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Implementation of an intensive, home-based program for parents with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- RAO Trupti
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Child Welfare, 7(5), 2013, pp.691-706.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article describes retrospective findings from a parenting programme developed in collaboration with a local Department of Social Services for adults with intellectual disabilities to increase parenting skills. Programme intervention consisted of home-based services offered three times a week over the course of four to six months, focusing on a variety of topics including child development, planning/problem solving, and childcare. Post-intervention outcomes are reported for approximately 50 families. Significant increases were found in the percentages of eight of 10 observable parenting skills and in the quality of the home environment. Additional factors of interest noted were characteristics regarding parents with intellectual disabilities. Findings support consideration of wider applications of targeted, home-based services for parents with intellectual disabilities. (Publisher abstract)
Too dependent on services
- Authors:
- WALZ Linda, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.10.01, 2001, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers the case of a woman with learning difficulties unable to accept parenting responsibilities.
Assessment in child care: using and developing frameworks for practice
- Editors:
- CALDER Martin C., HACKETT Simon
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 384
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
- Edition:
- 2nd. ed.
Aimed at frontline workers with responsibility for child protection, safeguarding and family support, the new edition will help in navigating the expanding complexities of child care assessments. It draws on the published literature from many parts of the English-speaking world, and incorporates responses to major developments in the field, with increased emphasis on the importance of addressing risk. It includes completely new material, for example on working with parents with a learning disability. It also incorporates responses to the significant developments in UK legislation and guidance, including: the evolution of the Assessment Framework into the Common Assessment Framework and the Integrated Children's System; the Munro review of child protection; the change of government in 2010; and an eleventh hour concession in the 2013 edition of Working Together, that workers can talk about the reality of what they work with every day - risk. Content also covers: risk and child protection; supervising and managing staff undertaking assessments; assessment of child physical abuse, neglect, emotional abuse, failure to thrive, and sexual abuse; parental alcohol and substance misuse; involving children and young people in assessments; and assessing parenting capacity. (Edited publisher abstract)
The effect of group intervention on the relationships of parents with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- McGRAW S., BALL K., CLARK A.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(4), December 2002, pp.354-366.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Parents with intellectual disabilities frequently feel socially excluded and often become dependent on statutory agencies for support. Group intervention was provided to 12 parents with borderline or mild intellectual disabilities over 14 weeks. The effects of intervention were evaluated by comparing the intervention group with a borderline or mild intellectual disabilities control parent group. Both experimental parent group (EPG) and control parent group (CPG) received home-based teaching programmes during this period. Parents' self-concept and perception of the quality of relationship with their children, partners, family members and professionals were assessed. The results indicate that self-concept improved significantly for the EPG with no observable gains made by the CPG. However, the 'feel good factor' which came from improvements in parents' self-concept did not immediately benefit their children. In addition, the quality of relationship between EPG parents and their children, as well as parents' expectations of their children's capabilities did not improve as a result of group intervention. Nonetheless, follow-up data revealed that group training did result in all of the EPG parents making new friends and other positive social and practical changes taking place within their families. Single parent status and the accumulative effect of multiple group attendance were identified as important factors affecting parents' perception of themselves and the quality of their relationships
Integrating disability content in social work education: a curriculum resource
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, et al
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 214p, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Alexandria, VA
This book defines disability as the interplay of diverse human conditions and environmental barriers to full community inclusion. This view of disability, receives limited attention in social work curricula. Contents include: disability rights; human behaviour and the social environment; developmental disabilities; social and health issues; intervention approaches in working with families who have children; policy issues; research.
The right stuff
- Author:
- SONE Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.3.97, 1997, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at what makes a parent 'good enough' and asks if social workers are too ready with child protection procedures when parents have one of a range of problems, such as learning difficulties, poor mental health or drug misuse.
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.