Hilary Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canterbury Christ Church University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7083-5837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Biopsychosocial vulnerability and parental behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and well-being in first-time mothers and fathers
Early parenthood is shaped by evolving parental behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and well-being embedded within biopsychosocial contexts. In this nationwide longitudinal study, we used latent growth curve modeling to examine how biopsychosocial vulnerability is associated with trajectories of parental experiences among new mothers and fathers during the first 2 years postpartum. Coresiding mothers ( N = 2,994) and fathers ( N = 2,787) across Canada…
The older you get, the less people care about you”
Normative healthy aging frameworks promote later-life wellbeing through the maintenance of functional ability, moralizing autonomy, productivity, and sexual fitness, rendering disability, interdependence, and non-normative sexual lives signs of decline. How, then, do older women with disabilities experience sexual and reproductive health in later life? Drawing on six in-depth interviews with disabled women aged 50 to 63 in Canada during the COVID…
Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities
Tanka
I could have arguedrecipes with his motherover funeralpotatoes or watched him foldmore than his share of gray chairsat a fireside oranyone's baby blessingI could have nudged himwhen we told the story oflaying down weapons of warare you getting this?I could have said, then againhe could have nudged mewhen they spoke of musket fire,a Prophet's proclamationhe could have asked methe same thing after each hymnmarching as to warwith the cross of Je e s…
Thanksgiving in Kindergarten Salt Lake City, Utah, 1996
We grew up in a city named for water we could not drink.Our ancestors walked for miles to finda home that would not burn so easily,then stumbled on salt, which meant preservation.In 1996 we walked to Westbrook Elementarypast neighborhood dogs named Loboand Lamanite music spilling from one-car garages,brass trumpeting on the asphalt.When the teacher gave us feathers to wear on Thanksgiving,I didn't know about the Mountain Meadows Massacre,or Mormo…
Found Poetry
This article maps an emergent qualitative research process of writing found poetry to give voice to a long-term care patient who was slowly losing her physical capabilities to supra nuclear palsy. Through an initial chance encounter, the poem Thank you was written from the patient's scribed journals and then performed in variety of settings for a variety of audiences. First, an academic conference proceeding, followed by a video recording perform…
Pathologic Factors Affecting Colorectal Cancer Survival in a Jamaican Population-the Uhwi Experience
Keeping the Lights On
Large technological systems have many modes of failure – some mundane, others exotic, some with dire consequences. Failures resulting in death and environmental degradation spring easily to mind: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Deepwater Horizon. As a large technological system, the U.S. electric power infrastructure experienced failures during major Northeast blackouts in 1965 and 2003, when large areas were left without power, and the system frequently expe…
Still Learning after Three Studies
This paper traces my journey carrying out three duoethnographic studies. Initially, I used duoethnography as an epistemology or pedagogical tool with teacher candidates. Next its use shifted to an ontological position. When I began each study there was an unresolved tension. By the end I felt a greater sense of connection to the past. The issues that were ever present became clearer and more manageable. There was a reconciliation of the past thro…
From Learning Comes Meaning
Informal mentoring relationships develop out of mutual identification and the fulfillment of career needs. As new faculty, we struggled to balance and decipher all the various facets inherent in the research, service, and teaching responsibilities in our new roles. This paper chronicles an informal comentorship collaboration we struck up to support our efforts as second-career academics in the field of education, seeking to navigate our way throu…
Interprofessional Education – a potential bridge over the commissioner–provider divide
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Not only a crime but a tragedy […] exploring the murder of adults with disabilities by their parents
Purpose This paper seeks to reconcile society's need to apply strong sanctions to parents who are responsible for the murder of a disabled adult while also recognising the stresses present in their lives. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews six cases in which seven disabled adults were killed by a parent in the UK between 1999 and 2009. Findings The review found that these were no ordinary crimes and nor were they motivated by malice, b…
