Standard and Mental Handicap Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
Sect. I	Community care - the context of practice
1	New approaches to competence: examples from nursing and social work	3
2	Service provision: developments in the NHS	16
3	The independent sector	23
4	Policy organization and practice in the provision of community services for people with intellectual disability	40
5	Managing services to assure quality	61
6	Contracts or partnerships?	74
7	Case management in community care - advantages and disadvantages	93
8	Learning how to be a customer	100
9	The residential setting in mental handicap: an overview of selected policy initiatives 1971-1989	106
Sect. 2	Providing competent help
10	Case management and key working	125
11	Balancing risks and needs	139
12	Family vulnerability, support networks and counselling	149
13	Helping personal and sexual relationships in a multiracial society	157
14	Income and money	166
15	Psychological interventions and techniques: how to promote learning and reduce the adverse effects of handicap	179
16	Psychological methods: more on how to promote learning and reduce the adverse effects of handicap	218
17	Role of remedial therapists in interdisciplinary work	240
18	Severe learning difficulties: educational provision	266
19	Advocacy - issues for the 1990s	284
20	A lifetime of caring	292
Sect. 3	Boundaries and imperatives for practice in a multiracial society
21	Learning difficulties in the context of social change: a challenge for professional action	303
22	The law relating to people with mental handicap	320
23	Providing care in a multiracial society	342
24	Professional boundaries in mental handicap: a policy analysis of joint training	352
25	Professions in teams	371
26	The community as an arena for shared training and practice	386
27	Triggers for change	403
Sect. 4	Continuing professional development: opportunities in the 1990s
28	Beyond the basics - higher level competence	419
29	Achieving change and working together: continuing professional development	431
30	Community care and professional directions	444
31	Learning the lessons of educational research	461
32	The European Community	469
33	The social educator in Western Europe	475
34	A collective enterprise	485
	Index	491