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Loneliness and social competence among preadolescents and adolescents with mild mental retardation
- Authors:
- MARGALIT Malka, RONEN Tammie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 6(2), 1993, pp.97-111.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Reports on a study whose findings demonstrated that in comparison to the younger group, adolescents received a more reserved acceptance by their peers, although they reported themselves to feel less lonely and showed higher rates of social competence in terms of less behaviour maladjustment and higher empathy and self-control skills.
A need-to-know issue
- Author:
- MARCHANT Catriona
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.10.93, 1993, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Sex education for young people with learning difficulties can still be very much a taboo subject for social workers, carers and parents. Discusses how the personal and sexual relationship needs of these young adults can be met.
Attachment theory and the adoption of children with special needs
- Authors:
- GROZE Victor, ROSENTHAL James A.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research and Abstracts, 29(2), June 1993, pp.5-12.
- Publisher:
- National Association of Social Workers
Examines attachment theory as it relates to adopted children with special needs, from two different theoretical perspectives: the social control perspective and the ethological perspective. Mistreatment history affects attachment from both perspectives. Physical or sexual abuse before adoptive placement is negatively associated with attachment as viewed from both perspectives. The strengths of associations of many preplacement variables to level of attachment are generally quite modest. Implications of findings for practice and research are discussed.
Quality counts
- Author:
- MILES Adrian
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.5.93, 1993, pp.vi-vii.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Birmingham SSD have made user involvement the cornerstone of their quality initiatives. They have drawn on the lessons learnt during the Community Care Special Action Project. Looks at user involvement in two projects: the Connections scheme which supports people with learning difficulties and the Young People's Forum which involves young people aged 11 and above who are being 'looked after' by the SSD.
The power of property
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.4.93, 1993, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Home ownership is becoming a reality for people with learning difficulties in the USA due to the work of David Wizansky. With a group of parents of young adults with learning difficulties he created a housing association in which residents jointly owned the equity but were free to sell their individual shares if they wished to move. The only criteria for entry into the scheme was that would-be owners had to be able to look after their personal care needs. Looks at how the scheme operates and the benefits that it offers.
Meeting the personal and sexual relationship needs of children and young adults with a learning disability
- Author:
- BARNARDO's
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
Guidelines which look at policy and practice issues, the law and sexuality, the sexual abuse of disabled people, and training and resource material.
The significant touch
- Author:
- TISSIER Gerry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.5.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Visits a new community care project for people with learning difficulties, sensory impairment and physical disability. The project was initiated by the parents forming a local branch of SENSE in Maidstone, Kent; and they approached HI Kent and Kent SSD to show how the project would benefit social services. Describes how the service was sent up and looks at its aims.
Groupwork with parents of learning disabled adolescents
- Author:
- GOBAT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Groupwork, 6(3), 1993, pp.221-231.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
An account of two groups for parents of children with learning disabilities, which focussed on issues around their adolescence and were based on a psychotherapeutic model of groupwork.
Funding special needs housing: a guide for housing associations and their partner agencies to the new capital and revenue funding framework
- Author:
- BENNETT Shaun
- Publisher:
- National Federation of Housing Associations
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 80p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a comprehensive guide for housing associations and their partner voluntary organisations on how to develop special needs housing under the Housing Corporation's new funding framework and how this framework applies to existing special needs schemes developed under the previous system.
European social services
- Editor:
- MUNDAY Brian
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. European Institute of Social Services
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 401p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Detailed account of social services in the twelve member states of the European Community. Contains sections on: organisation, responsibility and finance for social services; preventative services; children and families; elderly people; people with disabilities; addictions; illnesses; AIDS/HIV; socially excluded people; young people; services for migrants; names and addresses of major public and private social services agencies.