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Do social workers deny sexual rights?
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Morgan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.5.92, 1992, pp.vi-vii.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers whether the attitudes and moral values held be professionals create more problems than they solve when it comes to dealing with the sexuality of people with disabilities.
Disablism : another form of prejudice
- Author:
- STEVENS A.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 20.4.89, 1989, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Argues that it is time for social workers to critically assess their attitudes towards disabled people and to recognise how disablism affects services.
Social workers' views of parents of children with mental and emotional disabilities
- Authors:
- JOHNSON Harriette C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 79(2), March 1998, pp.173-187.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
In response to concerns expressed by parents of children with emotional and mental disabilities about professionals' attitudes and beliefs, the authors surveyed the views of a sample of clinical social workers. The survey revealed that the views of a substantial minority of social workers were antithetical to a parent-friendly perspective. Discusses the implications.
Social workers' perceptions and practice regarding grandparents in families of children with a development disability
- Authors:
- FINDLER Liora, TAUBMAN-BEN-ARI Oritt
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 84(1), January 2003, pp.86-94.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This study examined Israeli social workers' knowledge and practice in regard to grandparents of children with disabilities. Eighty-one social workers providing services to families of children with disabilities responded to a 31-item questionnaire tapping demographic and professional background, knowledge of structural and functional aspects of grandparents' support, and actual practice with grandparents. The results showed that social workers recognised the significant and stable role grandparents play in the network of parents of children with disabilities. The findings also indicated that social workers believe that while parents need mostly emotional support from grandparents, they actually receive primary instrumental support, which contributes to mothers' adjustment more than it does to fathers' adjustment. However, social workers report rarely involving grandparents in professional activities and many social workers showed no interest in obtaining more professional training in this area.
No sign of harm: issues for disabled children communicating about abuse
- Authors:
- OOSTERHOORN Rebecca, KENDRICK Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 10(4), July 2001, pp.243-253.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article explores the views of professionals working with children using alternative/augmented communication systems on the issues relating to communication about abuse. Interviews were carried out with 20 staff from eight establishments for disabled children across Scotland. It describes the range of alternative/augmented communication systems used and the barriers to communication about abuse. Staff generally accepted the importance of providing the appropriate vocabulary in augmented communication systems, but systems that provide such vocabulary were not widely used. Staff considered that a major difficulty concerned the level of understanding disabled children might have about concepts of abuse. Staff felt that discovery of abuse was more likely to come from them noticing physical signs, behaviour or mood changes than from the child communicating explicitly about abuse. Highlights the need for appropriate training and increased coordination between social work, health and education.
Disabled people find a voice: will it be heard in the move towards community care?
- Author:
- MULLENDER Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 6(1), 1992, pp.5-15.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Outlines the differences in stance between traditional social work practice and the disability movement, arguing that professionals need to come to terms with disabled people's own definitions of disability, as a basis for good practice in the context of community care. Professionals should also offer their support to user-led organisations and become active in facilitating the kind of representation of disabled people which will guarantee them a voice in policy-making.
Taking rights structurally: disability, rights and social worker responses to direct payments
- Author:
- STAINTON Tim
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 32(6), September 2002, pp.751-763.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article examines the link between a justice and rights discourse and disability policy and practice. Specifically, it considers social worker responses to direct payments, a policy which has been linked to a discourse of social justice and rights. The article initially considers the nature of justice and rights, arguing that these can plausibly be seen to be grounded in the idea of autonomy and that a rights or justice based social policy and practice must be grounded in the protection, enhancement and development of the capacity for autonomous action. The article then presents partial findings of a research project, which sampled social workers' views and attitudes towards direct payments in three local authorities. The findings suggest that social workers are aware of the link between direct payments and autonomy and are generally very supportive of the move to a rights based approach to policy and practice as evidenced by programmes such as direct payments. The article concludes that structural constraints limit social workers' ability to fully function from a rights based approach to disability.
Risk factor: nobody wins
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.1.00, 2000, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to Sarah Swallow, a social worker about dealing with a disabled client who misuses alcohol.
Services for disabled children: integrating the perspective of social workers
- Author:
- MIDDLETON Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 3(4), November 1998, pp.239-246.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article addresses questions about the appropriate focus and direction of social work with disabled children, by triangulating parental views with those of social workers. Parents of nine disabled children were interviewed following the introduction of a specialist disability team in an inner city borough, following the implementation of the Children Act 1989. The parents' views reflect confusion and the need for emotional as well as material support, the last framed variously as counselling, advice and someone to listen. Social workers' comments on these findings, revealed a lack of confidence in their own abilities, a lack of clarity in their role and increasing disillusion with the services of their organisations.
Deconstructing a disabling environment in social work education
- Authors:
- JAMES Pauline, THOMAS Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 15(1), 1996, pp.34-45.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper gives an account of a project with two objectives; first, to give greater prominence to social work with visually impaired people on a Diploma in Social Work programme with the establishment of a particular area of practice focusing upon the needs of blind and partially sighted people, and second, to positively attract students with visual disabilities to social work training. Both objectives are rooted in an analysis based upon the social model of disability which asserts that it is society which disables by responding negatively to the needs of people with disabilities.