Informal care networks of older adults with learning disability (1996)
Journal Article
Prosser, H., & Moss, S. (1996). Informal care networks of older adults with learning disability. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 9(1), 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3148.1996.tb00095.x

This report describes a study of people with intellectual disability over the age of 40 years who were still living with relatives in the family home. Previous studies have revealed that there exist different types of social networks and that identif... Read More about Informal care networks of older adults with learning disability.

Validity of the schizophrenia diagnosis of the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PASS-ADD) (1996)
Journal Article
Disability (PASS-ADD). British Journal of Psychiatry, 168(3), 359-367. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.168.3.359

Background: first rank symptoms are central to the diagnosis of schizophrenia, but their complexity makes it difficult to validly detect them in people with learning disability. This report investigates ability of PAS-ADD to detect schizophrenia, val... Read More about Validity of the schizophrenia diagnosis of the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PASS-ADD).

The ‘Last Resort’?: Lesbian and gay experiences of the social work assessment process in fostering and adoption. (1996)
Journal Article
Hicks, S. (1996). The ‘Last Resort’?: Lesbian and gay experiences of the social work assessment process in fostering and adoption. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503159608415357

This article presents the results of a piece of research which considered the experiences of a number of lesbians and gay men who had been assessed as potential foster or adoptive carers by social workers. The findings suggest discriminatory response... Read More about The ‘Last Resort’?: Lesbian and gay experiences of the social work assessment process in fostering and adoption..

Heads and tales (1996)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (1996). Heads and tales. Representations, 104-123

On 5 September 1871 Carl Mauch, an energetic and credulous explorer of central southern Africa, was led along a "long line of tumbled down stones" to "masses of rubble and parts of walls and dense thickets"; the place that was to become known as Grea... Read More about Heads and tales.

Simulated and live practice teaching : the practice teacher's craft (1996)
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Doel, M., & Shardlow, S. (1996). Simulated and live practice teaching : the practice teacher's craft. Social Work Education, 15(4), 16-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479611220321

The paper considers the assertion that students can learn how to practise exclusively through simulations, without working with real clients. The authors look at the benefits and difficulties of both live and simulated practice for the student's lear... Read More about Simulated and live practice teaching : the practice teacher's craft.

A feminist critique of family therapy (1996)
Journal Article
Featherstone, V. (1996). A feminist critique of family therapy. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 9(1), 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515079608256349

This paper is a feminist critique of traditional family therapy considering the cybernetic epistemology underpinning it as a particular way of seeing the family. The political implications of this way of seeing d be considered in tern of structural i... Read More about A feminist critique of family therapy.

Respondent and informant accounts of psychiatric symptoms in a sample of patients with learning disability (1996)
Journal Article
Moss, S., Prosser, H., Ibbotson, B., & Goldberg, D. (1996). Respondent and informant accounts of psychiatric symptoms in a sample of patients with learning disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 40(5), 457-465. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2788.1996.792792.x

This paper investigates differences in the nature and frequency of psychiatric symptoms reported by patients with learning disability and key informants. The study involved psychiatric assessment of 100 patients with learning disabilities and key inf... Read More about Respondent and informant accounts of psychiatric symptoms in a sample of patients with learning disability.

The value of an outcomes information resource: an evaluation of the UK Clearing House on Health Outcomes (1996)
Journal Article
Greehhalgh, J., Long, A., Brettle, A., & Grant, M. (1996). The value of an outcomes information resource: an evaluation of the UK Clearing House on Health Outcomes. Journal of Management in Medicine, 10(5), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/02689239610146553

Reports on the first phase of an evaluation of the UK Clearing House on Health Outcomes (UKCHHO) undertaken by a sample survey of purchasers and providers on its mailing list and users of its enquiry service. Explores user satisfaction with the servi... Read More about The value of an outcomes information resource: an evaluation of the UK Clearing House on Health Outcomes.