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Using unconditionally constructive mediation to resolve family-system disputes related to persons with disabilities
- Author:
- MUNRO J. Dale
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 78(6), November 1997, pp.609-616.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Serious family-system conflicts waste valuable resources, cause personal distress, and disrupt efforts to support people with disabilities. Suggests that mediation offers many advantages over adversarial approaches for resolving complicated family-system disputes; and presents unconditionally constructive mediation as a positive and effective model for resolving complex family-system conflicts and for improving planning, case management and support for people with disabilities. Uses a case example to illustrate how this method of mediation can be applied.
Traumatic transitions
- Author:
- HEMINGWAY Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 13.3.96, 1996, pp.42-44.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
People whose lives are suddenly changed by serious injury need psychological and emotional support. The quality of this support can mean a patient is enabled to focus more on ability than disability. The article explains how this can be.
A bereavement model for working with families of handicapped children
- Authors:
- STEWART June, POLLACK Gloria
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 5(3), 1991, pp.241-253.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes a support project for families following the birth of a handicapped child, including the development and application of Le Poidevin's model of adjustment to loss.
Does the covert nature of caring prohibit the development of effective services for young carers?
- Authors:
- BANKS Pauline, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 30(3), August 2002, pp.229-246.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Almost 3 million children in the UK live in households where at least one family member is affected by chronic illness or disability. A proportion of these children will be young carers. This article begins with a brief review of the literature relating to young carers. Particular attention is then paid to the adoption of a caring role, the'hidden' nature of caring including young people's reluctance to discuss their caring, the impact of caring on education, and the location and type of services provided. The findings of a small-scale study carried out in Scotland are presented in order to highlight some of the issues raised in the literature. Discussion focuses on the implications for the field of guidance and counselling.
The disabled child, the family and the professional
- Authors:
- POLLACK Gloria, STEWART June
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 106p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Designed to help professionals improve their understanding of the needs of parents with disabled children and to develop the counselling skills necessary in this field of work. Covers: basic counselling skills; the role of the professional; stages in the counselling process; problems with family relationships; work with fathers; work with siblings; helping with practical issues; and handling the end of the professional/user relationship.
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.
Children with special needs: a guide for parents
- Author:
- WOOLFSON Richard
- Publisher:
- Faber and Faber
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 182p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Offers advice and information on coping with the initial diagnosis, brothers and sisters, self-image, expectations and achievements, play, integration, and education. Focuses throughout on children as individuals. Written mainly for parents, but also useful for professionals working with children with special needs.
User-friendly information for families with disabled children: a guide to good practice
- Authors:
- MITCHELL Wendy, SLOPER Patricia
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 54p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report of a project which worked with parents of disabled children and practitioners to draw up criteria for good information provision. These criteria were then used by parents to judge current examples of information, in order to define a model of good practice. Begins with a discussion of research on families' information needs and current policy. The standards for information developed by project participants are then explained with reference to issues of presentation, content, delivery and organisation. Individual information sources, verbal, written and audio-visual, were then appraised and examples of good practice highlighted.
Treating the changing family: handling normative and unusual events
- Editor:
- HARWAY Michele
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 384p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at contemporary family life and the stresses and problems that changing social and family structures impose. Includes sections on: non-traditional family constellations (including gay and lesbian families); challenges to the family life cycle (including ageing problems and families with adopted children);and the impact of unusual life events on families (including mental health problems, domestic violence, the problems of living in urban areas, HIV, and addictions). Concludes with a section on the role of the clinician. Aimed at family therapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers and mental health professionals.
Media for well-being... videography of videos and films 1989-90
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FILM COUNCIL
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Film Council
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 93p., list of organisations.
- Place of publication:
- London