The role of emotion in decision‐making
Purpose This review of the decision‐making literature aims to challenge the rational model of decision‐making upon which the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 is premised. Design/methodology/approach The paper forms part of a larger study commissioned by the Office of the Public Guardian looking into complex cases. Findings The literature supported the study findings that decisions are not made in a linear way and identified the importance of histor…
The process and function of serious case review
Serious case review was neither envisaged nor mandated in the original No Secrets (Department of Health, 2000) although individual authorities have issued protocols in the intervening period. Recognising that there would always be a need to look back and to learn from challenging cases, Kent was one of the first authorities to put in place a mechanism for referral and conduct of these reviews. In this paper, I summarise the way this process is se…
What price theory if you cannot afford the busfare
This paper explores whether normalization theory can provide a useful framework against which to assess the relevance of leisure activity as part of day or residential services to people with learning disabilities. Changing attitudes and patterns of leisure are discussed. Four issues in the normalization principle are examined in detail as they concern the tension between fitting in, and making demands on, society as alternative strategies for ac…
All in this together’
The authors were involved in planning and delivering a multi-agency training programme on the abuse of adults with learning disabilities as part of an ongoing programme of research and development into the sexual abuse of adults with learning disabilities. The training took place after work had been carried out to develop a formal policy on abuse of this client group and focused on issues of investigation and interviewing as an important first st…
Women and Classical Translation in the Eighteenth Century
Women in Germany first began to take up their pens in substantial numbers during the eighteenth century. One area where they apparently did not leave their mark was in the translation of classical literature, despite a wave of interest in the classics in the literary world at large. However, this article sheds new light on women's involvement in this field. It focuses on a handful of women who translated from Greek or Latin, namely Luise Gottsche…
Human resources for health
Action Research in the Classroom
Through action research the question 'What nourishes the spirit of the adolescent in the classroom' was subjected to an inventive strategy. The inquiry centered around student-driven questions inserted into a holistic intrapersonal curriculum. Recognition of the penury of literature in adolescent self and spirituality led the researcher to formulate the question, to organize and implement sessions with engaged students in a fluid way, to create a…
What is financial abuse
In this paper the meaning and use of the term ‘financial abuse’ is explored and new ways of looking at the phenomenon suggested. In particular the paper looks at the interaction between financial abuse and neglect in the context of adults who lack capacity
Links between the Public Guardianship Office and social services departments
This paper explores the links between the PGO and social services in relation to abuse and to local authority management of the finances of vulnerable people. It also reports a small‐scale study of adult protection co‐ordinators in social services departments, which explored the nature of and contact between the two agencies in the context of adult protection inquiries
Adult protection and the Criminal Records Bureau
The Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) offers a ‘one‐stop‐shop’ for checking the suitability of potential employees to work with adults in health and social care settings. This paper argues that an exploration of the rationale for recruitment decision making following the creation of the CRB is timely and necessary
Suspected financial abuse among cases administered by the PGO
The risk of financial abuse is a major concern for the PGO and the Court of Protection. Master Lush has suggested that some 10‐15% of cases brought to the Court involve some element of abuse or impropriety. The study reported here analysed case files identified by PGO staff as those in which abuse was a strong possibility
Autism, Advocates and Law Enforcement Professionals
The response to No Secrets
This article reports the results of a survey of local authorities, which asked about progress in responding to the Department of Health guidance, No Secrets. The findings of the survey suggest that the majority of local authorities are taking action in response to the guidance. However, there is variation in progress with the different components of the framework for the protection of vulnerable adults outlined in No Secrets
An Ordinary Sexual Life?’
