Making Life Work : Freedom and Disability in a Community Group Home /

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Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet community services have not, for the most part, delivered on the promises of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levinson, Jack, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
People with mental disabilities.
Group homes for people with mental disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Personnes ayant une deficience intellectuelle > New York (État) > Études de cas.
Foyers de groupe pour personnes ayant une deficience intellectuelle > New York (État) > Études de cas.
People with mental disabilities > New York (State) > Case studies.
Group homes for people with mental disabilities > New York (State) > Case studies.
New York (State)
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Locating the problem
  • Intellectual disability: a brief history
  • Governing disability in the community
  • The work of everyday life
  • How the group home works
  • All in a day's work
  • Endless, uncertain work
  • The clinical problem of everyday life
  • Group home technologies
  • Expertise and the work of staff meetings
  • Paper technologies: doing and documenting
  • Goal plans and individual conduct
  • At risk
  • What everybody knows about Paul
  • Conclusion: making life work.

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