Active Support: Enabling and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities
Autor Jim Mansell, Julie Beadle-Brownen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2012
Notăm cu interes apariția volumului Active Support, o lucrare ce consolidează modelul de îngrijire bazat pe dovezi menit să transforme rolul persoanelor cu dizabilități intelectuale din receptori pasivi în participanți activi. Considerăm că această ediție aduce o claritate necesară în literatura de specialitate, oferind nu doar fundamentul teoretic, ci și soluții concrete pentru dificultățile întâmpinate de personalul de asistență în viața de zi cu zi. Autorii, Jim Mansell și Julie Beadle-Brown, ambii specialiști recunoscuți de la Tizard Centre, reușesc să echilibreze rigoarea academică cu aplicabilitatea clinică.
Structura cărții urmărește o progresie logică, de la definirea relației de facilitare și organizarea sprijinului oferit de personal, până la leadership-ul de practică și contextul organizațional extins. Ultimele capitole sunt dedicate integrării Active Support cu alte metodologii centrate pe persoană, oferind studii de caz care ilustrează îmbunătățirea calității vieții beneficiarilor. Această abordare continuă temele explorate de Jim Mansell în lucrări precum Group Homes for People with Intellectual Disabilities, unde analiza problemele mediilor rezidențiale, dar oferă aici un cadru de intervenție mult mai specific și structurat.
În comparație cu Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Adults with Intellectual Disabilities de Dr Sarah Tomlinson, care se concentrează pe o intervenție terapeutică specifică (ACT), Active Support are o arie de acoperire mai largă, vizând întreaga filozofie de asistență și interacțiune zilnică. Dacă lucrarea lui Tomlinson este utilă pentru obiective bazate pe valori, volumul de față este esențial pentru organizarea sistemică a îngrijirii. De asemenea, față de Disability Practice de Christine Bigby, care analizează implicațiile socio-politice generale, Active Support este o resursă mult mai tehnică și aplicată, axată pe execuția practică a suportului activ.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1849051119
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Colecția Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Această carte este indispensabilă psihologilor, asistenților sociali și managerilor de servicii de îngrijire care doresc să implementeze un model de asistență validat științific. Cititorul câștigă strategii clare pentru a stimula implicarea persoanelor cu dizabilități severe în activități cotidiene, îmbunătățind astfel relația dintre personal și beneficiari. Este un ghid practic care transformă bunele intenții în rezultate măsurabile prin leadership de practică și organizare eficientă.
Descriere
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.
Recenzii
excellent and accessible book... It provides a concise explanation of active support - meaningful, engaging and fulfilling daily activities by carers providing intensive support - and how to set about providing this.
The book is comprehensive and essentially provides a value base and structure to support service users positively. It will be useful for families, care providers and health and social care practitioners who work or care for people with intellectual disabilities.
This book is drawn from international sources and sits within social policy and social work values of social inclusion, choice, participation, respect and dignity. Its great value is that by drawing on research as to what works in practice then it is both a key source of evidence and a call of action to effect change at different levels... Each chapter manages to discuss and analyse issues and challenges with which we are all familiar. The evidence is used to highlight what works and to recommend best practice at different levels. This is an important book that deserves to be read by students, social workers, team leaders, senior managers, policy makers and inspectorate staff and its recommendations acted upon.
This landmark book is an authoritative text on the organisation of support and methods of direct practice with people with severe intellectual disability. Written by two outstanding academic leaders, it draws together the significant body of research that forms the evidence base for person centred active support. Its unique contribution and thus immense value is the clarity with which this knowledge is translated into a comprehensive guide to every day practice for staff, front line leaders and senior managers. This book is a key source of theory and evidence for students, researchers and policy makers, as well providing practitioners and organisations with a blueprint for action.
Mansell and Beadle-Brown have pulled together, in one place, a readable, practical yet research-based guide to improving supports for people with significant intellectual disabilities. I recommend this concise volume for any service provider or policymaker who supports this population. It is well worth the read.
This is a really helpful book for anyone wishing not only to understand the place of person centred active support in enabling people with complex support needs to exercise control over their own lives, but to implement it effectively. It is meticulously researched and distils experience gained from implementation really well.
In my 35 years of working with people with a disability I have not come across anything as important as Person-Centred Active Support. It is now at the core of almost all the work that I do.
Person Centred Active Support has been an essential core element of what we do for more than 10 years; it takes energy and tenacity to implement and maintain but the difference it makes in people's lives makes it very worthwhile.