Looks at action on recruitment, training and career progression for disabled social workers and talks to a group of disabled social workers about their treatment in social service departments.
Looks at action on recruitment, training and career progression for disabled social workers and talks to a group of disabled social workers about their treatment in social service departments.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, social services, social workers;
Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, risk, social work methods, social workers, assessment, decision making, direct payments;
Asks what happens when a client's behaviour means home care agencies will not work with him. A social workers explains to the author how she was faced with the problem of whether to admit a man with multiple sclerosis and severe depression to a specialist home, and so compromise his valued independence.
Asks what happens when a client's behaviour means home care agencies will not work with him. A social workers explains to the author how she was faced with the problem of whether to admit a man with multiple sclerosis and severe depression to a specialist home, and so compromise his valued independence.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, rights, risk, social workers, assessment, decision making, ethics;
How a social worker approached a case involving a mother with parenting problems and her twin teenage daughters, one of whom is profoundly disabled while the other exhibits very challenging behaviour.
How a social worker approached a case involving a mother with parenting problems and her twin teenage daughters, one of whom is profoundly disabled while the other exhibits very challenging behaviour.
Subject terms:
mothers, physical disabilities, professional registration, residential care, risk, social workers, vulnerable children, assessment, challenging behaviour, child neglect, child protection, children, families;
Finds out how a social worker in a children with disabilities team in Hackney tackles the difficult issue of whether the needs of a child with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and learning difficulties could be met at home from a vulnerable mother who lacks parenting skills, but nonetheless provides love.
Finds out how a social worker in a children with disabilities team in Hackney tackles the difficult issue of whether the needs of a child with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and learning difficulties could be met at home from a vulnerable mother who lacks parenting skills, but nonetheless provides love.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mothers, needs, parental role, parents, parents with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, risk, social work, social workers, child development, children, decision making, families;
Reports on the realities of handling extreme domestic violence in a multidisciplinary team.
Reports on the realities of handling extreme domestic violence in a multidisciplinary team.
Subject terms:
marriage, marriage breakdown, multidisciplinary services, partners, physical disabilities, police, risk, short break care, social services, social work methods, social workers, violence, visual impairment, adult abuse, attitudes, care management, domestic violence;