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Societies, 2023 The right to live in the community is fundamental and is directly related to the possibility of independent living for persons with disabilities, a central principle of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ratified by ...
Ina Dimitrova, Galina Goncharova
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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Digital Professional Practice, Digital Competences and Impact on Family Support Services
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital‐mediated practices in public social services require new strategies for administration, communication, assessment and intervention. Within this field, research framed under UNESCO's (2020) Media and Information Literacy model—examining digital media management and digital competence in information management, communication, digital ...
Guacimara Rodríguez +6 more
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Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2006 The present study has as its aim to describe the daily work of a psychosocial care center and to aprehend how the users cared by such service experience the offered therapeutic process. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with eleven users of the
Sandra Regina Rosolen Soares +1 more
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Young People’s Perceptions of Preparedness for Leaving Care: A Mixed Methods Study
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An increasing number of young adults in Ghana begin adulthood from residential care. Many face challenges after leaving care, partly because they are unprepared for independent adult life. This study examines the level of preparedness and the factors influencing it among young people in residential care in Ghana.
Kwabena Frimpong‐Manso, Yvonne Norman
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Environmental Deinstitutionalization in Russia
, 2009 Since the early 1990s a steadily growing social science literature has emerged on environmental reform. One of the core claims of the environmental reform school-of-thought is that environmental considerations and interests become institutionalized in ...
Mol, A.P.J.
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the paradox of seeking local solutions in rural development when conflicts result from structural transformations of the agrarian economy driven by national political choices. Since the 1990s, participatory approaches inspired by neo‐institutionalist theories of local governance have encouraged development actors to view ...
Toni‐Giovanni Pegurri
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Factors Affecting Treatment Regress and Progress in Forensic Psychiatry: A Thematic Analysis
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 International variability and shifting trends in forensic psychiatry lead to gaps in national service provision and needs for service development. This study explores these needs through the subjective narratives of those involved in Finnish forensic ...
Riitta Askola +4 more
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Deinstitutionalization in intellectual disabilities
, 2007 Purpose of review The process of deinstitutionalization for intellectual disability services is at different stages across the world, varying from complete closure in Sweden to a vague hope in Taiwan.
Beadle-Brown, Julie +2 more
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Pathways to Adult Sibling Estrangement: Perspectives of Estranged U.S. Adults
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Determine how estranged adults narrate pathways to adult sibling estrangement. Background A small but meaningful share of adult sibling ties end in no‐contact estrangement, yet existing research has yet to comprehensively determine the pathways to this relationship dynamic.
Rin Reczek +2 more
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