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1 online resource |
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Routledge Library Editions: Children and Disability |
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Routledge Library Editions: Children and Disability
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 'Community Care', Specialization and Evaluation: Current Issues in Social Services and Social Work; 'Community care': the growing demand; The debate about specialization; Evaluation and effectiveness; The resource worker project; Chapter 2 'Community Care': The Case of Severely Disabled Children; Research background; Disabled children and their families: the policy context; The resource worker project; Chapter 3 Setting up the Project |
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The resource workers and the interventionThe research design and methods; Meeting the families; Chapter 4 Inputs: the Role of a Specialist Social Worker; Establishing working relationships; The intervention of the resource workers; The resource workers' perspectives on the intervention; Immediate outcomes; Chapter 5 Outcomes: the Parents' Views; 'Consumer' opinion in social work research; The help received from the resource workers; Parents' voices; Retrospective reflections; Chapter 6 Outcome Measures 1: Disability and Day to Day Practical Care; Disability, handicap and health care |
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The personal care of the disabled childGiving extra attention and supervision; Practical problems at home; Getting about outside the home; Chapter 7 Outcome Measures 2: Homes and Gardens; Moving house; Adaptations to the home; Outside the house; Conclusions; Appendix George Jackson; Caroline Barton; Chapter 8 Outcome Measures 3: Education, Leisure and Respite Care; Educational issues; Leaving school and after; Educational equipment and toys; Leisure; Respite care; Chapter 9 Outcome Measures 4: Financial Problems, Welfare Benefits and the Family Fund; Disability benefits; Supplementary benefit |
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Help from the Family FundThe alleviation of financial worries; Chapter 10 Outcome Measures 5: The Impact on Families and Carers; Relationships within the family; Who cares?; The impact on carers; Chapter 11 Conclusions: Issues for Evaluation; The intervention and its outcomes; Interpretation: the research context; The development of evaluative research; Chapter 12 Implementation: Issues for Policy; Recent policy developments; The resource worker project and policy: the development of the key worker role; The key worker role and future policy; Appendix A Briefing the resource workers |
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Appendix B A note on statistical testingReferences; Index |
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Print version record |
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Children with disabilities -- Services for.
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Family social work.
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Social work with children with disabilities.
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Children with disabilities -- Services for -- Great Britain
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Family social work -- Great Britain
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Social work with children with disabilities -- Great Britain
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Children with disabilities -- Services for.
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Family social work.
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Social work with children with disabilities.
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Great Britain.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317360591 |
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9781317360599 |
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