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The future care plans of older adults with learning disabilities living at home with family carers (1997)
Journal Article
Prosser, H. (1997). The future care plans of older adults with learning disabilities living at home with family carers. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(1), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3148.1997.tb00002.x

This article describes the future residential and financial provision planned for a group of people with intellectual disability over the age of 40 years living with relatives in the family home and investigates the factors which influence carers' de... Read More about The future care plans of older adults with learning disabilities living at home with family carers.

Taking the risk? Assessing lesbian and gay carers (1997)
Book Chapter
Hicks, S. (1997). Taking the risk? Assessing lesbian and gay carers. In H. Kemshall, & J. Pritchard (Eds.), Good Practice in Risk Assessment & Risk Management 2: Protection, Rights & Responsibilities (27-39). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This book chapter assesses notions of 'risk' as they are used in relation to lesbian and gay foster carers and adopters, making use of other research to argue that the suggested risks to children are unfounded, or - rather - about attempts to maintai... Read More about Taking the risk? Assessing lesbian and gay carers.

Performing social work : an ethnographic study of talk and text in a metropolitan social services department (1997)
Thesis
White, S. Performing social work : an ethnographic study of talk and text in a metropolitan social services department. (Thesis). University of Salford

The central theme of this ethnographic study is captured in the word play in the title. It is, essentially, an analysis of the social work in social work. With a primary focus on the collegial discourse taking place between 'child care' social work... Read More about Performing social work : an ethnographic study of talk and text in a metropolitan social services department.

Reliability of the ICD-10 version of the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD) (1997)
Journal Article
Costell, H., Moss, S., Prosser, H., & Hatton, C. (1997). Reliability of the ICD-10 version of the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD). Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 32(6), 339-343. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00805439

The Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD) is a semi-structured clinical interview designed for use with respondents who have learning disability. The first version was based on the Present State Examinatio... Read More about Reliability of the ICD-10 version of the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD).

Validity of the PAS-ADD for detecting psychiatric symptoms in adults with learning disability (1997)
Journal Article
Moss, S., Ibbotson, B., Prosser, H., & Goldberg, D. (1997). Validity of the PAS-ADD for detecting psychiatric symptoms in adults with learning disability. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 6(32), 344-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00805440

The Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD) is a semi-structured interview for use with respondents who have learning disability and for key informants. This report investigates the ability of the instrument... Read More about Validity of the PAS-ADD for detecting psychiatric symptoms in adults with learning disability.