Tim Booth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3929731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Booth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Booth |
| SIGNATURE | BOOTH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Parental adequacy, parenting failure and parents with learning difficulties
The incidence of parenting failure among people with learning difficulties is widely presumed to be high although existing research is characterized by a number of methodological shortcomings. Drawing on material from an in-depth study of people with learning difficulties, this paper shows that the three variables commonly used for assessing parental inadequacy — child care problems within the family, the admission of a child into care and the te…
Temporal Discrimination and Parents with Learning Difficulties in the Child Protection System
Journal Article Temporal Discrimination and Parents with Learning Difficulties in the Child Protection System Get access Tim Booth, Tim Booth Tim Booth is affiliated to the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield, David McConnell to the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney and Wendy Booth to the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. Correspondence to Professor Tim Booth, Dep…
In the Frame
This paper presents the results of a photovoice project involving mothers with learning difficulties. Photovoice is a technique that challenges the established politics of representation by putting people in charge of how they document their own lives. The authors describe how the project was carried out and the problems they encountered. Analysis of the content of the mothers' photo albums in the context of their own personal stories throws ligh…
Adult Children of Parents with Learning Difficulties
This paper reports on a study of now-adult children who grew up in families headed by a parent or parents with learning difficulties. The study set out to use narrative techniques to capture something of their experience through the stories they told about their past and present lives. Narrative researchers invariably find themselves trapped between the richness of their material and the space for writing it up. This paper addresses this conundru…
Parents Together
This paper describes the work of Parents Together, a pioneering action research project that set out to support parents with learning difficulties in ways that were non-stigmatising, non-intrusive and responsive to their perceptions of their own needs. Based on an explicit model of parenting and social support, Parents Together used an advocacy approach to challenge discriminatory views of parents' competence and to lighten the load on families b…
Parental competence and parents with learning difficulties
Parental adequacy is widely seen as a function of individual parenting skills. This assumption renders parents with learning difficulties vulnerable to discriminatory treatment in child protection work. A presumption of incompetence leads practitioners to focus on the parents’ deficits and intensifies concerns about the welfare of the children. Using case material from a recent study, the authors argue for a wider conception of good‐enough parent…
Parenting in context
Sounds of Silence
This article addresses the challenge of using narrative methods with people who have learning difficulties. Such informants present four particular interview problems: inarticulateness; unresponsiveness; a concrete frame of reference; and difficulties with the concept of time. The authors focus on the first two of these problems and argue that neither of them constitutes an insuperable barrier to people telling their story. Drawing on detailed in…
The use of depth interviewing with vulnerable subjects
Accentuate the Positive
This paper uses case material from a research study of parents with learning difficulties to show why parental competence can only be assessed in the context of people's lives and upbringing. Drawing on the ideas of futures planning, a distinction is made between a ‘deficiency perspective’ and a ‘capacity perspective’ on personal development. These two perspectives are applied to the analysis of the personal profile of a parent with learning diff…
Parenting with Learning Difficulties
Parents with learning difficulties form an underserved needs group whose numbers are steadily increasing and are likely to continue to do so as a result of deinstitutionalization, community care and the acceptance of ‘ordinary life’ principles as a basis for service provision. This article reviews the research literature on parenting by people with learning difficulties in order to draw out the lessons for practitioners and to assist them in deve…
Social Indicators and the Mondale Initiative
The legislative highpoint of the social indicators movement in the United States was marked by U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale's persistent attempts over the period of 1967 to 1973 to enact proposals for the establishment of a Council of Social Advisers and the development of a national system of social reporting. Mondale argued that, by providing an independent accounting of the social state of the nation, a system of social indicators would grea…
Researching Policy Research
This article addresses the problems of exploring the use of research in the policy process. Measuring the impact or outcomes of policy research raises complex methodological and conceptual issues. How the task is approached and what measures are used depend, for example, on how the nature of the policy-making process is conceived, on what functions research is presumed to play in the making of policy, and on the way in which the relationship betw…
Transition Shock and the Relocation of People from Mental Handicap Hospitals and Hostels
The process of deinstitutionalisation has been gathering momentum in Britain and the United States since the mid‐1970s. A discussion of these trends provides the background to an examination of “transition shock” as it affects people relocated from mental handicap institutions. The paper explores the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of transition shock and links them to the findings of a follow‐up study of the behavioural consequences of …
Moving Out
This paper presents some of the findings from the Kirklees Relocation Project, an evaluation of a local community care programme for people leaving long-stay mental handicap hospitals and social services hostels. It concentrates on the views of movers interviewed before and after the move using an innovative ‘visual game’ technique. The study confirms that given the opportunity to make an informed choice the movers would almost always opt for the…
Stepping out
