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The Team around the child: multi-agency service coordination for children with complex needs and their families; a manual for service development
- Author:
- LIMBRICK Peter
- Publisher:
- Interconnections
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 39p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The increasing number of children who have multiple and complex disabilities has highlighted the need for new systems of service provision in which health, education and social services and the voluntary sector join together to offer the child and the family a coordinated approach. Although this need is recognised by all tiers of government the call for coordination needs to be accompanied by more practical suggestions as to how to achieve it.
Interdisciplinary clinical assessment of young children with developmental disabilities
- Editor:
- GURALNICK Michael J.
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 486p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Contains chapters on: young children with possible hearing loss; assessing language and communicative development; neurodevelopment; the nursing role within the interdisciplinary team; nutrition assessment; occupational therapy assessment; pediatric physiotherapy; psychological assessment; and the role of social work. Includes case studies on: an infant at increased risk; a child with Downs syndrome; an infant with phenylketonuria; a child with autism spectrum disorder; a child with fetal alcohol syndrome; a child with Prader-Willi syndrome; and a child with fragile X syndrome. The book concludes with a section on international perspectives, looking at Russia, Italy and Sweden.
A joint health and social services initiative for children with disabilities (in) British Journal of Community Nursing, 5(2), 2000, pp. 87-91
- Authors:
- CAAN Woody, et al
- Publisher:
- British Journal of Community Nursing, 5(2), 2000, pp. 87-91
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 5p.,bibliog.
The children's disability team in Cambridge provides an integrated health and social care service for children with disabilities and their families. The team uses a multidisciplinary and multiagency teamwork approach to care provision. The effectiveness of the team was evaluated where all the 'subjects' were active participants in defining and delivering the evaluation. Particular issues in supervision emerged from the findings.
Changing practice in health and social care
- Editors:
- DAVIES Celia, FINLAY Linda, BULLMAN Anne
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 400p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers exploring current challenges facing practitioners across a broad spectrum of the caring professions. Includes chapters on: reshaping welfare; the public administration model of welfare delivery; community care in the 1990s; changes in maternity policy; human behaviour and social policy; theory and practice in health and social care; applying reflective practice; reflection and reflective practice; requirements of a caregiver; social work values; anti oppressive theory and practice in social work; working with diversity; keys to collaboration; collaboration and conflict within the treatment team; using psychotherapeutic concepts to understand team conflict; the missing link in quality assurance for disabled people; developing the role of user involvement in the UK; the role of women support staff in relation to men with learning difficulties who have difficult sexual behaviour; care costs; confidentiality, accountability and the boundaries of client worker relationships; obstacles to medical audit; the accreditation experience; the resettlement of people with severe learning difficulties; the creative work of care package purchasing; voluntary sector boards in a changing public policy environment; professional practice in social work and health care; a new social basis for welfare; and user voice, interprofessionalism and postmodernity.