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Succeeding against the odds
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.1.00, 2000, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to two disabled social workers about the battle to complete their training and find work.
Knowledge, tasks and strategies for teaching about persons with disabilities: implications for social work education
- Author:
- PARDECK T. John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 1(2), 2002, pp.53-72.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Persons with disabilities are seen as distinct and insular minority group within the United States. Given the fact that social workers offer critical social services to this group, it is important for social work programmes to offer meaningful curriculum content on persons with disabilities. This article presents key issues that social work educators should find useful for teaching about persons with disabilities. Specifically, a discussion is offered on the disability civil rights movement, the culture of disability, models for defining disability, knowledge areas on disability issues, teaching masks and strategies for focusing on persons with disabilities.
Disability issues: developing anti-discriminatory practice
- Author:
- STEVENS Andy
- Publisher:
- Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 28p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Notes from a working group of people with expertise in disability, giving guidance on disability issues to DipSW programme providers.
The role of professional education in promoting the dignity of older people
- Author:
- ASKHAM Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(2), July 2005, pp.10-16.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This paper considers the education of social and health care professionals who work with and care for older people. It asks whether education can promote the dignity of older people, how this may be done, what factors may ease or impede the promotion of dignity within professional education, and what part eduation plays alongside other influences on care practices. Beginning with consideration of research on the nature of professional education, the paper reviews principles of professional education, cultures and methods of teaching and learning and processes of practical apprenticeship. The paper argues that there are a number of challenges to the promotion of dignity within professional education, for example, inconsistencies in development of professional values, curriculum contradictions such as those between education for management and for direct care of older people, the balance between theory and practice and education for practice under changing real-world conditions.
Infusing content on older people with developmental disabilities into the curriculum
- Author:
- KROPF Nancy P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Education, 32(2), Summer 1996, pp.215-226.
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
Although older people with developmental disabilities (OPDD) are living longer than before and appearing more often as clients of social workers, this population has not been included in the growing effort to prepare social work students in the USA for practice with older clients. Explores the issues unique to OPDD and their families.
Deconstructing a disabling environment in social work education
- Authors:
- JAMES Pauline, THOMAS Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 15(1), 1996, pp.34-45.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper gives an account of a project with two objectives; first, to give greater prominence to social work with visually impaired people on a Diploma in Social Work programme with the establishment of a particular area of practice focusing upon the needs of blind and partially sighted people, and second, to positively attract students with visual disabilities to social work training. Both objectives are rooted in an analysis based upon the social model of disability which asserts that it is society which disables by responding negatively to the needs of people with disabilities.
Human services in the information age
- Editors:
- RAFFERTY Jackie, STEYAERT Jan, COLOMBI David
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 460p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
A collection of papers which look at innovation in human service practice and thinking, using information technology. The articles in this publication has also been published as the journal 'Computers in Human Services', volume 12, Numbers 1/2/3/4, 1995. Includes papers on social work education, disability issues, assessment and provision of services to clients and information systems at an organisational level.
Humanistic approaches to health care: focus on social work
- Editor:
- BERKOWITZ Norma
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Looks at social work practice in health care in the United States and internationally. Stresses the caring and humanising role of the social worker when working with those who have health problems. Includes chapters on: alcohol abuse; social work practice in hospitals; oncology social work and palliative care in the United States; primary health care and its relation to generalist practice and to public health; social work and family planning in Russia; HIV and AIDS; community mental health services in Slovenia; social work practice with refugee populations in Hungary; disabled people; empowerment; and preparing social workers for practice in health care.
Practitioner social work research in action
- Editors:
- BROAD Bob, FLETCHER Colin
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 194p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains research findings, as well as accounts of the development and adaptation of relevant research methods. Chapters are grouped into 4 types of practitioner research: investigation; appraisal; innovation; and state of the art reviews. Includes papers on: placing people with learning difficulties in employment; emergency social service duty systems; women in social services management; perceptions of a children's observation and assessment centre; problem drinkers on probation; dealing with clients with mental health problems; assessment of user needs; applying life history work; recognising elder abuse; the tutorial system in social work education; the adoption of children with learning difficulties; and an agenda for practitioner research.