Author: Tim Clement
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843106450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Draws on a unique 3-year action research study that surveyed daily life and residents' experiences. Provides evidence-based strategic and practical suggestions for ways that staff and organisations can improve quality of life for residents. Authors from La Trobe University, Australia.
Author: Amy S. Hewitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996506892
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Jack Levinson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452915113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet community services have not, for the most part, delivered on the promises of rights, self-determination, and integration made more than thirty years ago, and critics predominantly portray group homes simply as settings of social control. Making Life Workis a clear-eyed ethnography of a New York City group home based on more than a year of field research. Jack Levinson shows how the group home needs the knowledgeable and voluntary participation of residents and counselors alike. The group home is an actual workplace for counselors, but for residents group home work involves working on themselves to become more autonomous. Levinson reveals that rather than being seen as the antithesis of freedom, the group home must be understood as representing the fundamental dilemmas between authority and the individual in contemporary liberal societies. No longer inmates but citizens, these people who are presumed—rightly or wrongly—to lack the capacity for freedom actually govern themselves. Levinson, a former group home counselor, demonstrates that the group home depends on the very capacities for independence and individuality it cultivates in the residents. At the same time, he addresses the complex relationship between services and social control in the history of intellectual and developmental disabilities, interrogating broader social service policies and the role of clinical practice in the community.
Author: Kelley Johnson
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 9781846421341
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towards deinstitutionalization as they have been experienced by people with intellectual disabilities: living inside total institutions, moving out, living in the community and moving on to new forms of both institutionalization and community life. Many of the chapters are contributions from people with intellectual disabilities. They are based on a life history approach and give a unique personal account of the lived experiences of institutional life and deinstitutionalization by the people who were subject to it. The life story of Tom Allen (1912-1991) is interspersed throughout the book, providing a powerful testimony of the way institutions and deinstitutionalization have affected one individual over the course of almost a century. Researchers and practitioners will find this book an insightful and accessible reflection on deinstitutionalization, and a source of encouragement for improving the lives of people with intellectual disabilities.
Author: Wolf Wolfensberger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Author: Simo Vehmas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789176351512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Narrowed Lives is an illuminating portrait of what life is like in Finnish group homes where adults who have profound intellectual and multiple disabilities live their lives.
Author: Steven J. Friedman
Publisher: Prodist
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: John W. Jacobson
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Ce document veut réunir les informations sur la recherche et la pratique dans le champs du diagnostic double ou la personne rencontre des difficultés comme la déficience intellectuelle et des problèmes psychiatriques. Orienté vers une approche issue de la communauté et de la vie autonome, ce document analyse les éléments composants la distribution des services résidentiels, le développement de la personnalité, la compétence sociale, l'adaptation sociale et la vie autonome en générale dans la communauté
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Category : Community health services for older people
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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