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Child checkers
- Author:
- WEBB Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 9.1.92, 1992, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
China's one family-one child policy highlights the values placed on male children and the prejudice against children born with disabilities.
Rehabilitation counselling: approaches in the field of disability
- Authors:
- ROBERTSON Sharon E., BROWN Roy I.
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 322p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: competence acquisition - the role of the professional; applications of theory to rehabilitation counselling practice; a cognitive approach to counselling people with physical disabilities; adaptation and coping strategies in counselling; a transitions perspective on counselling adults with disabilities; counselling family members; counselling people who are unemployed; and counselling people with a hearing disability.
User-involvement: the view from service users
- Authors:
- RAISON Barbara, LUPTON Carol
- Publisher:
- Hampshire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 38p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Winchester
Sets out to identify the experience and views of those service users who had been involved in various aspects of Hampshire SSD's work. Client groups surveyed include older people, users of mental health services, and people with disabilities.
Circles of care and understanding: support programs for fathers of children with special needs
- Author:
- MAY James
- Publisher:
- Association for the Care of Children's Health
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 97p.,illus.
- Place of publication:
- Bethesda, MD
Outlines the background to the setting up of support programmes and how to get started. Goes on to look at leadership and facilitation, organisation and evaluation, stressing throughout the importance of looking at fathers as part of a family unit.
The Children Act 1989 and family support: principles into practice
- Editor:
- GIBBONS Jane
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 201p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Papers from a seminar, together with others specially commissioned, aimed at managers in local authority, health and voluntary services who are responsible for drawing up and implementing policies arising from the Children Act 1989. Contains chapters on: family centres; provisions of support through family projects; partnership with parents of children in need of protection; family support services and children with disabilities; helping parents to manage children's sleep disturbance; and developing family support in local authorities.
The NCH factfile: children in Britain 1992
- Author:
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOME
- Publisher:
- National Children's Home
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 96p.,tables,illus.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains statistical and other information on: population characteristics; family costs; income and poverty; children, housing and homelessness; children and disability; education and health; abuse; addiction; crime; children in care; and parenting and working.
Reading therapy for children: a bibliography for hospital and home
- Editor:
- SCHLENTHER Elizabeth
- Publisher:
- Library Association. Medical, Health and Welfare Libraries Group. Reading Therap
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 117p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Contains listings of reading materials in the following sections: hospital stories; visits to the doctor; the body; health problems and disabilities; minor illness; family relationships; new baby in the family; adoption; divorce and fostering; fears and emotions; night time; anger and rude behaviour; death and dying; playgroup and school; moving house; eating problems; feeling small and tall; and child abuse.