This paper explains why the normalisation principle has had so little effect on the sexual options open to people with learning disabilities. It analyses discourses about services and about sexuality and suggests that one implicit role of services is the regulation of sexuality and the creation of sexual boundaries. The paper questions whether there are homogenous sexual values, and challenges the assumption that sexuality is ‘natural’ arguing th…
The role of emotion in decision‐making
Purpose This review of the decision‐making literature aims to challenge the rational model of decision‐making upon which the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 is premised. Design/methodology/approach The paper forms part of a larger study commissioned by the Office of the Public Guardian looking into complex cases. Findings The literature supported the study findings that decisions are not made in a linear way and identified the importance of histor…
The response to No Secrets
This article reports the results of a survey of local authorities, which asked about progress in responding to the Department of Health guidance, No Secrets. The findings of the survey suggest that the majority of local authorities are taking action in response to the guidance. However, there is variation in progress with the different components of the framework for the protection of vulnerable adults outlined in No Secrets
Implementing Adult Protection Policies in Kent and East Sussex
This paper reports the extent and nature of adult protection cases dealt with by two Social Services Departments during a twelve month period in 1995-6, within the framework of newly revised generic policies on abuse of vulnerable adults. The two counties varied in the level of reporting documented and in the number of cases logged for individuals who fall within the main four groups of 'vulnerable adults' covered by the policies. Arguments for c…
Women Caring for People
This paper explores the implications, for women, of the new structures and systems which are being introduced in the ‘Working for patients’ and ‘Caring for people’ legislation. An exploration which focuses on women is urgent, given their predominance as both paid and unpaid workers in, and users of, community care services. The fundamental changes which are being introduced, ostensibly to empower the disadvantaged and give them more choice and in…
Suspected financial abuse among cases administered by the PGO
The risk of financial abuse is a major concern for the PGO and the Court of Protection. Master Lush has suggested that some 10‐15% of cases brought to the Court involve some element of abuse or impropriety. The study reported here analysed case files identified by PGO staff as those in which abuse was a strong possibility
Monitoring adult protection referrals in 10 English local authorities
This paper reports the results of a study of the monitoring of adult protection referrals in 10 local authorities during six months in 1998. The issues are analysed at various levels. The information provides a useful window on the effectiveness of current policies and provides a baseline from which to anticipate the implications for workload and service planning of recent government guidance
The Ethics of Research With Men who Have Learning Disabilities and Abusive Sexual Behaviour
In the wake of the recent awareness of the sexual abuse of people with learning disabilities is the recognition that a small number of men with learning disabilities are themselves sexually abusing. The need to understand the men's behaviour and provide effective responses is pressing yet the search for an ethical course of enquiry appears illusory. The two conflicting dilemmas which make this task so difficult are whether the men's learning disa…
The process and function of serious case review
Serious case review was neither envisaged nor mandated in the original No Secrets (Department of Health, 2000) although individual authorities have issued protocols in the intervening period. Recognising that there would always be a need to look back and to learn from challenging cases, Kent was one of the first authorities to put in place a mechanism for referral and conduct of these reviews. In this paper, I summarise the way this process is se…
System Responses to Initial Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases
The assumption of child abuse and neglect reporting laws is that the welfare protective system will respond to reports with appropriate investigation and delivery of services. Previous research has revealed, however, that actions taken depend largely on the functions of the designated agency receiving the initial report. Police-investigated reports result in higher placement rates than those investigated by child welfare agencies. A common explan…
Found Poetry
This article maps an emergent qualitative research process of writing found poetry to give voice to a long-term care patient who was slowly losing her physical capabilities to supra nuclear palsy. Through an initial chance encounter, the poem Thank you was written from the patient's scribed journals and then performed in variety of settings for a variety of audiences. First, an academic conference proceeding, followed by a video recording perform…
What is financial abuse
In this paper the meaning and use of the term ‘financial abuse’ is explored and new ways of looking at the phenomenon suggested. In particular the paper looks at the interaction between financial abuse and neglect in the context of adults who lack capacity
From Learning Comes Meaning
Informal mentoring relationships develop out of mutual identification and the fulfillment of career needs. As new faculty, we struggled to balance and decipher all the various facets inherent in the research, service, and teaching responsibilities in our new roles. This paper chronicles an informal comentorship collaboration we struck up to support our efforts as second-career academics in the field of education, seeking to navigate our way throu…
Links between the Public Guardianship Office and social services departments
This paper explores the links between the PGO and social services in relation to abuse and to local authority management of the finances of vulnerable people. It also reports a small‐scale study of adult protection co‐ordinators in social services departments, which explored the nature of and contact between the two agencies in the context of adult protection inquiries
Not Such an 'Ordinary' Relationship
This paper brings together some preliminary data on the management of men with learning disabilities who have unacceptable/abusive sexual behaviour patterns with a small pilot study which specifically explores the roles of women support workers in relation to difficult sexual behaviour. A specific focus on the behaviour of men with learning disabilities is justified because of consistent evidence that it is men, rather than women, service users w…
Action Research in the Classroom
Through action research the question 'What nourishes the spirit of the adolescent in the classroom' was subjected to an inventive strategy. The inquiry centered around student-driven questions inserted into a holistic intrapersonal curriculum. Recognition of the penury of literature in adolescent self and spirituality led the researcher to formulate the question, to organize and implement sessions with engaged students in a fluid way, to create a…
Adult protection and the Criminal Records Bureau
The Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) offers a ‘one‐stop‐shop’ for checking the suitability of potential employees to work with adults in health and social care settings. This paper argues that an exploration of the rationale for recruitment decision making following the creation of the CRB is timely and necessary
Adult Protection
This paper considers the emergence of adult protection as a significant issue for health and welfare professionals. A range of definitions and dilemmas are considered alongside a comprehensive review of how abuse is manifested. A brief review of the latest research is followed by principles of good practice
System Responses to Initial Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases
The assumption of child abuse and neglect reporting laws is that the welfare protective system will respond to reports with appropriate investigation and delivery of services. Previous research has revealed, however, that actions taken depend largely on the functions of the designated agency receiving the initial report. Police-investigated reports result in higher placement rates than those investigated by child welfare agencies. A common explan…
Whose ‘Ordinary Life’ Is It Anyway
This paper offers a feminist critique of current community care policy and of the normalisation ideology which underpins it. Drawing on experience in services for people with learning difficulties and people who use mental health services, the authors draw a series of parallels between ‘clients’ and women in our society. They discuss the mechanisms whereby groups of people are accorded second class status and the ways in which such oppression is …
Women Caring for People
This paper explores the implications, for women, of the new structures and systems which are being introduced in the ‘Working for patients’ and ‘Caring for people’ legislation. An exploration which focuses on women is urgent, given their predominance as both paid and unpaid workers in, and users of, community care services. The fundamental changes which are being introduced, ostensibly to empower the disadvantaged and give them more choice and in…
An Ordinary Sexual Life?’
This paper explains why the normalisation principle has had so little effect on the sexual options open to people with learning disabilities. It analyses discourses about services and about sexuality and suggests that one implicit role of services is the regulation of sexuality and the creation of sexual boundaries. The paper questions whether there are homogenous sexual values, and challenges the assumption that sexuality is ‘natural’ arguing th…
Women Caring for People
Women are familiar with the fragmentation of power and responsibility at the heart of the purchaser-provider split; they are, after all, used to servicing the nation’s breadwinners and providing for dependants within a relationship to their own personal ‘purchaser’, whom convention allows to exert emotional, economic and sometimes physical sanctions if their work is not ‘up to scratch’. It is an arrangement which both borrows from, and leans on, …
Not Such an 'Ordinary' Relationship
This paper brings together some preliminary data on the management of men with learning disabilities who have unacceptable/abusive sexual behaviour patterns with a small pilot study which specifically explores the roles of women support workers in relation to difficult sexual behaviour. A specific focus on the behaviour of men with learning disabilities is justified because of consistent evidence that it is men, rather than women, service users w…
The Ethics of Research With Men who Have Learning Disabilities and Abusive Sexual Behaviour
In the wake of the recent awareness of the sexual abuse of people with learning disabilities is the recognition that a small number of men with learning disabilities are themselves sexually abusing. The need to understand the men's behaviour and provide effective responses is pressing yet the search for an ethical course of enquiry appears illusory. The two conflicting dilemmas which make this task so difficult are whether the men's learning disa…
Making the market work for people with learning disabilities
This article identifies the potential of contracting to secure changes in the management and organization of community services for people with learning disabilities. Practical and theoretical arguments are deployed to identify how contract and related market factors can be used to deliver more effective and higher quality services. Possibilities for enhancing the contracting process are examined from a number of perspectives with suggestions for…
Implementing Adult Protection Policies in Kent and East Sussex
This paper reports the extent and nature of adult protection cases dealt with by two Social Services Departments during a twelve month period in 1995-6, within the framework of newly revised generic policies on abuse of vulnerable adults. The two counties varied in the level of reporting documented and in the number of cases logged for individuals who fall within the main four groups of 'vulnerable adults' covered by the policies. Arguments for c…
