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Empowerment social work with physically disabled people
- Author:
- HOLDSWORTH Lisa
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 41p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
An exploration of the potential of empowerment social work to offer a service to physically handicapped people that takes into account their self-defined service needs and their rights to remain in control of their own lives.
Paths to empowerment
- Editors:
- BARNES Marian, WARREN Lorna
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 148p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In two sections. Section one looks at definitions of empowerment, and existing models and practice. Section two discusses issues for research and researchers. Includes illustrations of different, and sometimes conflicting, voices to emerge from within the user movement and from among voluntary and statutory sector allies.
The exclusion of disabled people from positions of power in British voluntary organisations
- Author:
- DRAKE Robert F.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(4), 1994, pp.461-480.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Disabled people are excluded in various ways from a wide range of social privileges, activities and institutions. Voluntary and charitable organisations promote themselves as champions of disabled people in their struggle to access to the ordinary choices and opportunities of everyday life. Reports the findings of a study which demonstrates that in voluntary agencies governed by able-bodied people, disabled people are excluded from positions of power and influence, and they experience the same sorts of barriers and constraints as those with which they are confronted in the wider world.
Power games
- Author:
- ELLIS Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.3.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that professionals must lose their dislike of assessment guidelines if disabled people are to be empowered. A reliance on professional judgment can direct assessment outcomes away from user's needs, and because clients' have little knowledge of services they feel unable to challenge decisions.
Engagement and empowerment, research and relevance: comments on user controlled research
- Authors:
- EVANS Claire, JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 22(2), 2004, pp.5-13.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Based on their shared experiences of engagement in research, from the perspective of a disabled person as a commissioner of research and as a researcher, and a non-disabled person as a researcher and service manager, issues of service user engagement and empowerment in and through research, and how this enriches and makes research more relevant, are explored. Examples are given of how user-led research has had an impact on national local policy and practice.
The ambiguous role of welfare structures in relation to the emergence of activism among disabled people: research evidence from Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- ACHESON Nicholas, WILLIAMSON Arthur
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(1), January 2001, pp.87-102.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The boundary between the disability movement and traditional forms of welfare production, whether in the statutory or voluntary sectors is discussed in this article. Drawing on the resource mobilization paradigm in social movement theory, it discusses the role played by existing welfare structures in the formation of disabled people as activists and in the initial stages of mobilization. The article reports on the findings of interviews with activists in the emerging disability movement in Northern Ireland, a region with a very low level of movement activity. It concludes that in such areas, disabled people often lack the resources to mobilize on their own account and are heavily dependent on formal welfare for the necessary networks and opportunities.
Empowerment of parents of children with disabilities: the effect of community and personal variables
- Authors:
- ITZHAKY Haya, SCHWARTZ Chaya
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 5(1), 2000, pp.21-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article explores empowerment among parents of children with disabilities. Specifically, it deals with how changes in parents' patterns of involvement and participation lead to empowerment. Parents of children with disabilities in Israel who are involved in voluntary organisations for the disabled were surveyed in relation to three components of empowerment: family; services; and community. Four community variables-patterns of activity in organisation, representation of the disabled and their families, participation in decision-making, and sense of belonging to the community-and two personal variables-self-esteem and mastery-were each found to affect at least one of the components of empowerment. The article includes some recommendations for social workers with regard to the empowerment of parents of disabled children.
Disability
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 8, October 1999, pp.70-72.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
User involvement is a much-used term in the disability field. Presents research that shows that the aims of service managers and service users are often still in conflict.
Evaluation of the national user involvement project
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The National User Involvement Project was a four-site development project carried out by the national user consultants working in co-operation with joint commissioners, local organisations of disabled people and users of community services. It aimed to extend to range of service users involved in commissioning decisions to include members of ethnic minorities, older service users and people receiving services following hospital discharge. People with learning difficulties and mental health service users were included in the project. Outlines the findings.
Material world?
- Author:
- REID Harry
- Journal article citation:
- Scope, October 1998, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
People with disabilities have more than just the barriers of the external world to cope with. They have the emotional and psychological issues of their disability and the world's reaction to it to deal with. The author, from the DART Project, asks if organisations dealing with disability are really taking a holistic approach to the needs of disabled people.