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Social work with people with learning difficulties : Making a difference. Susan Hunter and Denis Rowley
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunter, Susan.
- Series:
- Social Work in Practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social work with people with mental disabilities--Great Britain.
- Social work with people with mental disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- In the field of learning difficulties there has been a revolution in professional understanding and user aspirations towards delivery of services. Institutional models no longer prevail; language, attitudes and practices have been transformed. Full of up-to-date case studies, practice examples and points for reflection, this exciting textbook explores how to embed this culture shift into mainstream services. It explores theoretical frameworks for working with people with learning difficulties and examines the role of services and the social worker, drawing on person-centred, community-centred and family involvement perspectives. Essential reading for anyone studying social work or nursing people with learning difficulties.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Social work with people with learning difficulties
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One. Context
- 1. Key ideas
- Personhood
- A 'good life'
- Human rights
- Language and labels
- 2. Looking back: what can we learn from the past?
- History repeats itself - The Winterbourne View hospital scandal
- Moving on from institutions and institutional practices
- Containment
- Reform and the deinstitutionalisation agenda
- Co-existence and inclusion: an 'ordinary life'
- Community care, mainstreaming and inclusion
- Choice and risk: striking a balance between autonomy and protection
- Personalisation
- Personalisation, risk and austerity
- 3. Underlying conceptual frameworks
- Normalisation and social role valorisation
- Frameworks for accomplishment
- Social model of disability
- Co-production
- Co-production and community connecting
- Part Two. Transitional points
- 4. Transition to adulthood
- Martha's story
- What we mean by 'transition'
- Policy context
- Contrasting the experience of young people with learning difficulties and their peers
- Ten transition challenges
- 5. Setting up home
- Leaving home and setting up house
- Making a house a home
- Why having a home life is important
- Evolution of different approaches
- Challenge of community living
- Expanding the range of options
- Beyond supported living - fostering community connections
- People with learning difficulties and their families' views of their options
- 6. Getting a job: from occupation to employment
- Evolution of day services - from institutions to supported employment
- All things to all people - the struggle for clarity and consensus on purpose
- Resilience of the day centre model
- Supported employment
- Opportunities and obstacles.
- Influence of person-centred approaches
- Partnership and co-production
- What role for day centres?
- Making a difference
- 7. Becoming a parent
- Experience of the service system
- Partnership for good support
- An entitlement to be parents
- Being 'good enough' parents
- Support and learning to be 'good enough' parents
- 8. Growing older
- Increased longevity and its consequences for services
- Who are these people and where do they live?
- Collaboration between specialist learning disability services and generic elder care services
- Specialist training for staff in both types of setting
- Direct payments and self-directed support: the way forward?
- Clearer strategic direction and priorities
- Listening to the views of older people with learning difficulties themselves
- 9. Capacity, risk and protection
- Capacity
- Risk
- Recognising abuse
- Protection from abuse: safeguarding
- People with a learning disability who are at risk of encountering the criminal justice system
- People with a learning disability who have a mental illness and/or behaviour that challenges services
- People with profound and multiple learning disabilities
- 10. Supporting people withcomplex needs
- Part Three. Conclusion
- 11. Conclusion
- One story, five perspectives
- Some practice reflections
- Risk management
- Keeping an individualised, person-centred and community involvement focus
- Future challenges
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781447312420
- 1447312422
- 9781447320326
- 1447320328
- OCLC:
- 953858761
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