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Making life work : freedom and disability in a community group home /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levinson, Jack, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Group homes for people with mental disabilities > New York (State) > Case studies.
People with mental disabilities > New York (State) > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Locating the problem
  • Intellectual disability: a brief history
  • Governing disability in the community
  • The work of everyday life
  • How the group home works
  • All in a day's work
  • Endless, uncertain work
  • The clinical problem of everyday life
  • Group home technologies
  • Expertise and the work of staff meetings
  • Paper technologies: doing and documenting
  • Goal plans and individual conduct
  • At risk
  • What everybody knows about Paul
  • Conclusion: making life work.