Normalisation: A Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113815718X ISBN 13: 9781138157187

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Normalisation, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention. As the community care debate has moved into the public arena, it has attracted a certain amount of criticism, acknowledging the political and philosophical conflicts that surround it.

Normalisation: A Reader for the Nineties provides a much needed, informed appraisal of this controversial practice and combines various perspectives on the subject, including applied behavioural analysis, social policy and psychodynamic approaches. Thus it explores the discrepancies between the ideal and the reality and extends the debate by drawing comparisons, with other political and social ideologies.

About this title

About the Author

Hilary Brown holds an honorary professorship in social care in the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University and works as a consultant at Salomons which is a faculty of Canterbury Christ Church College.,
Helen Smith is Director, Bromley Mental Health Services, Oxleas Trust.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113815718X
• ISBN 13: 9781138157187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Brown Hilary, Smith Helen