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Fluctuating needs: the Care Act 2014
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 6 minutes 56 seconds
- Place of publication:
- London
Under the Care Act 2014, assessments should reflect more accurately a comprehensive picture of people's needs - including how they change over time. In this film two people, one with mental health needs, the other with a physical disability, talk about their conditions, assessment, how their needs can fluctuate and the impact this has on the level of care and support they need. The film illustrates how the new requirement aims to recognise people as individuals by endorsing a much-needed degree of flexibility and responsive care, as well as offering valuable support for people with mental health and physical health conditions which may vary over time. (Edited publisher abstract)
The international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF), a new tool for social workers
- Author:
- BARROW Frederica H.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 5(1), 2006, pp.65-73.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The World Health Organization (WHO) ratified the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in 2001. This followed a ten year period of international development which shifted emphasis from a system concerned with the consequences of disease to a system concerned with human functionality and health. Disability advocates contributed to this system which has potential as a tool for social work classification and assessment. In this article, background information is provided, the system is briefly described, and guidance is offered regarding training options as a way of introducing it as a new assessment tool for social workers. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Incapacity benefits and the All Work Test: a hands-on guide
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Andy
- Publisher:
- Kent County Council. Social Sevices Department
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 63p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Gravesend
Guide aiming to demystify the All Work Test process, the new assessment system determining whether people whose GP says they are unable to work can continue to receive benefit. Includes sections on: exempt conditions; potentially exempt diagnoses; the All Work Test; the IB 50 questionnaire; mental health problems (including learning difficulties); the medical examination; exceptional circumstances; failing and passing the test; and statistical information.
An unfit test: CAB clients' experience of the medical test for incapacity benefit
- Author:
- WARD Sue
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 78p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report examining the operation of the medical test for incapacity benefit and whether or not it is addressing the concern that some claimants of the benefit it replaced, Invalidity Benefit, were not genuinely incapacitated. Makes recommendations for improving the system of deciding whether a person is fit to work for the purpose of deciding entitlement to benefit.
Assessment of the relationship between parenting stress and a child's ability to functionally communicate
- Authors:
- ELLO Linda M., DONOVAN Sandra J.
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 15(6), November 2005, pp.531-544.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Using a two-group, cross-sectional survey design, this American study explored the relationship between parenting stress and a child’s ability to functionally communicate within families who participated in an early intervention developmental disability programme with respect to total stress as well as domain-specific stress. In addition, this study described how this relationship differed with respect to key demographic characteristics. Sixty four parents were included in the study. The findings suggest that a child’s ability to functionally communicate does negatively relate to the level of parenting stress in the parent-child subsystem. Implications for both social work practice and policy are presented.
Post-traumatic stress and disability
- Authors:
- NEAL Leigh A., GREEN Gillian, TURNER Mark A.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 184(3), March 2004, pp.247-250.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Post-traumatic stress is thought to account for significant disability. It is also known to be highly comorbid with other psychiatric conditions such as depression and alcohol dependence. The aim was to determine the relationship between post-traumatic stress, depression, alcohol dependence and disability. Seventy armed services personnel were assessed for DSM–IV diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and alcohol dependence, and with continuous measures of symptoms of post-traumatic stress, depression and alcohol dependence following a traumatic event. These variables, as predictors of disability (using the Sheehan Disability Scale), were analysed using multivariate analysis of variance, analysis of covariance and multiple regression backward elimination models. No significant interaction was found for the diagnostic variables even after controlling for the continuous symptom measures. In the regression models, symptoms of depression were a significant predictor of total disability (R2=0.39). Symptoms of alcohol dependence and post-traumatic stress did not significantly predict disability. Since post-traumatic stress was not found to be associated with disability, its clinical importance may be questionable.
Unmet need in community care: an analysis of policy and literature on need and unmet need, and a study of practitioners' concepts of unmet need
- Authors:
- KEDDIE David, BAUMANN Matthew
- Publisher:
- Dorset. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dorchester
Report looking at the difficulties in recording unmet need, and at the key characteristics of unmet need, focusing on Dorset. Defines need and unmet need; outlines research methods; and presents summaries of findings for disabled people, older people, people with learning difficulties, people with mental health problems, and people with sensory impairments.
Community care: rights to services
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, October 1998, pp.144-145.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
In a brief article written from the perspective of a service user, the Legal Services Agency sets out rights to community care services in Scotland.
No place like home
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 28, Autumn 1997, pp.19-21.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
A wide-ranging review of research reveals a damaging mismatch between policies on community care and housing. The author examines the impact the lack of a coherent approach is having on the efforts of people with disabilities or mental health problems to lead more independent lives.
Housing homeless people with high care needs
- Author:
- CHAR
- Publisher:
- CHAR
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 22p., diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on a conference which addressed growing concern at the high care needs of users of DSS Resettlement Units.