Social Work and Social Sciences Review  

Peter Beresford

Guest Editorial

Alice Home,Irene Carter,Sandra Scarth,Rachel Warren

Research findings are often inaccessible to those who need them and knowledge sharing between researchers, practitioners and community groups can be impeded by organizational, role and priority differences. This paper presents a university-community proje... see more

Dorothy Badry,Peter Choate

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a non-diagnostic umbrella term that describes a range of effects that can occur as a result of a mother consuming alcohol during pregnancy (SAMSHA, 2014). Awareness of the need for professionals to become educated... see more

Julie A Lawrence,Linzi Brook

In this paper important issues, which involved vulnerable adults with Intellectual disabilities in transition from one rural location to another urban location, in England (UK) during 2014 are discussed. The notion of citizenship is discussed in relation ... see more

Jill MacSporran

This paper will explore the experience of service user involvement in social work education, examining the challenges of involving ‘seldom heard’ service user voices. Over a six month period, a group of four people with learning disabilities were supporte... see more

J Hernon,M Brandon,J Cossar,T Shakespeare

Research has established that disabled young people are at greater risk of experiencing all forms of maltreatment, especially neglect (Jones et al, 2012). Despite increasing awareness of their heightened vulnerability, the maltreatment of disabled childre... see more

Stephen J Macdonald,Lesley Deacon

This paper examines the relationship between dyslexia, homelessness and access to health and social services. This is a quantitative study analysing data from the Multiple Exclusion Homelessness across the United Kingdom Survey. Data was collected from 44... see more

Patricia Muldoon,Gloria Kirwan

This article explores the potential for social workers to engage in empowering relationships with young people whose disabilities necessitate that they receive help with certain physical functions, some of which would be termed both personal and intimate.... see more

Colin Cameron

In this article I discuss the affirmation model, initially proposed by Swain and French (2000), as an intervention in an ongoing debate within disability studies around the usefulness of the social model. I consider the purpose of developing models, such ... see more

Deborah Espiner,Frances Hartnett

This article applies the social model of disability (Oliver 1996) and the theory of social role valorisation (Wolfensberger 1998a) to the life experiences as told in the words of a man who experienced being institutionalised at 17 years of age. A focussed... see more

Dave Sims,Joanna Whisker

This critical discussion draws on the authors’ personal and professional experiences of personalisation. It argues that personalisation is a persuasive concept, constructed by political rhetoric, but requiring careful evaluation of its meaning and purpose... see more