of people with intellectual disabilities and the other with their 'management'. This tension leads inevitably to compromises in the practice of deinstitutionalisation. Concludes by exploring the implications of this argument for future institutional closures.
People, plans and possibilities: exploring person-centred planning
- Author:
- BARCLAY Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(2), October 1998, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reviews a recently published book on person-centred planning in which the authors argue that people with disabilities still have no power to make decisions about major changes in their lives.
Private lives?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.6.98, 1998, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes the problem posed for a manager of a residential unit for adults with learning difficulties, when one of the men living there has started a sexual relationship with another resident and his mother is very unhappy about it.
Reconstructing the sexuality of men with learning disabilities: empirical evidence and theoretical interpretations of need
- Authors:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul, MELLAN Bryan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.293-311.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Research and practice in sexuality and learning disability has directly and indirectly highlighted the pathological sexual behaviour of men with learning disabilities, particularly their abuse and exploitation of women with learning disabilities, and relatively high HIV risk sexual behaviour with men without learning disabilities. It is consequently argued that there has been a relative neglect of their wider sexuality and sexual needs. This paper reconstructs this wider agenda, drawing on empirical evidence and theoretical interpretations of need from research and sex education in support of the observations made. In identifying a range of key issues for sexuality work with men with learning disabilities and arguing that they require greater recognition and attention, the paper also provides pointers for informing such work and for responding more widely.
Mental incapacity and decision-making: professional implications for social workers
- Author:
- BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 58p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
BASW position paper on the subject of mental incapacity and decision making, looking at: community care and social work; the Law Commission for England and Wales and the 'Mental incapacity report 1995'; the present position and BASW; standards of social work practice; rights and social needs of people with a mental incapacity; rights versus risks; inadequate care and the protection of adults with a mental incapacity; general health and communication; medical treatment and research; money and financial affairs; information and data resources; a code of practice; authorised officers; and a learning curve.
Mental incapacity and decision-making: professional implications for social workers; executive summary
- Author:
- BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Summary of a BASW position paper on mental incapacity and decision making.
Social work and the support model of services for people with developmental disabilities
- Author:
- MARY Nancy L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Education, 34(2), Summer 1998, pp.247-260.
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
This article discusses the evolution of service delivery for people with developmental disabilities from the medical model to the developmental model to the current support model. Today's service delivery model has changed the conceptualisation of consumers, service intent, and the role of professionals. In this context, the author examines the role of social work practice, education, and research in service provision for people with developmental disabilities.
All mothers together: talking about mothering and learning disabilities
- Author:
- CHINN Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Changes an International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 14(3), August 1996, pp.213-217.
The conjunction of motherhood and learning disabilities is seen as problematic: workers attempt to solve this problem in the way they establish a relationship with their clients. Through a detailed analysis of an interview with a social worker involved with a learning disabled mother this article reveals discourses of clienthood, learning disability and motherhood.
Social work practice with adults
- Authors:
- GALPIN Diane, BATES Natalie
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 124p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
Based on the direct experience of social work practitioners, this book has the specific aim of providing a critical and analytical exploration of contemporary issues in social work with adults. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and they cover; personalisation: from consumer rights to human rights, working with older people: managing risk and promoting interdependence, the rising profile of informal care: modernisation and the future of carers’ services, assessment and practice in learning disability services, direct payments and older people: developing a framework for practice, transformation: a future for social work practice? The book forms part of a series of texts written to support social workers studying for post qualifying awards. All are practical in their approach and link directly to the national occupational standards and the General Social Care Council requirements for Post Qualifying Social Work education. This book is also expected to be a useful resource for those completing the Consolidation and Preparation for Specialist Practice (CPSP) programmes.
Models of disability: the relationship between theory and practice in non-statutory organisations
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 19(1), February 1999, pp.5-29.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Drawing on a study exploring the meaning of the 'learning society' for adults with learning difficulties, this article examines the relationship between theory and practice in a number of voluntary and user organisations active in the learning disability field. It begins by outlining the ethos of normalisation and the social model of disability. Nine out of 10 organisations taking part in the study explicitly or implicity identified the social model as the main framework for their activities. However, significant inconsistencies in agencies accounts are identified at theoretical, policy and practice levels. A number of possible explanations for these findings are examined.