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Paths to empowerment
- Editors:
- BARNES Marian, WARREN Lorna
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 148p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In two sections. Section one looks at definitions of empowerment, and existing models and practice. Section two discusses issues for research and researchers. Includes illustrations of different, and sometimes conflicting, voices to emerge from within the user movement and from among voluntary and statutory sector allies.
Empowerment theory and long-living women: a feminist and disability perspective
- Author:
- MORELL Carolyn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 7(3/4), 2003, pp.225-236.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Empowerment theory is central to social work and to feminist gerontology. Yet an emphasis on increasing power and control over the circumstances of one's life does not neatly “fit” the involuntary bodily realities that figure centrally in the experiences of late age. Argues that the paradox of late life empowerment is that it requires acceptance and affirmation of the weak, suffering, and uncontrollable body.
Community integration of older people with developmental disabilities in Hong Kong
- Authors:
- NGAN Raymond Man-Hung, LI Mark Kin-yin, CHEUNG Jacky Chau-kiu
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2(2/3), 2003, pp.101-119.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
To understand the community integration of adults with developmental disabilities in Hong Kong, a comprehensive measure includes four dimensions, pertaining to social activity, social services, interpersonal behavior, and people involved in social interaction. Applying this measure to 692 adults (aged 15-62), the territory-wide study finds that these adults lack company for out-of-home activities and community activities despite their higher knowledge, assertiveness, social interaction, and feeling accepted in the community. With the strengthening of many conditions (including knowledge and community support) for community integration, the adults tend to have greater need for empowerment to enhance their active participation in community activities.
Is help easily at hand?
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.5.04, 2004, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Direct payments were introduced to empower service users. Looks at their impact so far and the barriers that exist to people taking-up direct payments.
BSW students favor strengths/empowerment-based generalist practice
- Author:
- COX Leavelle A.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 82(3), May 2001, pp.305-313.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This article discusses the results of incorporating the strengths approach into a curriculum that employed a theoretical framework based on systems theory and problem-focused intervention. This approach was introduced in the USA in bachelor of social work (BSW) generalist practice courses in a school of social work where social justice is the guiding principle. BSW students used the strengths approach across a variety of client systems including the homeless, pregnant teenagers, the elderly, and the mentally and physically challenged. In a final class assignment, the students presented successful intervention outcomes with diverse populations using clients' strengths as the focus of problem resolution. The students' stories of their work and the use of this method for instruction showed evidence of clients' development of self-efficacy, increased self-esteem, and with clients taking more personal responsibility for their own change. The empowerment/strengths model developed by the author illustrates collaborative intervention with client and practitioner and applies a synergistic process to BSW students' practice with individuals, families, groups, organisations, and communities.
Direct payments offer older people hope of greater empowerment
- Author:
- HEPTINSTALL Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 3(1), January 1999, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Following a nine-month review, the Government has announced that direct payments will be extended to people aged 65 and over. In this guide to direct payments, the author explains the policy background, the origins of the idea, how they work and the problems of the present legislation. It calls for the right to direct payments to be made mandatory on all local authorities.
Research, knowledge and practice in community care
- Author:
- FISHER Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Issues in Social Work Education, 17(2), Autumn 1997, pp.17-30.
- Publisher:
- Association of Teachers in Social Work Education
Explores the kind of knowledge required for social work practice in community care, and draws a distinction between evidence-based and knowledge-based practice, and between knowledge for understanding and that designed to underpin intervention.
Community empowerment: a reader in participation and development
- Editors:
- CRAIG Gary, MAYO Marjorie
- Publisher:
- Zed Books
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 229p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reviews contemporary campaigns for community participation and empowerment with examples from Europe, the USA, Australia, South and South East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Critically assesses developments in the mixed economy of welfare in terms of their relevance for self-help and community participation. Considers the concept of empowerment and its relation to public policy and developments within social movements. Includes case studies.
A challenge to change: practical experiences of building user-led services
- Editors:
- BERESFORD Peter, HARDING Tessa
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 211p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together contributions from a wide range of people with practical experience of building user-led services. Offers real-life examples and guidance on how-to-do-it. Contributors include disabled people and other service users, practitioners, trainers, managers, advisers and researchers. In 5 parts: setting the agenda; user-led initiatives; provider-led initiatives; building models for change; and involvement for empowerment.
The changing consumer: the social context of culture change in long-term care
- Author:
- REDFOOT Donald L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Long-Term Care, 2(1/2), 2003, pp.95-109.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Sustaining “culture change” in long-term care or any other social system requires change in the underlying social structures that support a given culture. Due to the “medicalization” of contemporary long-term care, the cultural meanings of aging and disability have been increasingly defined and maintained through social structures associated with the medical professions. The “culture change” movement in long-term care is seeking to balance the power of the medical professions with more consumer empowerment. Over the next two decades, consumer empowerment will be supported by important demographic and socio-economic changes in the older population. Demographic empowerment will come from relatively small cohorts of older persons, declining disability rates, and stronger supports from informal caregivers. Socio-economic empowerment will come from higher levels of income, wealth, and educational attainment. Together these trends should provide powerful support to a more consumer-driven culture of long-term care.