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Social work with people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Paul
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 155p.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
Based around the government White Paper, Valuing People (2001), this title is the only up-to-date book on the subject. It outlines the progress made towards achieving the paper's aims and helps students to work towards assessing the needs and circumstances of people with learning difficulties. Throughout the book case studies, summaries of contemporary research and suggestions for further reading aid and reinforce learning. Part of the Transforming Social Work Practice series, it is written for students on the social work honours degree.
Putting Wolfensberger into practice
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(2), December 1995, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The theory of Social Role Valorisation expounded by Professor Wolf Wolfensberger is intended to enable and disadvantaged people experience 'normal' life. The theory and how it was put into practice in individual cases is described by the author, director of the Community and Mental Handicap Educational and Research Association, and lecturer in social work.