Charly wrote... > 'I'm planning to work with residential organisations
to help them enable their resident to develop and maintain friendships
and social networks'
hmmm... without wishing to sound facetious, perhaps the tell-tale
phrases 'residential organisation' and 'their resident' might suggest
some possible clues to the causal factors involved in producing an
absence of friendships and social networks for people in situations of
enforced dependency? Deinstitutionalisation, community presence and
participation appear to be the main predictors of social networks so far
as I can see from the literature... I guess that's not exactly rocket
science but it may help...
Try some of these...
http://www.publicadvocate.vic.gov.au/CA256A76007E8265/OrigDoc/~2E7C36C52
A9503A2CA256CC9000B46E2?OpenDocument
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~friend-link/page5.html
http://www.communityliving.org.uk/pricefriends.htm
old bibliography at:
http://www.ctserc.org/library/actualbibs/peerandadultinteractions.PDF
Robertson et al (2001) Social Networks of People With Mental Retardation
in Residential Settings, Mental Retardation, 39(3): 201-214
Forrester-Jones, R. (2001) Commentary: Friendships and Social
Integration Through Leisure Tizard Learning Disability Review Vol 6,
Issue 4 Pp. 28-32
Forrester-Jones, R., et al (2001) The Social Networks of people with
Learning Disabilities Living in the Community Twelve Years On. In:
Cambridge et al., Twelve Years On: the Outcomes and Costs of Community
Care for People with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Problems
Unpublished Report for the Dept of Health, Tizard, UKC, Canterbury.
A. Jobling, et al. (2000) Understanding Friendship: Young Adults With
Down Syndrome Exploring Relationships, Journal of Intellectual and
Developmental Disability
25(3): 235
I enjoyed Dan Goodley's (2000) book on Self-advocacy in the Lives of
People with Learning Difficulties: the politics of resilience,
Buckingham, Open University Press. (and related articles on
self-advocacy)
Hope that helps
Best wishes
Mark
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Subject: fostering friendships
Hi all,
I'm a social worker working mainly with people who have an intellectual
disability and I'm planning to work with residential organisations to
help
them enable their resident to develop and maintain friendships and
social
networks. Does anyone know of any literature or resource material on
the
subject ?
Thanks
Charley Hodgson
Disability Services
St John's Park
Hobart
Tasmania
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