This text offers an introduction to social work with children and young people who are looked after away from home. The book explains the context in which children are looked after, the range of services available, and the research evidence, laying the groundwork for developing good practice skills. It emphasises the importance of listening to children and to issues of disability and ethnicity.
This text offers an introduction to social work with children and young people who are looked after away from home. The book explains the context in which children are looked after, the range of services available, and the research evidence, laying the groundwork for developing good practice skills. It emphasises the importance of listening to children and to issues of disability and ethnicity.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, looked after children, physical disabilities, social work, young people, ethnicity;
Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(3), 2004, pp.39-51.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Place of publication:
Philadelphia, USA
The last three decades have produced societal changes for people with disabilities. Legislative mandates and legal decisions led to increased access and made discrimination illegal. Institutions that warehoused people with disabilities have closed. Children and youth with disabilities now have greater opportunities to attend mainstream schools and otherwise participate in their communities. Have the sweeping changes affected the self-perception of youth with disabilities? Ninety youth with disabilities provided information for this article about their emotional well being and their beliefs about living with a disability. Overall, youth in the study reported that they were happy with themselves and their lives, helping dispel myths that life with a disability is burdensome. Research implications and suggestions for further study are provided. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
The last three decades have produced societal changes for people with disabilities. Legislative mandates and legal decisions led to increased access and made discrimination illegal. Institutions that warehoused people with disabilities have closed. Children and youth with disabilities now have greater opportunities to attend mainstream schools and otherwise participate in their communities. Have the sweeping changes affected the self-perception of youth with disabilities? Ninety youth with disabilities provided information for this article about their emotional well being and their beliefs about living with a disability. Overall, youth in the study reported that they were happy with themselves and their lives, helping dispel myths that life with a disability is burdensome. Research implications and suggestions for further study are provided. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Subject terms:
institutional discrimination, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, quality of life, self-concept, self-esteem, social work, user views, young people;
Health and Social Work, 26(4), November 2001, pp.269-276.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
This study explores the psychological and social effects of becoming deaf as an adolescent or adult and the adequacy of rehabilitation services offered to such individuals. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a sample of eight deafened adults in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The results indicated that medical interventions were relied on exclusively as rehabilitation services for the deafened adults. None of the study participants were referred to individual, family, or group counseling by their physicians or hearing health services providers, despite the many negative effects of becoming deaf that participants described. Concludes that the rehabilitation systems for adventitious deafness needs the involvement of counselors and social workers to better ensure that the psychosocial needs of clients are addressed.
This study explores the psychological and social effects of becoming deaf as an adolescent or adult and the adequacy of rehabilitation services offered to such individuals. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a sample of eight deafened adults in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The results indicated that medical interventions were relied on exclusively as rehabilitation services for the deafened adults. None of the study participants were referred to individual, family, or group counseling by their physicians or hearing health services providers, despite the many negative effects of becoming deaf that participants described. Concludes that the rehabilitation systems for adventitious deafness needs the involvement of counselors and social workers to better ensure that the psychosocial needs of clients are addressed.
Subject terms:
intervention, needs, physical disabilities, rehabilitation, social work, social care provision, traumas, young people, adults, health care, hearing impairment;
immigrants, homeless people, homelessness, housing, inner cities, learning disabilities, legal aid, local authorities, local government, local government finance, mental health problems, NHS, mothers, offenders, older people, physical disabilities, probation, poverty, pre-school children, punishment, social services, social work, social care provision, urban areas, welfare state, young people, after care, alcohol misuse, benefits, central government, children, community health care, drug misuse, education, employment, family planning, financing, Gypsies, health care;