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Brothers and sisters: a special part of exceptional families
- Authors:
- POWELL Thomas H., GALLAGHER Peggy Ahrenhold
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 311p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Discusses the relationships and problems of siblings where one of them has a disability. Contains a section on helping strategies, including provision of information, counselling, teaching siblings to teach, and special problems at school.
Now you're talking
- Authors:
- OLIVER Mike, ZARB Gerry
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 8.7.93, 1993, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on the establishment and evaluation of a counselling service for disabled people - including Bangladeshi people - in Tower Hamlets. Elements of the evaluation examined include outcomes from counselling, the cost effectiveness of the counselling service.
Counselling parents of children with chronic illness or disability
- Author:
- DAVIS Hilton
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 144p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Aims to help medical staff, other professionals, and carers relate to parents in ways that facilitate their adaptation to their child's illness, via establishing partnerships with parents, exploring with them difficulties encountered in all aspects of their lives, setting goals, establishing problem-solving strategies and evaluating the effects.
Suitability counts: think capability not disability
- Authors:
- EVANS Sara Morgan, HOWARD Kim, comps
- Publisher:
- Suffolk. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 58p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ipswich
Training workbook intended to enable non-specialists working in careers advice and education to use and enhance their existing skills in order to work confidently with people with special needs, including disabled people and people with learning difficulties. Contains sections on: when is a disability a handicap; educational terms and establishments; interviewing users with special needs (including glossary of terms); vocational training, YT and training credits; employment and employment services; liaison with and referral to other agencies; and the role of the special needs careers officer.
My mum needs me: helping children with ill or disabled parents
- Authors:
- SEGAL Julia, SIMKINS John
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 253p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the effects on children of having a parent who is ill or disabled and at ways of offering help. Includes a chapter on the death of a parent.
Introduction to social work and social welfare
- Author:
- ZASTROW Charles
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 687p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
Student text book which uses a social problems approach to social welfare and social work in the United States. Includes chapters on: social work as a profession and career; poverty and public welfare; emotional problems and counselling; family services; sexuality; drug abuse; crime and juvenile delinquency; education and school social work; racism and equal rights; sexism; older people; medical social services; physical and mental disabilities; and social work practice.