Supporting People

Towards a Person-Centred Approach
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84742-762-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

There is widespread agreement that care and support services must change radically if they are to meet the rights and needs of the rapidly growing number of people who require them.

For the first time, Supporting people explores with service users, practitioners, carers and managers what person-centred support means to them, what barriers stand in its way and how these can be overcome. It provides a unique roadmap for the future, offering theoretical insights, practical guidance and highlighting the importance of a participatory approach.

Based on the largest independent UK study of person-centred support and written by an experienced team that includes service users, practitioners and researchers, it demonstrates how change can be made now, and what strategic changes will be needed for person-centred support to have a sustainable future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beresford, Peter

Fleming, Jennie

Glynn, Michael

Bewley, Catherine

Croft, Suzy

Branfield, Fran

Postle, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Shami Chakrabati; Setting the scene for social care; Person-centred support; The funding of social care; The social care workforce; Social care and carers; Institutionalisation; Organisational issues; Social care practice; Service user cameos; Capacity building for support; Access to the mainstream; Participation;Change for person-centred support; Appendix.

Über Autor(innen)

Beresford, Peter
Peter Beresford OBE is Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the user led organisation and network as a long term user of mental health services. He has a longstanding track record of work in the field of participation and citizen involvement as academic, service user, researcher, educator and activist.

Postle, Karen
Karen Postle is a registered social worker and retired social work lecturer. She works as a practice educator for qualifying social workers and as an assessor/supervisor for newly qualified social workers. Karen has also published widely in adult social care.

Peter Beresford OBE is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation at Brunel University and Chair of Shaping Our Lives.

Jennie Fleming is the Director of the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University and a qualified and registered social worker.

Michael Glynn is the Personalisation Programme Manager with Solihull Care Trust.

Catherine Bewley is Director of Values Into Action (VIA) and Specialist Sexual Abuse Caseworker at Galop.

Suzy Croft is a Social Work Team Leader at St John's Hospice in London

Fran Branfield is the Director of Shaping Our Lives.

Karen Postle is a registered social worker who teaches part-time at the Universities of Portsmouth and Southampton.