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.
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.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, quality of life, residential care, risk, social work, social work assistants, social workers, staff, violence, aggression, assessment, decision making;
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.
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.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mothers, needs, parental role, parents, parents with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, risk, social work, social workers, child development, children, decision making, families;
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(12), August 1999, pp.412-415.
Publisher:
Pavilion
Salford University's launch of their new joint nursing/social work training programme for learning disabilities practitioners has thrown starkly into relief the barriers and boundaries that impede joint working. This article describes the initial findings of a study canvassing the views of first intake of students, including roles, responsibilities and professional perceptions.
Salford University's launch of their new joint nursing/social work training programme for learning disabilities practitioners has thrown starkly into relief the barriers and boundaries that impede joint working. This article describes the initial findings of a study canvassing the views of first intake of students, including roles, responsibilities and professional perceptions.
Subject terms:
joint working, interprofessional relations, learning disabilities, nurses, qualifications, social workers, students, staff development, training, community learning disabilities teams, education;
Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(2), June 1999, pp.98-105.
Investigates the relationship between professional background, length of experience, understanding of the term 'challenging behaviour' and opinions of factors important in managing challenging behaviour in people with learning disabilities. Health workers identified significantly more definition criteria than social care workers, yet no significant difference was found between their overall scores for management criteria. Implications of the findings are discussed.
Investigates the relationship between professional background, length of experience, understanding of the term 'challenging behaviour' and opinions of factors important in managing challenging behaviour in people with learning disabilities. Health workers identified significantly more definition criteria than social care workers, yet no significant difference was found between their overall scores for management criteria. Implications of the findings are discussed.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, management, social welfare, social care, social care provision, social workers, staff, staff management, training, challenging behaviour, health care;
Textbook providing a concise introduction to policy and practice issues in community care. Contains chapters on: background developments 1957-88; the reforms and the mixed economy of care; towards a conceptual framework; values, assumptions and ideologies; values, theories and realities in learning disability services; users and carers perspectives; professional directions; professions in community care (including interprofessional relations); and teams in community care.
Textbook providing a concise introduction to policy and practice issues in community care. Contains chapters on: background developments 1957-88; the reforms and the mixed economy of care; towards a conceptual framework; values, assumptions and ideologies; values, theories and realities in learning disability services; users and carers perspectives; professional directions; professions in community care (including interprofessional relations); and teams in community care.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, interprofessional relations, learning disabilities, mixed economy of care, nurses, service users, social work history, social care provision, social workers, teams, user views, carers, community care, empowerment, ethics, health care;
Review looking at the diverse and sometimes contradictory perspectives and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders in community care services. Aims to record what they think has really been taking place. Contains chapters on: key issues; identifying need; users' perspectives; the perspective of black communities; older people; older people with dementia and their carers; people with learning difficulties; rationing, charging and costs; housing and community care; community care and substance misuse; and social services departments and their staff.
Review looking at the diverse and sometimes contradictory perspectives and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders in community care services. Aims to record what they think has really been taking place. Contains chapters on: key issues; identifying need; users' perspectives; the perspective of black communities; older people; older people with dementia and their carers; people with learning difficulties; rationing, charging and costs; housing and community care; community care and substance misuse; and social services departments and their staff.
Subject terms:
housing, learning disabilities, needs, older people, service users, social welfare law, social care provision, social workers, substance misuse, staff, user views, assessment, carers, black and minority ethnic people, charges, community care, dementia, health and social care law;
Brings together seminal papers, previously published in the journal Adoption and Fostering, contributing to the shaping of fostering practice. Includes articles on: local authority fostering in Wales; a comparative survey of specialist fostering; developing leaving care services; recruiting and retaining foster carers; gender, sex and sexuality in the assessment of prospective carers; assessing Asian families in Scotland; involving birth parents in foster care training; using respite care to prevent long term family breakdown; short term family based care for children in need; short term foster care; meeting the needs of sibling groups in care; fostering as seen by the carers children; fostering children and young people with learning difficulties; the importance of networks to partnership in child centred foster care; how foster carers view contact; the role of social workers in supporting and developing the needs of foster carers; the social worker's experience of contact; social work and the education of children in foster care; the health of children looked after by the local authority; the statutory medical and health needs of looked after children; how foster parents experience social work with particular reference to placement endings; foster carers who cease to foster; the implications of recent child care research findings for foster care; and the foster child - the forgotten party.
Brings together seminal papers, previously published in the journal Adoption and Fostering, contributing to the shaping of fostering practice. Includes articles on: local authority fostering in Wales; a comparative survey of specialist fostering; developing leaving care services; recruiting and retaining foster carers; gender, sex and sexuality in the assessment of prospective carers; assessing Asian families in Scotland; involving birth parents in foster care training; using respite care to prevent long term family breakdown; short term family based care for children in need; short term foster care; meeting the needs of sibling groups in care; fostering as seen by the carers children; fostering children and young people with learning difficulties; the importance of networks to partnership in child centred foster care; how foster carers view contact; the role of social workers in supporting and developing the needs of foster carers; the social worker's experience of contact; social work and the education of children in foster care; the health of children looked after by the local authority; the statutory medical and health needs of looked after children; how foster parents experience social work with particular reference to placement endings; foster carers who cease to foster; the implications of recent child care research findings for foster care; and the foster child - the forgotten party.
Subject terms:
law, learning disabilities, leaving care, local authorities, looked after children, needs, placement, recruitment, sexuality, short break care, siblings, social work methods, social workers, training, user participation, young people, Asian people, birth parents, children, education, foster care, foster carers, foster children, gender, health;