Promoting Choice and Control in Residential Services for People with Learning Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Finlay, W. M. L.; Walton, C.; Antaki, C.
Titel	Promoting Choice and Control in Residential Services for People with Learning Disabilities
Quelle	In: Disability & Society, 23 (2008) 4, S.349-360 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0968-7599
Schlagwörter	Mental Retardation; Ethnography; Residential Programs; Empowerment; Staff Development; Staff Role; Communication Problems; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geistige Behinderung; Ethnografie; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Personnel development; Personalentwicklung; Kommunikationsbarriere; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper discusses the gap between policy goals and practice in residential services for people with learning disabilities. Drawing on a nine month ethnographic study of three residential services, it outlines a range of obstacles to the promotion of choice and control that were routinely observed in the culture and working practices of the services. Issues discussed include conflicting service values and agendas, inspection regimes, an attention to the bigger decisions in a person's life when empowerment could more quickly and effectively be promoted at the level of everyday practice, problems of communication and interpretation and the pervasiveness of teaching. We offer a range of suggestions as to how these obstacles might be tackled. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10