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Easing the pain of transition
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.9.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Your disabled child has grown up and is about to leave school. His or her world of support is about to end and another start. This article looks at one Southampton parent's stressful experience when responsibility changed from children's to adult services.
Service co-ordination: professionals' views on the role of a multi-agency service co-ordinator for children with disabilities
- Author:
- BEATTIE Anette
- Publisher:
- Handsel Trust
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 36p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This review examines the literature pertaining to disabled children and their families. It also examines coordinating strategies and the role of the service co-ordinator for children with disabilities and other issues concerning inter professional collaboration.
Buying Independence: using direct payments to integrate health and social services
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Publisher:
- National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Shows how disabled people do not make clear distinctions between 'health' and 'social' care. Through direct payments, they are able to control and integrate into their daily routines a wide range of health-related activities, such as physiotherapy and nursing tasks, in ways which offer increased independence and better quality of life, compared with conventional health services. Is extending direct payments to older people and disabled children a shift in the boundary between 'health' and 'social' services? This book explores how direct payments can improve further the integration of services from the perspectives of the users and providers involved.
A resource pack: developing a key worker service for families with a disabled child
- Authors:
- MUKHERJEE Suzanne, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This resource pack offers research-based advice on how to develop and implement a key worker services for families with a disabled child. The pack takes the reader through each phase of the process, with examples of activities and exercises which can assist in planning and decision making for each phase. Issues addressed include: what the services should look like; managing change; how to support the service; and facilitating multi-agency steering groups. The pack is aimed at managers and development workers within education services, health services, social services and voluntary organisations.
Ethical discussion groups as an intervention to improve the climate in interprofessional work with the elderly and disabled
- Authors:
- FORSGARDE Marianne, WESTMAN Berith, NYGREN Lennart
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 14(4), November 2000, pp.351-361.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Due to social policy reforms in Sweden, professionals with a social and a medical education work together. Reported conflicts within municipal elderly and disabled care, related to professional training, sometimes result in a deteriorated work climate. As an attempt to improve the work climate in interprofessional groups, an intervention study was set up in four 'experimental dwellings' where staff participated in systematic ethical group discussions. Work climate was studied before and after the intervention using a questionnaire measuring sense of coherence, job satisfaction, and burnout among the staff. The small observed changes after intervention indicate that the intervention did not lead to the expected improvement of work climate, but might also result from the chosen scales inability to measure complex social processes. The importance of interprofessional discussions about everyday skills and values is stressed.
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.
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.
Young disabled people moving into adulthood
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Although it is a legal requirement that all young people over the age of fourteen with a statement of special educational needs have a transition plan, a third of young people surveyed in one study did not have a plan. Education and social services are often not working well together in transition planing. There is also poor coordination between children and adult social services. Young people who are disabled and in placements out of their local area are particularly likely to experience inadequate transition planning.
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.