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Friendship skills and opportunities among people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WALL Karen
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Research study looking at the importance of friendship in the lives of people with learning difficulties and at how social workers can help individuals improve their friendship skills and ensure that their friendship needs are being met.
Mental retardation: definition, classification, and systems of supports; workbook
- Author:
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ON MENTAL RETARDATION
- Publisher:
- American Association on Mental Retardation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
This book provides the background of the definition of mental retardation, demonstrates how to operationalise the process, and provides case studies and forms. The workbook and provides an overview of the definition and process, case studies, and forms.
Paradigms in intellectual disability: compare, contrast, combine
- Authors:
- BURTON Mark, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(1), 1998, pp.44-59.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Four relatively distinct traditions in work with people with intellectual disability are identified: ordinary living/normalisation, functional, behavioural and developmental. These approaches are analysed as paradigms which could be incompatible or compatible. The paradigms are explored in relation to a profoundly disabled man, whose case illustrates the complementarity of these approaches. It is suggested that the ordinary living paradigm is best seen as a basic guide to direction with the other paradigms feeding into it to help chiefly with implementation. However, the possibility is raised that rather than the co-existence of different paradigm, what is really being sought here is a new and super-ordinate paradigm that still awaits its full development.
Positive approaches to protecting from abuse: a workbook to support the mandatory units of the Certificates in Working with People who have Learning Disabilities
- Author:
- BRADLEY Alice
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 79p.
- Place of publication:
- Plymouth
Covers: the perpetrators of abuse, basic needs and neglect, disclosur, the investigation process and support needs in relation to abuse.
Reconstructing the sexuality of men with learning disabilities: empirical evidence and theoretical interpretations of need
- Authors:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul, MELLAN Bryan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.293-311.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Research and practice in sexuality and learning disability has directly and indirectly highlighted the pathological sexual behaviour of men with learning disabilities, particularly their abuse and exploitation of women with learning disabilities, and relatively high HIV risk sexual behaviour with men without learning disabilities. It is consequently argued that there has been a relative neglect of their wider sexuality and sexual needs. This paper reconstructs this wider agenda, drawing on empirical evidence and theoretical interpretations of need from research and sex education in support of the observations made. In identifying a range of key issues for sexuality work with men with learning disabilities and arguing that they require greater recognition and attention, the paper also provides pointers for informing such work and for responding more widely.
Social work with children and families: unit eleven; children and families and special needs
- Authors:
- HORNER Nigel, LLOYD Mick
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Unit eleven in a set of open learning texts on social work with children and families. Other units are: the social and political context; principles; the process of social work with children and families; direct work; working with adults in the family; working with the family as a group; child protection; looked after children; social work with families in transition; empowerment and partnership in work with children and families; and associated materials.
The prevalence and balance of care for intellectual disability: secondary analysis of the OPCS Disability Surveys
- Authors:
- KAVANAGH Shane M., OPIT Louis J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 12(2), 1999, pp.127-148.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper examines the feasibility of using the OPCS Disability Services to examine intellectual disability and provides estimates of prevalence and the balance of care between communal establishments and households, comparisons of disabilities and focuses on the care need of people living in households. The intention is to supplement recent information to local purchasing authorities and provide data against which local-based services can be compared.
Signposts in fostering: policy, practice and research issues
- Editor:
- HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 380p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
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.