Monday, May 11, 2015

Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities

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Planning and Support for people with Intellectual Disablities 

Contents:
  • Introduction: Contexts, structures and processes of case management.
  • Case management with people with intellectual disabilities: Purpose, tensions and challenges.
  • Understanding intellectual disabilities.
  • Balancing rights, risk and protection of adults.
  • Walk a day in my shoes: Managing unmet need on a daily basis.
  • Case management in a rights-based environment: Structure, context and roles.
  • Working with other organizations and other service sectors.
  • Working to empower families: Perspective of care managers.
  • A life managed or life lived? A parental view on case management.
  • Taking it personally: Challenging poor and abusive care management practice.
  • Be there for me: Case management in my life.
  • Working things out together: A collaborative approach to supporting parents with intellectual disabilities.
  • Intellectual disability and the complexity of challenging behaviour and mental illness: Some case management suggestions.
  • The important of friendships for young people with intellectual disabilities.
  • Issues of middle age and beyond for people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
  • The role of the case manager in supporting communication.
  • Accessing quality healthcare.
  • Supporting children and their families.
  • Review of evaluative research on case management for people with intellectual disabilities.

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