Life Story Work and Social Work Practice
A Case Study With Ex-Prisoners Labelled as Having an Intellectual Disability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11957564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathy Ellem (0000-0003-2074-9724, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Kathleen Alicia Ellem (The University of Queensland), Jill Wilson (0000-0002-5474-5871, The University of Queensland) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-82 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-407X • E-ISSN: 1447-0748 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03124070903464285 |
| OpenAlex | W2037099143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
In common with other professions social workers have the power to articulate certain ‘‘truths’’ about the people who use their services (Hare Mustin, 1994). These knowledge statements about people, often situated in case files may become the only background information of the lived experience for people with disability (Gillman, Swain, & Heyman, 1997). Social workers need to develop interviewing, assessment and recording practices that give precedent to the worldview of service users, if they are to truly understand and respond effectively to people's lives (Bigby, 2007). One such way of doing this is by adopting a life story approach to working with vulnerable people, which can provide a holistic stance to a person's social reality (Ortiz, 1985). This article outlines the use of this approach in research with Queensland ex-prisoners who were labelled as having an intellectual disability. By explaining the process used by the first author (hereafter known as the researcher), the methodological findings of this study illustrate how life story work can contribute to social work practice
Intellectual disability · Interview · Medical model of disability · Political science · Power (physics · Psychiatry · Reading (process · Sociology · Work (physics · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
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Does past life matter? Social workers' views on biographical approaches
Social Work and Disability
Effective Responses to Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities
Rights-Based Social Work and the Named Social Worker for Adults with Learning Disabilities
Making good
Ethics and Values in Social Work
Ethics and Values in Social Work
Discourses in the Mirrored Room
The Life Story Interview as a Bridge in Narrative Inquiry
Researching Life Stories
Life History or ‘Case’ History
Ethical challenges of life story research with ex‐prisoners with intellectual disability
Trying to Get it Right
Sounds of Silence
Some Ethical and Methodological Issues in Research with People with Learning Difficulties
Liberating voices through narrative methods
Tales of Hidden Lives
Working with the Experts
Using Autobiographical Approaches with People with Learning Difficulties
Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities
I’m very careful about that’
Giving Silence a Chance
Double Binds
Research as Social Work
Conducting Qualitative Interview Research With People With Expressive Language Difficulties
The use of depth interviewing with vulnerable subjects
Mental Health Consequences of Life History Method
The risk of 'going observationalist
The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Retrospective Accounts of Violent Events by Gun Offenders
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |