Product Description: "Disability and Child Sexual Abuse" examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and how - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem...read more

Product Description: By means of 61 open-ended interviews with visually impaired people (written as stories) and an analysis of documentary evidence, this book explores the history of education for visually impaired children in Britain since the 18th century.

Product Description: This book explores the provision and practice of professional support and refers to the processes of enabling relationships between participants: professionals and clients. It also invokes the power of relationships to empower and construct change...read more

Product Description: `The strengths of this text are many. It has breadth and diversity in its content yet is presented in bite-size chapters. For those wishing to know more, it offers signposts to the relevant literature. The contributors have been carefully selected for their specific perspective yet these have been skilfully inter-related by the editors...read more

Product Description: At its best Disability Studies is an arena of critical debate addressing controversial issues concerning, not just the meaning of disability, but the nature of society, dominant values, quality of life, and even the right to live...read more

Product Description: The authors discuss how to start research, the range of tools, research methods and approaches which can be applied, as well as how to report and disseminate research findings. Also contained are learning objectives and practical advice to make understanding and practising research easier...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The aim of this workbook is to help young people explore the lives and experiences of visually impaired people and to gain an insight into the discrimination they face. The workbook draws heavily on interviews and case studies of visually impaired young people and adults with different lifestyles and experiences...read more

Product Description: Therapy is an essentially human activity that needs to be understood in terms of the relationships, processes of communication and people involved. This book is designed to support therapists in establishing open and mutual relationships, with clients and colleagues, for shared decision making, effective working partnerships and mutual empowerment...read more

Product Description: Book by Gleeson, Bill

Product Description: The major theme of this accessible and engaging text is that `disability' is caused by the way society is organized. The contributors demonstrate the many ways in which disabled people have taken the initiative in reshaping both the meaning of disability and the services and support available to them...read more

Product Description: This accessible book engages social workers in critical reflection on the provision of services to disabled people, providing an authoritative and practical guide to this area of work. Using the social model of disability as its underlying philosophy, it challenges traditional notions of disability and supports social workers in constructing open and non-hierarchical relationships for shared decision making, mutual empowerment and effective working partnerships with disabled people...read more