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The Mentally Handicapped Adolescent
The Slough Project of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children: An Experimental Step Towards Life in the Community
- 1st Edition - November 12, 2013
- Author: Eileen P. Baranyay
- Editor: H. L. Freeman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 7 0 8 9 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 8 6 7 0 - 2
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Request a sales quoteThe Mentally Handicapped Adolescent: The Slough Project of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children: An Experimental Step Towards Life in the Community is a documentation of the said project. The title aims to examine the mechanisms of the project. The Slough projects aims to analyze the feasibility of effectively integrating mentally handicapped adolescent to the community through the training. The text first details the prospects of the project, and then proceeds to discussing the projects during its implementation. Next, the selection provides a retrospective analysis of the projects, along with the achievements of the project. The text also discusses the recommendation for future planning. The book will be of great interest to psychologists, sociologists, and community social workers.
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Slough in Prospect
Social climate
Implications of broader concept of education
Research findings into effects of social and emotional deprivation
Awareness of need for emphasis on social aspect of personality for the severely subnormal
Role of environmental conditions during adolescence
Function of group membership upon culture for the adolescent
Pioneer work of Clarke and Clarke, Tizard, O'Connor, and change of attitude towards industrial abilities of the severely subnormal
Impetus of Mental Health Act of 1959 to provision of community services for mentally subnormal
Change of attitude towards large institutions for care of the young, the sick, and the aged
Continuous advocacy of hostel provision as alternative to hospitalization
Mental HealthYear 1960—Growth of National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children
Concept of Slough Project evolved
General Secretary of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children, inspired by workers such as Tizard and Gunzburg
Slough Project, a logical successor to the Brooklands Experiment
Aims of the Slough Project
Outline features of the scheme:
Location of hostels and workshop
Workshop design
Hostel accommodation and furnishings
Type and selection of trainees
"Family" emphasis in way of life
Provision for male and female trainees
Length of training
Staffing
Sources of finance
Medical facilities
Documentation
Chapter 2 Slough in Action
The Industrial Training Unit
The hostel
Leisure activities and community contacts
Directed social training
The international role of the project
The role of Slough as a centre for visitors
Chapter 3 Slough in Retrospect
Analysis of applications for entry to Slough
Analysis of entries according to the local authority sponsoring
Distinctive features of the group selected
Scores on entry and on discharge on the Vineland Social MaturityScale of 44 trainees
Implications of the training from the angle of the trainees
Value of the training as estimated by the parents
Follow-up of those with training completed by time of transfer of the Project to Buckinghamshire County Council
Selected case studies
Chapter 4 Achievements of the Slough Project
Chapter 5 Recommendations for Future Planning
Chapter 6 Conclusions
References
Index
- No. of pages: 178
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 12, 2013
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483170893
- eBook ISBN: 9781483186702
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