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You choose: a handbook for staff working with people who have learning disabilities to promote self-esteem and self-advocacy
- Author:
- MOSLEY Jenny
- Publisher:
- LDA
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 102p.
- Place of publication:
- Wisbech
Practical handbook aimed at all staff working with people with learning difficulties who have an interest in developing self-esteem and self-advocacy work with their users. Contains over 40 sample groupwork sessions and blends theory with practical examples. Looks at: what self advocacy and self esteem are; disempowerment and empowerment; the value of groupwork in raising self-esteem and fostering self-advocacy skills; inititating a self-advocacy group; and personal accounts of groups and projects.
The social worker as appropriate adult under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
- Author:
- LITTLECHILD Brian
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 107p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Practical text detailing the role of social workers as outlined in the 1991 Codes of Practice on the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
Disseminating information: a method for human service practitioners
- Authors:
- SMITH N.J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 7(4), Summer 1994, pp.9-14.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
Describes the development of a computer application, funded by the Australian Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, on the management of menstruation to support parents and practitioners in the care of women with an intellectual disability. The system developed, a hypertext database, provided information in a non-linear manner, allowing users to make their own associations between units of information.
Incoherent self-narratives and disorders of the self in children with learning disabilities
- Author:
- PALOMBO Joseph
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 64(2), March 1994, pp.129-152.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Educators currently are giving considerable attention to the diagnosis and remediation of children with learning disabilities. The integration into clinical social work of this body of knowledge and experience presents a major challenge. Reviews the major paradigms of learning disabilities, and discuss those psychoanalytic developmental theories that have attempted to integrate the concept of neurocognitive differences in endowment into their frameworks.
The essential social worker: an introduction to professional practice in the 1990's
- Author:
- DAVIES Martin
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 237p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
In 4 sections: part 1 is a framework for the 1990's; part 2 is on the theory and practice of maintenance; part 3 looks at dimensions of practice; and part 4 details the skills, knowledge and qualities required by the 'essential social worker'.
Bereavement intervention with vulnerable populations: a case report on group work with the developmentally disabled
- Author:
- ROTHENBERG Eleanore Dubin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work with Groups, 17(3), 1994, pp.61-75.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The sudden death of a group member, in this case a developmentally disabled young adult, created a crisis requiring social work intervention in the form of a formalized bereavement program to help surviving group members and staff cope with their grief. The program described here evolved over the course of an eight-week intervention period. Social group work was combined with concrete methods, including religious rituals and art therapy, as well as supplementation with individual counselling, to help members of the group say "goodbye" to the deceased and to overcome their pain in order to return to their normal activities, as soon as possible.