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Outside the asylum
- Authors:
- WRIGHT David, BARTLETT Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(12), August 1999, pp.404-405.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article provides an abstract of a new history of mental health and learning disabilities care which traces models of community care back to its Victorian and earlier antecedents.
A real and present danger
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.99, 1999, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Finds out how a social worker calculated the risk of reoffending when a sex offender with learning difficulties came before the court.
Applying a strengths-based practice approach in working with people with developmental disabilities and their families
- Author:
- RUSSO Rosalie J.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 80(1), January 1999, pp.25-33.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This article integrates key concepts of a strengths-based practice approach and social work practice with people with mental retardation and their families. Principles of a strengths approach are discussed with its impact on the engagement process, nature of the worker-client relationship, assessment, process of change, and disengagement process in working with people with learning difficulties and their families. Examples of a creative application of the model are discussed. Obstacles to incorporating this practice approach into agency-based practice are addressed.
Social work assessment of adaptive functioning using the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales: issues of reliability and validity
- Authors:
- CABRERA Peter M., GRIMES-GAA Lucienne, THYER Bruce A.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2(4), 1999, pp.33-50.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The assessment of client adaptive functioning is often an important component of a comprehensive social work evaluation. The Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales (VABS) are the most commonly used quantitative measures of adaptive functioning for clients meeting the criteria for a wider range of disorders in the USA. Reviews the development of the VABS and current knowledge pertaining to the instrument's reliability and validity. Concludes that the ability to administer and interpret the VABS is an important skill for clinical social workers to acquire.
One job two skills
- Author:
- SIMS Dave
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.12.99, 1999, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues joint practitioners could be the driving force behind changing attitudes to joint working, provided they are supported.
Rooting it out
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.10.99, 1999, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Social worker talks about how she tackled the problem of what to do about a residential care resident with learning difficulties whose aggressive behaviour posed a risk to staff and himself.
Family matters
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.9.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Finds out how a social worker in a children with disabilities team in Hackney tackles the difficult issue of whether the needs of a child with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and learning difficulties could be met at home from a vulnerable mother who lacks parenting skills, but nonetheless provides love.
Language and meaning: developing a framework to support client specific professionals
- Author:
- McINTOSH P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(3), 1999, pp.168-172.
Joint training and practice in the field of learning disability is a growing phenomenon. This paper offers a philosophical basis to a debate on the representation of the concept of interprofessionalism. Arguments are made to develop an empirical base in order to further understand joint practices and thought, particularly around the language and meaning of the concept of collaboration.
Issues in the management of clients with the dual diagnosis of learning disability and mental illness
- Author:
- BARLOW C.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(3), 1999, pp.159-162.
The dual diagnosis of learning disability and mental illness represents a significant challenge to health and social care practitioners and their existing practices. Currently this group has its service delivery undermined by inter-agency wrangling over responsibility for management and resource allocation. The key to resolving these problems lies in effective multi-agency collaboration. This paper examines the taxing problems of assessment, planning and intervention in this arena. It will offer examples of good practice from the Area Child Protection Committee model.