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Changing selves: a grounded theory account of belonging to a self-advocacy group for people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- BART Suzie, HARDY Gilian, BUCHAN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), June 2004, pp.91-100.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim was to explore the experience of belonging to a self-advocacy group for people with intellectual disabilities, and how membership of such a group impacts on individual members. Eight people with intellectual disabilities, who belonged to a self-advocacy group for at least 6 months, were interviewed about their experiences of membership. A grounded theory approach was used to generate and analyse the interview data. A model of the impact of belonging to a self-advocacy group for people with intellectual disabilities on individual members' self-concept is developed. The model proposes that participants' self-concept changes as a result of group membership and that this process of change involves six key categories: joining the group; learning about and doing self-advocacy; becoming aware of group aims and identity; experiencing a positive social environment; identifying positive change in self-concept and seeing the future of self and group as interlinked. Membership of a self-advocacy group for people with intellectual disabilities changes the self-concept of participants. The processes surrounding these changes have important implications for self-advocacy groups both, in recruitment and in supporting group members.
Personnel services
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how fully involving service users in the selection of new staff can have positive results for employment practice, with benefits to staff and their clients.
Innovations in advocacy and empowerment for people with intellectual disabilities
- Editor:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Lisieux Hall Publications
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 279p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chorley, Lancs.
Focuses on advocacy and empowerment for people with learning difficulties. Includes chapters on: innovations in advocacy and empowerment; changing systems; self advocacy; the development of the international self advocacy movement; the impact of accessible information on people with learning difficulties; involving people with learning difficulties in the work of a public policy research institute; participation and empowerment through continuing education; empowerment through oral history and personal stories; setting up and running a health advocacy group for women; self advocacy by black people with learning difficulties; empowerment for older people; involving people with profound and multiple disabilities in person centred planning; involving people with learning difficulties in staff selection and recruitment; direct payments; partnerships in policy making; crime and the law; and helping people with learning difficulties to shape services.