Supported residential services as a type of “total institution”
Implications for the National Disability Insurance Scheme ( NDIS )
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11228735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elroy Dearn (0000-0002-7308-9283, RMIT University Melbourne Victoria Australia, corresponding author), Paul Ramcharan (0000-0001-6744-8801, RMIT University Melbourne Victoria Australia), Penelope Weller (0000-0003-4659-3561, RMIT University Melbourne Victoria Australia), Lisa Brophy (0000-0001-6460-3490, LaTrobe University Melbourne Victoria Australia), Katherine Johnson (0000-0001-7092-4426, RMIT University Melbourne Victoria Australia) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 279-295 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajs4.233 |
| OpenAlex | W4295328842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
A policy norm enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006 reflected in Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme is for people with psychosocial and other disabilities to have choice and control over their lives and not to live in institutional settings. In Australia, private congregate care settings remain in most states and territories, yet are not recognised as institutional settings in policy or academic literature. This recognition is long overdue and is the focus of this article. The article reports on findings from an ethnographic study in a type of private congregate care setting in Victoria—supported residential services (SRS). Adopting criteria adopted by Davies (1989) from Goffman's notion of “total institution,” observations and interviews with 12 residents with psychosocial disability are analysed. These settings are found to meet many of the criteria for total institution. This finding has two critical implications for policy and practice. First, the extent to which institutionalisation in SRS impacts on the choices residents are able to make. Second, the extent to which independent support and advocacy are needed to ensure residents can exercise choice and control over their lives to find pathways out of SRS
Convention · Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities · Institution · Institutionalisation · Political science · Project commissioning · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Public relations · Publishing · Social science · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |