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Special families, special needs
- Authors:
- CROSS Gill, MARKS Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 27.3.96, 1996, pp.38-40.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Community nurses have an important role to play in helping parents with learning disabilities to care for their children successfully. This article explains how.
Supported parenting for people with learning difficulties: lessons from Winconsin
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Representing Children, 9(2), 1996, pp.99-107.
- Publisher:
- National Youth Advocacy Service
Describes the work of the authors who are currently working on an action research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The aim of the project is to develop a local support network for parents with learning difficulties which is based on the principles of advocacy and self help.
Parental competence and parents with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), May 1996, pp.81-86.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Parental adequacy is widely seen as a function of individual parenting skills. This assumptions renders parents with learning difficulties vulnerable to discriminatory treatment in child protection work. A presumption of incompetence leads practitioners to focus on the parents' deficits and intensifies concerns about the welfare of the children. Using case material from a recent study, the authors argue for a wider conception of good-enough parenting that takes into account the external pressures that impact on family functioning.
Parenting in context: policy, practice and the Pollacks: A reply to SchofieLd
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH W.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), May 1996, pp.93-96.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Replies to the article 'Parental competence and the welfare of the child' by Gillian Schofield, in Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), May 1996, pp.87-92. Looks at the case of two parents with learning difficulties to examine the tension that exists between protection and support when working with families and children.
Parental competence and the welfare of the child: issues for those who work with parents and learning difficulties and their children. A response to Booth and Booth
- Author:
- SCHOFIELD Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), May 1996, pp.87-92.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Responds to the article 'Parents with learning difficulties' in Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), May 1996. Argues that the Children Act 1989 requires a focus on the welfare of the child and that any debate about parenting must take this into account. The author argues for an integrated approach to work with parents with learning difficulties and their children, in which the welfare of the children is seen as the proper concern of all parties.
Services for parents with learning difficulties
- Author:
- MURPHY Glynis
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(1), January 1996, pp.29-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Commentary on the changes which have occurred in the provision of services and attitudes towards people with learning disabilities who wish to become parents.
Services for parents with learning disabilities
- Author:
- McGAW Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(1), January 1996, pp.21-28.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Presently there are a few specialist services within the United Kingdom which serve parents with learning disabilities. The services that are available serve small numbers of families in the localities in which they are based. This paper raises some of the issues that are paramount to service delivery throughout the UK. The issues are drawn from the experience of the Special Parenting Service which has provided teaching and support to over 350 families headed by parents with learning disabilities. The intention is to raise awareness amongst purchases and providers of services of the need for a national strategy on training, assessment and service development.
Attachment and loss in child and family social work
- Editor:
- HOWE David
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 174p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Contains chapters on: attachment theory in child and family social work; attachment in child protection assessments - implications for helping; attachment theory, neglect and the concept of parenting skills training - the needs of parents with learning disabilities and their children; attachment reviewed through a cultural sense; the prevalence of childhood trauma in the lives of violent young offenders; maintaining relationships between parents and children who live apart; loss in childhood and paternal imprisonment; psychological parenting and child placement; and care leavers and their babies.