Empowerment in everyday life : learning disability /
Contributor(s): Ramcharan, Paul
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Publisher: London ; Bristol, Pa. : Jessica Kingsley, 1997, (2006)Description: xvi, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781853023828; 9781853023828:.Subject(s): People with mental disabilities -- Social conditions | People with mental disabilities -- Services for![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Empowerment in informal settings. Everything you ever wanted to know about Down's syndrome, but never bothered to ask / Anya Souza with Paul Ramcharan -- Empowering and relationships / Michael Bayley -- Shouting the loudest : self-advocacy, power and diversity / Jan Walmsley and Jackie Downer -- Voices and choices : mapping entitlements to friendships and community contracts / Paul Ramcharan, Morag McGrath and Gordon Grant -- Families and empowerment / Marian Barnes -- Part 1 conclusion : empowerment in informal settings : the themes / John Borland and Paul Ramcharan.
II. Empowerment in formal settings. Empowerment within services : a comfortable delusion / Steve Dowson -- Consulting to involve or consulting to empower? / Gordon Grant -- "I'm stuck here with my poxy star chart" : listening to mentally disordered offenders with learning disabilities / Margaret Flynn ... [et al.] -- Empowerment and community care : some of the legal issues / Gwyneth Roberts -- Section 2 : empowerment in formal settings : the themes / Paul Ramcharan and John Borland. III. Empowerment in different legal and policy contexts. Capacity and empowerment / Gwyneth Roberts -- Citizenship and people with disabilities in Canada : towards the elusive ideal / Marcia Rioux, Michael Bach and Cameron Crawford -- Empowerment and the limitations of formal human services and legislation / Errol Cocks and Judith Cockram -- Citizenship, empowerment and everyday life : ideal and illusion in the new millenium / Paul Ramcharan ... [et al.].
Empowerment in Everyday Life examines the practical implications of empowerment, from a cross-cultural perspective. The scope of the book ranges from the interactional and personal level to the level of government policy.
Includes bibliographical references and index