Adult Protection
This paper considers the emergence of adult protection as a significant issue for health and welfare professionals. A range of definitions and dilemmas are considered alongside a comprehensive review of how abuse is manifested. A brief review of the latest research is followed by principles of good practice
Monitoring adult protection referrals in 10 English local authorities
This paper reports the results of a study of the monitoring of adult protection referrals in 10 local authorities during six months in 1998. The issues are analysed at various levels. The information provides a useful window on the effectiveness of current policies and provides a baseline from which to anticipate the implications for workload and service planning of recent government guidance
Crossing the divide
The registration and inspection of residential care services for vulnerable adults rests with local government but in 2002 responsibility passes to the new Commission for Care Standards. This paper looks at how inspection units understand and respond to adult protection issues, considers how they contribute to multi‐agency adult protection and speculates on how the planned changes will impact on policy and practice
The response to No Secrets
This article reports the results of a survey of local authorities, which asked about progress in responding to the Department of Health guidance, No Secrets. The findings of the survey suggest that the majority of local authorities are taking action in response to the guidance. However, there is variation in progress with the different components of the framework for the protection of vulnerable adults outlined in No Secrets
What is financial abuse
In this paper the meaning and use of the term ‘financial abuse’ is explored and new ways of looking at the phenomenon suggested. In particular the paper looks at the interaction between financial abuse and neglect in the context of adults who lack capacity
Links between the Public Guardianship Office and social services departments
This paper explores the links between the PGO and social services in relation to abuse and to local authority management of the finances of vulnerable people. It also reports a small‐scale study of adult protection co‐ordinators in social services departments, which explored the nature of and contact between the two agencies in the context of adult protection inquiries
Adult protection and the Criminal Records Bureau
The Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) offers a ‘one‐stop‐shop’ for checking the suitability of potential employees to work with adults in health and social care settings. This paper argues that an exploration of the rationale for recruitment decision making following the creation of the CRB is timely and necessary
Suspected financial abuse among cases administered by the PGO
The risk of financial abuse is a major concern for the PGO and the Court of Protection. Master Lush has suggested that some 10‐15% of cases brought to the Court involve some element of abuse or impropriety. The study reported here analysed case files identified by PGO staff as those in which abuse was a strong possibility
Autism, Advocates and Law Enforcement Professionals
Human resources for health
Action Research in the Classroom
Through action research the question 'What nourishes the spirit of the adolescent in the classroom' was subjected to an inventive strategy. The inquiry centered around student-driven questions inserted into a holistic intrapersonal curriculum. Recognition of the penury of literature in adolescent self and spirituality led the researcher to formulate the question, to organize and implement sessions with engaged students in a fluid way, to create a…
Women and Classical Translation in the Eighteenth Century
Women in Germany first began to take up their pens in substantial numbers during the eighteenth century. One area where they apparently did not leave their mark was in the translation of classical literature, despite a wave of interest in the classics in the literary world at large. However, this article sheds new light on women's involvement in this field. It focuses on a handful of women who translated from Greek or Latin, namely Luise Gottsche…
What price theory if you cannot afford the busfare
This paper explores whether normalization theory can provide a useful framework against which to assess the relevance of leisure activity as part of day or residential services to people with learning disabilities. Changing attitudes and patterns of leisure are discussed. Four issues in the normalization principle are examined in detail as they concern the tension between fitting in, and making demands on, society as alternative strategies for ac…
All in this together’
The authors were involved in planning and delivering a multi-agency training programme on the abuse of adults with learning disabilities as part of an ongoing programme of research and development into the sexual abuse of adults with learning disabilities. The training took place after work had been carried out to develop a formal policy on abuse of this client group and focused on issues of investigation and interviewing as an important first st…
The process and function of serious case review
Serious case review was neither envisaged nor mandated in the original No Secrets (Department of Health, 2000) although individual authorities have issued protocols in the intervening period. Recognising that there would always be a need to look back and to learn from challenging cases, Kent was one of the first authorities to put in place a mechanism for referral and conduct of these reviews. In this paper, I summarise the way this process is se…
The role of emotion in decision‐making
Purpose This review of the decision‐making literature aims to challenge the rational model of decision‐making upon which the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 is premised. Design/methodology/approach The paper forms part of a larger study commissioned by the Office of the Public Guardian looking into complex cases. Findings The literature supported the study findings that decisions are not made in a linear way and identified the importance of histor…
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