Active Support
Active Support

Author: Jim Mansell

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0857003003

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Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with more severe disabilities, and is of growing interest to those responsible for providing support and services. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of Active Support and how it can be used in practice, based on the theory and research underpinning the methods involved. They describe how to engage people with intellectual disabilities in meaningful activity as active participants, and look at the communication style needed to foster positive relationships between carers and the people they are supporting. Highlighting the main issues for those trying to put Active Support into practice, they explain what is needed on a day-to-day basis to support the implementation, improvement and maintenance of the approach, along with possible solutions for the difficulties they may encounter. Finally, they look at how to integrate Active Support with other person-centred approaches, drawing on examples from various organisations and individual case studies. The definitive text on Active Support, this book will be essential reading for anyone professionally concerned with the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities, including psychologists, behaviour specialists, social workers, care managers, occupational therapists and inspectors and regulators of services, as well as families.

Person-centred Active Support
Person-centred Active Support

Author: Jim Mansell

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 9781841961316

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This resource provides a complete guide to practicing, organising and implementing person-centred active support. It can be used by managers and trainers working with groups of staff, and by individual staff for their own continuing professional development.

People with Intellectual Disabilities
People with Intellectual Disabilities

Author: Kelley Johnson

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1847420680

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This book takes as its starting point the concept of 'the good life' and the challenge of ensuring people with intellectual disabilities are included in 'the good life.' The book explores the values underpinning current discourses of disability, analyzes their strengths and limitations, and proposes some alternative approaches to theory and practice. It deconstructs key concepts, theories, and practices within the learning disability field in the post institution era, and it identifies the values, strengths, and limits of these approaches. The book explores the boundaries around those included in the category 'disabled,' those on its margins, and those who move in and out of this category. It also proposes some alternative formulations to existing theories and practices, and explores their practical implications for the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. Using evidence from the UK, Australia, Bangladesh, and the Republic of Ireland, People with Intellectual Disabilities bu

Person-Centred Active Support Self-study Guide
Person-Centred Active Support Self-study Guide

Author: Julie Beadle-Brown

Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Limited

Published: 2017-09-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911028758

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"This training pack is designed to provide the learner with knowledge about what active support is, why it is important, what it looks like in practice, and some of the key facts around what is needed for success. It essentially forms a classroom-based training programme in person-centred active support ... The resource includes: PowerPoint presentations for the training. Suggestions for how to deliver the training, including for exercises and activities. Additional videos ... A summary learner's workbook ... A copy of the full self-study guide, as this is essentially the script for the training."--Page 6 of training resource

Achieving Person-Centred Health Systems
Achieving Person-Centred Health Systems

Author: Ellen Nolte

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-08-06

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1108803725

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The idea of person-centred health systems is widely advocated in political and policy declarations to better address health system challenges. A person-centred approach is advocated on political, ethical and instrumental grounds and believed to benefit service users, health professionals and the health system more broadly. However, there is continuing debate about the strategies that are available and effective to promote and implement 'person-centred' approaches. This book brings together the world's leading experts in the field to present the evidence base and analyse current challenges and issues. It examines 'person-centredness' from the different roles people take in health systems, as individual service users, care managers, taxpayers or active citizens. The evidence presented will not only provide invaluable policy advice to practitioners and policymakers working on the design and implementation of person-centred health systems but will also be an excellent resource for academics and graduate students researching health systems in Europe. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Nine Countries
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Nine Countries

Author: Rune Halvorsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1317227468

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Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to be full and active members of society. The policy reforms have aimed to change the balance between citizens’ rights and duties and the opportunities to enjoy choice and autonomy, live in the community and participate in political decision-making processes of importance for one’s life. How do the reforms influence the opportunities to exercise Active Citizenship? This volume presents the findings from the first cross-national comparison of how persons with disabilities reflexively make their way through the world, pursuing their own interests and values. The volume considers how their experiences, views and aspirations regarding participation vary across Europe. Based on retrospective life-course interviews, the volume examines the scope for agency on the part of persons with disabilities, i.e. the extent to which men and women with disabilities are able to make choices and pursue lives they have reasons to value. Drawing on structuration theory and the capability approach, the volume investigates the opportunities for exercising Active Citizenship among men and women in nine European countries. The volume identifies the policy implications of a process-oriented and multi-dimensional approach to Active Citizenship in European disability policy. It will appeal to policymakers and policy officials, as well as to researchers and students of disability studies, comparative social policy, international disability law and qualitative research methods.