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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface to the fourth edition
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: setting the scene
• 1 Social work and disability: old and new directions
• Old directions
• New directions
• Explaining disability
• The social model and its implications for social work
• 2 Impairment, disability and research
• Introduction
• Relevance of medical control
• Medical knowledge and the social work task
• Identifying impairment
• Origin of impairment
• Classifying impairment
• Prevention of disability
• Impairment and disability
• The need to investigate disability
• Functional definitions of disability/disability research
• National surveys
• Definitions of disability in the design of questionnaires
• 3 Relationships and families
• Families and households
• Relationships
• 4 Independent living and personal assistance
• Introduction
• Centres for Independent Living
• Personal assistants and direct payments
• Assessment
• Other social services provision
• Residential accommodation for disabled people: a discredited provision
• 5 Independent living: the wider social policy and legal context
• Introduction
• Employment
• Equality and human rights
• Housing
• Disabled children and education
• The rights of disabled people: ways forward?
• 6 Independent living: vulnerability and safeguarding
• Introduction
• Lessons from the past and meaning for today
• Institutional abuse
• Hate crime
• Abuse of disabled children
• Risk
• 7 Conclusion: future directions
• Theoretical and professional developments
• Organisational issues and structural developments
• Some strategies for social work
• References
• Index