Empowerment in Everyday Life

Learning Disability
Herausgeber: Roberts, Gwyneth; Grant, Gordon; Borland, John; Ramcharan, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Individual acts of empowerment practice whether undertaken by service personnel, families or through the efforts of people with learning disabilities themselves, are not sufficient to produce an empowered life. Empowerment in Everyday Life takes a unique 'bottom up' approach to empowerment by starting with an examination of the lives and relationships of people with learning disabilities, their families and friends. From these experiences, questions are then asked about how policy making, service provision and state legislation might be implemented in ways which would maximise self-determination, equality and the fight for citizenship by people with learning disabilities and to provide for an empowered life and lifestyle. The various voices heard in this book provide a spectrum of viewpoints relating to 'empowerment', a concept which has gained much attention, and generated a great deal of debate, in the past decade. The contributors include people with learning disabilities, self advocates, practitioners, academics, and a freelance trainer and consultant on social care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781853023828
• ISBN-10: 1853023825
• Artikelnr.: 22085033

Autorenporträt

Dr Paul Ramcharan is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Research and Development in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Wales, Bangor. Dr Gwyneth Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Wales. Dr Gordon Grant is Reader and Co-director of the Centre for Social Policy Research and Development in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Wales. John Borland is the Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Paul Ramcharan and John Boland. SECTION 1 EMPOWERMENT IN INFORMAL
SETTINGS Chapter 1 - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Down's
Syndrome, but Never Bothered to Ask Anya Souza, independent consultant,
with Paul Ramcharan. Chapter 2 - Empowering and Michael Bayley, University
of Sheffield. Chapter 3 - Shouting the Loudest: Self Advocacy, Power and
Diversity Jan Walmsley, The Open University and Jackie Downer, Lambeth
Accord. Chapter 4 - Voices and Choices: Mapping Entitlements to Friendships
and Community Contacts Paul Ramcharan, Morag McGrath and Gordon Grant.
Chapter 5 - Families and Empowerment Marion Barnes, University of
Sheffield. Empowerment in Informal Settings: The Themes, John Borland and
Paul Ramcharan. SECTION 2 EMPOWERMENT IN FORMAL SETTINGS: Chapter 6 -
Empowerment within Services: A Comfortable Delusion Steve Dowson,
independent consultant. Chapter 7 - Consulting to Involve or Consulting to
Empower? Gordon Grant. Chapter 8 - I'm Stuck Here with my Poxy Star Chart -
Listening to Mentally Disordered Offenders with Learning Disabilities
Margaret Flynn, National Development Team et al. Chapter 9 - Empowerment
and Community Care: Some of the Legal Issues Gwyneth Roberts. Empowerment
in Formal Settings: The Themes John Borland and Paul Ramcharan. SECTION 3
EMPOWERMENT IN DIFFERENT LEGAL AND POLICY CONTEXTS Chapter 10 - Capacity
and Empowerment Gywneth Roberts .Chapter 11 Citizenship and People with
Disabilities in Canada: Towards the Elusive Ideal Marcia Rioux, Michael
Bach and Cameron Crawford, Roeher Institute and University of York. Chapter
12 - Empowerment and the Limitations of Formal Human Services and
Legislation Judith Cockram and Errol Cocks, Edith Cowan University. Chapter
13 - Citizenship, Empowerment and Everyday Life: Ideal and Illusion in the
New Millenium Paul Ramcharan, Gwyneth Roberts, Gordon Grant and John
Borland.