Life in the community as experienced by men and women who have moved out from mental handicap hostels, with views from their families and the staff who support them. Emily "Oh, it's great, lovely, better than the hostel, really it is love. You can do your work on a morning and then go out when you like. You couldn't up there love, you'd got to do as you were told. I was never out of that office up there. I was always in bother
Dependency in Residential Homes for the Elderly
Whatever Happened to Laps
Levels of dependency in local authority homes for the elderly
Objectives To describe current co-cyprindiol prescribing in a large, rural general practice in England. To specifically investigate whether co-cyprindiol is prescribed within its license and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) guidelines. To investigate the effect of a simple, low-cost intervention on the number and appropriateness of co-cyprindiol prescriptions. Methods The computerised medical record system in a 17 435 pa…
Finding alternatives to residential care—the problem of innovation in the personal social services
Sounds of Silence
This article addresses the challenge of using narrative methods with people who have learning difficulties. Such informants present four particular interview problems: inarticulateness; unresponsiveness; a concrete frame of reference; and difficulties with the concept of time. The authors focus on the first two of these problems and argue that neither of them constitutes an insuperable barrier to people telling their story. Drawing on detailed in…
In the Frame
This paper presents the results of a photovoice project involving mothers with learning difficulties. Photovoice is a technique that challenges the established politics of representation by putting people in charge of how they document their own lives. The authors describe how the project was carried out and the problems they encountered. Analysis of the content of the mothers' photo albums in the context of their own personal stories throws ligh…
The use of depth interviewing with vulnerable subjects
Finding alternatives to residential care—the problem of innovation in the personal social services
Parents Together
This paper describes the work of Parents Together, a pioneering action research project that set out to support parents with learning difficulties in ways that were non-stigmatising, non-intrusive and responsive to their perceptions of their own needs. Based on an explicit model of parenting and social support, Parents Together used an advocacy approach to challenge discriminatory views of parents' competence and to lighten the load on families b…
Temporal Discrimination and Parents with Learning Difficulties in the Child Protection System
Journal Article Temporal Discrimination and Parents with Learning Difficulties in the Child Protection System Get access Tim Booth, Tim Booth Tim Booth is affiliated to the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield, David McConnell to the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney and Wendy Booth to the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. Correspondence to Professor Tim Booth, Dep…
Parenting with Learning Difficulties
Parents with learning difficulties form an underserved needs group whose numbers are steadily increasing and are likely to continue to do so as a result of deinstitutionalization, community care and the acceptance of ‘ordinary life’ principles as a basis for service provision. This article reviews the research literature on parenting by people with learning difficulties in order to draw out the lessons for practitioners and to assist them in deve…
Parental competence and parents with learning difficulties
Parental adequacy is widely seen as a function of individual parenting skills. This assumption renders parents with learning difficulties vulnerable to discriminatory treatment in child protection work. A presumption of incompetence leads practitioners to focus on the parents’ deficits and intensifies concerns about the welfare of the children. Using case material from a recent study, the authors argue for a wider conception of good‐enough parent…
Researching Policy Research
This article addresses the problems of exploring the use of research in the policy process. Measuring the impact or outcomes of policy research raises complex methodological and conceptual issues. How the task is approached and what measures are used depend, for example, on how the nature of the policy-making process is conceived, on what functions research is presumed to play in the making of policy, and on the way in which the relationship betw…
Levels of dependency in local authority homes for the elderly
Objectives To describe current co-cyprindiol prescribing in a large, rural general practice in England. To specifically investigate whether co-cyprindiol is prescribed within its license and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) guidelines. To investigate the effect of a simple, low-cost intervention on the number and appropriateness of co-cyprindiol prescriptions. Methods The computerised medical record system in a 17 435 pa…
Social Indicators and the Mondale Initiative
The legislative highpoint of the social indicators movement in the United States was marked by U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale's persistent attempts over the period of 1967 to 1973 to enact proposals for the establishment of a Council of Social Advisers and the development of a national system of social reporting. Mondale argued that, by providing an independent accounting of the social state of the nation, a system of social indicators would grea…
Parental adequacy, parenting failure and parents with learning difficulties
The incidence of parenting failure among people with learning difficulties is widely presumed to be high although existing research is characterized by a number of methodological shortcomings. Drawing on material from an in-depth study of people with learning difficulties, this paper shows that the three variables commonly used for assessing parental inadequacy — child care problems within the family, the admission of a child into care and the te…
Parenting in context
Dependency in Residential Homes for the Elderly
Finding alternatives to residential care—the problem of innovation in the personal social services
Levels of dependency in local authority homes for the elderly
Objectives To describe current co-cyprindiol prescribing in a large, rural general practice in England. To specifically investigate whether co-cyprindiol is prescribed within its license and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) guidelines. To investigate the effect of a simple, low-cost intervention on the number and appropriateness of co-cyprindiol prescriptions. Methods The computerised medical record system in a 17 435 pa…
Dependency in Residential Homes for the Elderly
Whatever Happened to Laps
Stepping out
Life in the community as experienced by men and women who have moved out from mental handicap hostels, with views from their families and the staff who support them. Emily "Oh, it's great, lovely, better than the hostel, really it is love. You can do your work on a morning and then go out when you like. You couldn't up there love, you'd got to do as you were told. I was never out of that office up there. I was always in bother
Transition Shock and the Relocation of People from Mental Handicap Hospitals and Hostels
The process of deinstitutionalisation has been gathering momentum in Britain and the United States since the mid‐1970s. A discussion of these trends provides the background to an examination of “transition shock” as it affects people relocated from mental handicap institutions. The paper explores the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of transition shock and links them to the findings of a follow‐up study of the behavioural consequences of …
Moving Out
This paper presents some of the findings from the Kirklees Relocation Project, an evaluation of a local community care programme for people leaving long-stay mental handicap hospitals and social services hostels. It concentrates on the views of movers interviewed before and after the move using an innovative ‘visual game’ technique. The study confirms that given the opportunity to make an informed choice the movers would almost always opt for the…
Researching Policy Research
This article addresses the problems of exploring the use of research in the policy process. Measuring the impact or outcomes of policy research raises complex methodological and conceptual issues. How the task is approached and what measures are used depend, for example, on how the nature of the policy-making process is conceived, on what functions research is presumed to play in the making of policy, and on the way in which the relationship betw…
Social Indicators and the Mondale Initiative
The legislative highpoint of the social indicators movement in the United States was marked by U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale's persistent attempts over the period of 1967 to 1973 to enact proposals for the establishment of a Council of Social Advisers and the development of a national system of social reporting. Mondale argued that, by providing an independent accounting of the social state of the nation, a system of social indicators would grea…
Accentuate the Positive
This paper uses case material from a research study of parents with learning difficulties to show why parental competence can only be assessed in the context of people's lives and upbringing. Drawing on the ideas of futures planning, a distinction is made between a ‘deficiency perspective’ and a ‘capacity perspective’ on personal development. These two perspectives are applied to the analysis of the personal profile of a parent with learning diff…
Parenting with Learning Difficulties
Parents with learning difficulties form an underserved needs group whose numbers are steadily increasing and are likely to continue to do so as a result of deinstitutionalization, community care and the acceptance of ‘ordinary life’ principles as a basis for service provision. This article reviews the research literature on parenting by people with learning difficulties in order to draw out the lessons for practitioners and to assist them in deve…
The use of depth interviewing with vulnerable subjects
Parental competence and parents with learning difficulties
Parental adequacy is widely seen as a function of individual parenting skills. This assumption renders parents with learning difficulties vulnerable to discriminatory treatment in child protection work. A presumption of incompetence leads practitioners to focus on the parents’ deficits and intensifies concerns about the welfare of the children. Using case material from a recent study, the authors argue for a wider conception of good‐enough parent…
Parenting in context
Sounds of Silence
This article addresses the challenge of using narrative methods with people who have learning difficulties. Such informants present four particular interview problems: inarticulateness; unresponsiveness; a concrete frame of reference; and difficulties with the concept of time. The authors focus on the first two of these problems and argue that neither of them constitutes an insuperable barrier to people telling their story. Drawing on detailed in…
Adult Children of Parents with Learning Difficulties
This paper reports on a study of now-adult children who grew up in families headed by a parent or parents with learning difficulties. The study set out to use narrative techniques to capture something of their experience through the stories they told about their past and present lives. Narrative researchers invariably find themselves trapped between the richness of their material and the space for writing it up. This paper addresses this conundru…
Parents Together
This paper describes the work of Parents Together, a pioneering action research project that set out to support parents with learning difficulties in ways that were non-stigmatising, non-intrusive and responsive to their perceptions of their own needs. Based on an explicit model of parenting and social support, Parents Together used an advocacy approach to challenge discriminatory views of parents' competence and to lighten the load on families b…
In the Frame
This paper presents the results of a photovoice project involving mothers with learning difficulties. Photovoice is a technique that challenges the established politics of representation by putting people in charge of how they document their own lives. The authors describe how the project was carried out and the problems they encountered. Analysis of the content of the mothers' photo albums in the context of their own personal stories throws ligh…
Temporal Discrimination and Parents with Learning Difficulties in the Child Protection System
Journal Article Temporal Discrimination and Parents with Learning Difficulties in the Child Protection System Get access Tim Booth, Tim Booth Tim Booth is affiliated to the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield, David McConnell to the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney and Wendy Booth to the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. Correspondence to Professor Tim Booth, Dep…
Parental adequacy, parenting failure and parents with learning difficulties
The incidence of parenting failure among people with learning difficulties is widely presumed to be high although existing research is characterized by a number of methodological shortcomings. Drawing on material from an in-depth study of people with learning difficulties, this paper shows that the three variables commonly used for assessing parental inadequacy — child care problems within the family, the admission of a child into care and the te…
Psychology (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Economics (4 works)