Working with Disabled People in Policy and Practice: A social model

✍ Scribed by Sally French, John Swain

Publisher: Red Globe Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 223
Series: Interagency Working in Health and Social Care
Edition: 2011
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Part of Palgrave's Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, this book explores the policy and practice which frames work with disabled people. Providing a critical review of the mainstream services available to disabled people, it assesses the successes and failures of interagency working, and offers a model for future practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Boxes and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Modelling Disability and Impairment
The individual model of disability
The social model of disability
Challenges to the social model of disability
Long term conditions
The tragedy model of disability
The affirmative model of disability
Implications for policy and practice
Conclusion
2 The Context: from Segregation to Equal Rights
Words, words, words
Looking back at health and social care
Looking forward to equal rights
Critical reflection
Conclusion
3 Disabled People: Health and Social Care
Disabling policy and practice
Inclusion and exclusion
Mainstreaming policy and practice
Conclusion
4 Residential Care
A brief history of residential care
An oral history of residential care
Living in residential care: more recent experiences
Conclusion
5 Control of Health and Social Care Services by Disabled People
Centres for Independent (integrated) Living (CILs)
Direct payment
Criticisms of direct payment
Individual budgets
Possible problems with individual budgets
Advocacy
Citizen advocacy
Professional advocacy
Self-advocacy
Peer advocacy
Conclusion
6 Towards a Social Model of Inter-agency Working
What is inter-agency working?
What are the barriers to inter-agency working?
Rivalry between professionals
The socialization of professionals
The complexity of the professional system
Limited resources
Professionals as gatekeepers
Government targets and deadlines
The powerlessness of service users
How can we overcome the barriers?
Towards inclusive communication
Training/Education
Participatory and user-led research
Conclusion
7 User Involvement in Services for Disabled People
Why is user involvement necessary?
The development of user involvement
Methods of user involvement
Dismantling barriers to enable good practice
Conclusion
8 Disability and Diversity
The meaning of diversity
Disability, socioeconomic status and inequalities in health and social care
Reducing inequalities in health
Disabled people from ethnic minorities: implications for health and social care
Barriers to health and social care services for disabled people from minority ethnic groups: ways forward
Conclusion
9 Families and ‘Carers’
Services: policy and provision
Financial support
The parent–professional relationship
Networks of support
Transition into adulthood
Disabled parents
What parents want: a wish list
Parental involvement: barriers and strategies
Conclusion
Conclusion
References
Index

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