Parents with intellectual disabilities : past, present and futures /
Parents with intellectual disabilities : past, present and futures /
edited by Gwynnyth Llewellyn [and others].
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- 1 online resource (296)
Introduction / Family and Community Life -- Becoming a Mother -- Becoming a Father / Looking Back on Their Own Upbringing / Family Within a Family / Children and Their Life Experiences / Understanding Community in the Lives of Parents with Intellectual Disabilities / Citizenship and Community Participation / Parenting and Resistance: Strategies in Dealing with Services and Professionals / Human Services Enabling and Disabling Parents with Intellectual Disabilities -- Parenting Education Programs / Supported Decision Making for Women with Intellectual Disabilities / Turning Policy Into Practice / Caught in the Child Protection Net / Turning Rights into Realities in Qu�ebec, Canada / Supporting Mothers' Community Participation / Advocacy for Change: "The Final Tool in the Toolbox?" / You have free access to this content -- Conclusion: Taking Stock and Looking to the Future. Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Rannveig Traustad�ottir, David McConnell and Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir -- Rachel Mayes and Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir -- Gwynnyth Llewellyn and David McConnell -- Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir and Rannveig Traustad�ottir -- Jytte Faureholm -- Gwynnyth Llewellyn and Marie Gustavsson -- Brigit Mirfin-Veitch -- Rannveig Traustad�ottir and Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir -- Maurice Feldman -- Sue McGaw and Sue Candy -- Beth Tarleton -- David McConnell and Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir -- Marjorie Aunos, Laura Pacheco and Katherine Moxness -- David McConnell and Gwynnyth Llewellyn -- Linda Ward and Beth Tarleton -- Part I: Part II:
Parents with Intellectnal Disabilities is a thoughful and comprehensive collection by an international team that blazes new trails for inclusion and equality for adults with intellectual disabilites. By asserting that forming a family and parenting are pathways both to social value and personal fulfilment, it challenges us to question our own values and assumptions about adults with intellectual disabilities as parents. An essential text for a full understanding of disability in the world of today and tomorrow Ivan Brown, Ph. D., Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare University of Toronto, Canada. This is the first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children and the systems and services they enocunter Contributors champion the rights of parents with intellectual disabilities, adovcating their full participation in the society and culture in which they live, in spite of stigmatizing attitudes and exclusionary practices. This authoritative book examines the very latest research and scholarship on the subject Throughout the text, theory and research are linked to practice. The contributors provide a clear set of principles outlining how to work with parents with intellectual disabilities in ways that recognize family strengths and promote child and family well-being. Chapters are written by experts currently engaged either in academic study of the topic or as researcher-paracitioners in the field of intellectual disabilities. Each one provides a brief overview of the development of ideas and literature pertiment to the chapter's topic and concludes with principles drawn from the research to inform practice. Written to reflect the United Nations Conention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations, 2006), the book provides a crucial reference for students, practtioners and prefessionals engagd in this area. --Book Jacket.
9780470660393 0470660392 9786612550393 6612550392
10.1002/9780470660393 doi
10.1002/9780470660393 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Parents with mental disabilities--Cross-cultural studies.
Parenting--Cross-cultural studies.
Parents ayant une d�eficience intellectuelle--�Etudes transculturelles.
R�ole parental--�Etudes transculturelles.
Parenting
Parents with mental disabilities
Geestelijk gehandicapten.
Gezin.
Ouder-kind-relaties.
Electronic resource.
Cross-cultural studies
HQ759.912 / .P363 2010
306.874087/4
Introduction / Family and Community Life -- Becoming a Mother -- Becoming a Father / Looking Back on Their Own Upbringing / Family Within a Family / Children and Their Life Experiences / Understanding Community in the Lives of Parents with Intellectual Disabilities / Citizenship and Community Participation / Parenting and Resistance: Strategies in Dealing with Services and Professionals / Human Services Enabling and Disabling Parents with Intellectual Disabilities -- Parenting Education Programs / Supported Decision Making for Women with Intellectual Disabilities / Turning Policy Into Practice / Caught in the Child Protection Net / Turning Rights into Realities in Qu�ebec, Canada / Supporting Mothers' Community Participation / Advocacy for Change: "The Final Tool in the Toolbox?" / You have free access to this content -- Conclusion: Taking Stock and Looking to the Future. Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Rannveig Traustad�ottir, David McConnell and Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir -- Rachel Mayes and Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir -- Gwynnyth Llewellyn and David McConnell -- Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir and Rannveig Traustad�ottir -- Jytte Faureholm -- Gwynnyth Llewellyn and Marie Gustavsson -- Brigit Mirfin-Veitch -- Rannveig Traustad�ottir and Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir -- Maurice Feldman -- Sue McGaw and Sue Candy -- Beth Tarleton -- David McConnell and Hanna Bj�org Sigurj�onsd�ottir -- Marjorie Aunos, Laura Pacheco and Katherine Moxness -- David McConnell and Gwynnyth Llewellyn -- Linda Ward and Beth Tarleton -- Part I: Part II:
Parents with Intellectnal Disabilities is a thoughful and comprehensive collection by an international team that blazes new trails for inclusion and equality for adults with intellectual disabilites. By asserting that forming a family and parenting are pathways both to social value and personal fulfilment, it challenges us to question our own values and assumptions about adults with intellectual disabilities as parents. An essential text for a full understanding of disability in the world of today and tomorrow Ivan Brown, Ph. D., Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare University of Toronto, Canada. This is the first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children and the systems and services they enocunter Contributors champion the rights of parents with intellectual disabilities, adovcating their full participation in the society and culture in which they live, in spite of stigmatizing attitudes and exclusionary practices. This authoritative book examines the very latest research and scholarship on the subject Throughout the text, theory and research are linked to practice. The contributors provide a clear set of principles outlining how to work with parents with intellectual disabilities in ways that recognize family strengths and promote child and family well-being. Chapters are written by experts currently engaged either in academic study of the topic or as researcher-paracitioners in the field of intellectual disabilities. Each one provides a brief overview of the development of ideas and literature pertiment to the chapter's topic and concludes with principles drawn from the research to inform practice. Written to reflect the United Nations Conention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations, 2006), the book provides a crucial reference for students, practtioners and prefessionals engagd in this area. --Book Jacket.
9780470660393 0470660392 9786612550393 6612550392
10.1002/9780470660393 doi
10.1002/9780470660393 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Parents with mental disabilities--Cross-cultural studies.
Parenting--Cross-cultural studies.
Parents ayant une d�eficience intellectuelle--�Etudes transculturelles.
R�ole parental--�Etudes transculturelles.
Parenting
Parents with mental disabilities
Geestelijk gehandicapten.
Gezin.
Ouder-kind-relaties.
Electronic resource.
Cross-cultural studies
HQ759.912 / .P363 2010
306.874087/4