Wendy Booth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3929732 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wendy Booth |
| PRENOMES | Wendy |
| SOBRENOME | Booth |
| ASSINATURA | BOOTH W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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
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
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…
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…
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
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 …
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…
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…
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 (10 obras) · Family and Disability Support Research (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 obras) · Developmental psychology (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Competence (human resources (3 obras) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 obras)