Valuing people with a learning disability [[electronic resource] /] / Steve Mee

• Autore: Mee Steve
• Pubblicazione: Keswick [England], : M&K Update, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.3
• Soggetto topico: Learning disabled; Learning disabilities; Dignity
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prelims; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The purpose of this book; Chapter 2 The Power of Stories; Chapter 3 Historic Roles; Chapter 4 Metaphor and Attribution; Chapter 5 Impression Management; Chapter 6 Schemas, Social Representationand Stereotypes; Chapter 7 Normalisation; Chapter 8 Social Construction of Disability; Chapter 9 Listening and Talking; Chapter 10 Valuing In Practice; Chapter 11 The Eugenics Era andFollowing Instructions; Chapter 12 How Might We Value Peoplewith a Learning Difficulty?; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Most health and social care service providers claim to 'value' those with a learning disability. Yet there can sometimes be a huge gulf between stated intentions and what happens in everyday practice. In a few cases that have recently hit the headlines, there have even been allegations of systematic abuse. This timely book asks three vital questions: What do we mean by valuing? How does the process of valuing work? What needs to happen to ensure that we value people with a learning disability?Too often, practitioners tend to say 'it's all right in theory but not in the real world'. In thisb
• Titolo autorizzato: Valuing people with a learning disability
• ISBN: 1-280-76926-2; 9786613680037; 1-907830-66-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462433903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II