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We can do it too
- Author:
- OAFF Bea
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 22.03.06, 2006, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
Many people assume adventure holidays are off limits to disabled young people, but this article highlights a number of organisations across the country that are proving otherwise.
Strength: broadsides from disability on the arts: an anthology of writing on: disability, the arts, and disability arts
- Author:
- MASEFIELD Paddy
- Publisher:
- Trentham Books
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 240p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Stoke-on-Trent
This book focuses on disability arts. Drawn from over 50 of the author's speeches, it offers readers the excitement and diversity of Disability Arts and the artistic expression of formerly excluded sectors of society, such as people with learning disabilities and survivors of the mental health system. It is concerned not with their medical impairments but with the insight and originality of their art works that are beginning to fill a space on the canvas of arts history that has too long been blank. "Strength" is intended for disabled and non-disabled people, arts professionals, teachers and students of the arts, sociology and humanities, from school to university level.
The relationship between child disability and living arrangement in child welfare
- Authors:
- ROMNEY Stephanie C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 85(6), November 2006, pp.965-984.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
In this American study the influence of disabilities on placement outcomes was examined for 277 children who were removed from their biological parents due to substantiated maltreatment. Results indicate that children with a disability were less likely to reunify and more likely to reside in nonkin foster care two years later than typical children. Children with cognitive, emotional/behavioural, and physical disabilities were over four times more likely to be permanently living in nonkin foster care than to be reunified.
Disability and psychology: critical introductions and reflections
- Editors:
- GOODLEY Dan, LAWTHOM Rebecca, (eds)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 228p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book critically examines the relationship between disability studies and psychology. By illuminating the interpersonal, social, cultural, historical and political causes of "disability" (the exclusion of people with physical, sensory or intellectual impairments), the editors and contributors propose ideas for enabling psychological theory and practice.
Reminiscence and recall: a practical guide to reminiscence work
- Author:
- GIBSON Faith
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 304p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd
The handbook includes advice on planning and doing successful reminiscence work with people of all ages, individually or in groups, in residential or community settings. It will help readers to develop the attitudes, knowledge, understanding and skills needed to encourage people to value themselves by valuing their pasts. This book also includes new material on intergenerational work, reminiscence with terminally ill and bereaved children and adults, working with minority ethnic elders, building partnerships with libraries, museums and community arts organisations, promoting social inclusion through reminiscence, and staff training. Other topics include: working with people with sensory and learning disabilities, with dementia, and those who are depressed or terminally ill.
Disabled children, maltreatment and attachment
- Author:
- HOWE David
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 36(5), June 2006, pp.743-760.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Two bodies of literature on children with disabilities are identified and described. One recognizes an association between disability and maltreatment. The other finds an association between children with a disability and insecure attachments. The present paper seeks a theoretical integration between these two research traditions. The model generated examines the dynamics that affect a child with a disability’s attachment classification and risk of being maltreated in terms of a transaction between both parental and child factors. In the case of children with certain types of disability, unresolved parental states of mind with respect to attachment are seen as a risk factor for maltreatment. Implications for prevention, support and treatment are considered.
Disabled children, parent-child interaction and attachment
- Author:
- HOWE David
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 11(2), May 2006, pp.95-106.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines the effect of various types of children's disability on parent–child interactions, including how disabilities affect parental sensitivity and communications. A brief outline of attachment theory and patterns of organization is followed by a review of the research evidence that has looked at children with disabilities and insecure attachments. A complex picture emerges in which it is not a child's disability per se that is associated with insecure attachments but rather an interaction between children with disabilities and the caregiver's state of mind with respect to attachment. Transactions between both child and caregiver vulnerability factors affect sensitivity, communications and security of attachment. Practice implications for prevention, advice and support are considered.
Help is just a phone call away
- Author:
- BARTLETT Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.03.06, 2006, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Support for new parents who are disabled is rare. This article reports on the Disabled Parents Network’s Support Service, the winner of Community Care's 2005 Maureen Oswin Memorial Award.