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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779856203321

Autore

Robinson Sally <1969->

Titolo

Preventing the emotional abuse and neglect of people with intellectual disability [[electronic resource] ] : stopping insult and injury / / Sally Robinson ; foreword by Hilary Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013

ISBN

0-85700-472-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownHilary <1949->

Disciplina

362.3

Soggetti

People with mental disabilities - Abuse of - Prevention

People with mental disabilities - Institutional care

People with mental disabilities - Services for

Social work with people with mental disabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Setting the scence -- pt. 2. Stories of lived experience -- pt. 3. Making change and moving forward.

Sommario/riassunto

'There's so many different types of abuse, and it all comes down to the same thing. It's making people nothing. And Fran was nothing. There was never anything nice said about her, everything was negative. And she had to put up with that, and we had to put up with that, until we all sort of believed it, almost.'Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability throws light onto the traumatic experiences faced by people with intellectual disability living in disability accommodation services. Through the narratives of nine people with intellectual disability and t