Hello Keith
You wrote:
| Concerning "Health Visitors", in Australia this term is used to refer to
| both 'community nurses' and persons with statutatory responsibility for
| visiting, for example, residential services for people with disability,
| such as 'long-stay' hospitals or group homes. In the latter instance,
| these people need not have a health qualification; their role is not to
| provide direct advice to residents / clients / patients, but to advocate
to
| service managers concerning quality of life issues.
I think we do need to review the meaning of "health". I believe it often
immdediately rendered in its meaning as the absence of disease or illness.
Therefore any term prefaced by "health" carries with it, that biomedical
rendition of meaning. I admit to having thrown the baby out with the
bathwater when dismissing health-labelled concepts until considering how
broadly the notion of health is perceived by individuals.
We know that there are people with chronic or terminal illness who do not
percive themselves as being "unhealthy" because they may actually feel quite
good and can function quite well. Health can also mean the degree of self
determination one has OR one's adaptablity (and myriad other things).
Best regards
Laurence Bathurst
School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Sydney
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Lidcombe NSW 1825
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From: "Keith McVilly" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 8:04 AM
Subject: Parents with disability & 'Health Visitors'
| Dear Deborah, Mary, et al.,
|
| Concerning issues affecting the lives of parents (especially mothers) with
| intellectual disability, have a look at the work by Professor Gwynnyth
| Llewellyn, from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Health Science:
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| One recent paper (among many on this topic) that comes to mind is:
| Llewellyn, G., & McConnell, D., (2002). Mothers with learning
difficulties
| and their support networks. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research,
| 46, 17-34.
|
| Concerning "Health Visitors", in Australia this term is used to refer to
| both 'community nurses' and persons with statutatory responsibility for
| visiting, for example, residential services for people with disability,
| such as 'long-stay' hospitals or group homes. In the latter instance,
| these people need not have a health qualification; their role is not to
| provide direct advice to residents / clients / patients, but to advocate
to
| service managers concerning quality of life issues.
|
| Regards,
|
| Keith.
|
|
|
|
|
| Keith R. McVilly
| B.A.., Grad. Dip. Psych., M. Psych. (Clinical)
| MAPS & Member of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists
|
| University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine
| Centre for Developmental Disability Studies
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