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- Mapping Employment Focussed Services for Disabled People
- Labour Market Experiences of People with Disabilities
- Better for the Break
- Real Work: Supported Employment for People with Learning Difficulties
- Residential provision for people with intellectual disabilities in England, Wales and Scotland
- Outside but not inside yet!
- This is your meeting: a qualitative study of person-centered planning
- The introduction of person-centred planning in an Irish agency for people with intellectual disabilities: an introductory study
- Overcoming the barriers: moving towards a service model that is conducive to person centred planning
- Implementing person-centered planning on a statewide basis: Leadership, training, and satisfaction issues, in Holburn, S. & Vietze, P. (eds) Person-Centered Planning: Research, Practice and Future Directions
- Application of a lifestyle development process for persons with severe intellectual disabilities: a case study report
- A systematic review of the evidence base for lifestyle planning in adults with learning disabilities: implications for other disabled populations
- A systematic evaluation of preferences identified through person-centered planning for people with profound multiple disabilities
- The effect of person centered planning activities on the IEP/Transition planning process
- Quantifying the Process and Outcomes of Person-Centered Planning
- Person-Centered Planning: Characteristics, Inhibitors and Supports
- Impact of person-centered later life planning training program for older adults with mental retardation
- Evaluating preferred activities and challenging behavior through person-centered planning, in Holburn, S. & Vietze, P. (eds) Person-Centered Planning: Research, Practice and Future Directions
- Understanding the Parents Who Are Mentally Retarded: Guidelines for Family Preservation Programmes
- Teaching child-care and safety skills to parents with intellectual disabilities through self-learning
- Social Support Networks and Psychological Well-being of Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities
- Relationships between Social Support, Stress and Mother-Child Interactions in Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities
- Promoting health and home safety for children of parents with intellectual disability: a randomised controlled trial
- Prevalence and outcomes for parents with disabilities and their children in an Australian court sample
- Parents with learning disabilities: a study of gender and cultural perspectives in East London
- Parenting Education for Parents with Intellectual Disabilities: A Review of Outcome Studies
- Men in the Lives of Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities
- Effects of Maternal Mental Retardation and Poverty on Intellectual, Academic, and Behavioral Status of School-Age Children
- Developmental profiles of children born to mothers with intellectual disability
- Children of Mothers with Intellectual Disability: Stigma, Mother-Child Relationship and Self-esteem
- Attitudes towards Sexuality, Sterilization and Parenting Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
- Against the Odds: Growing Up With Parents Who Have Learning Difficulties
- The quality and costs of village communities, residential campuses and community-based residential supports in the UK
- The living circumstances of children and adults with mental retardation or developmental disabilities in the United States, Canada, England and Wales, and Australia
- Staff characteristics, working conditions and outcomes amongst staff in services for people with intellectual disabilities
- Service support to people with severe intellectual disabilities and the most severe challenging behaviours in Wales: Processes, outcomes and costs
- Residential provision for people with intellectual disabilities in England, Wales and Scotland
- Rational resourcing and productivity in staffed housing for people with intellectual disabilities: The relationship of staff input to resident characteristics and service quality
- Quality of life outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities living in staffed community housing services: A stratified random sample of statutory, voluntary and private agency provision
- Outcomes and costs of community living: Semi-independent living and group homes
- Functional grouping in residential homes for people with intellectual disabilities
- Evaluation of the dissemination of Active Support training in staffed community residences
- Deinstitutionalization in the UK: Outcomes for service users
- Comparison of supported living and traditional residential services in Oregon
- Association between the provision characteristics and operation of supported housing services and resident outcomes
- Making Decisions: Best Practice and new ideas for supporting people with high support needs to make decisions
- The quality and costs of supported living residences and group homes in the United Kingdom
- older people
- A randomised controlled trial of a home environmental intervention: effect on efficacy and upset in caregivers and on daily function of persons with dementia
- Struggling for occupational satisfaction: older people in care homes
- Maintenance and rehabilitation of independence in old age: An intervention programme for staff
- Behavioural management in nursing and residential homes: a randomised controlled trial
- Prevention of falls in the elderly trial (PROFET): a randomised controlled trial
- Occupational therapy for independent-living older adults: A randomised controlled trial
- A population-based study of environmental hazards in the homes of older persons
- Treatment of agitation in Alzheimer's disease. A randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial
- Stress reduction for family caregivers: effects of adult day care use
- Reality orientation for dementia
- Memory wallet intervention in an adult day care setting
- Interventions for in-home caregivers: a review of research 1990 to present
- Interventions for caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease: a review and analysis of content process and outcomes
- Improving dressing behaviour in cognitively impaired nursing home residents
- Effects of a training programme to reduce stress in carers of patients with dementia
- Effects of a pharmacist's medication review in nursing homes: a randomised controlled trial
- Dementia reconsidered: the person comes first
- A family intervention to delay nursing home placement of patients with Alzheimer's disease: a randomised controlled trial
- Reminiscence therapy for dementia
- Interventions for in-home caregivers: a review of research 1990 to present
- Interventions for caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease: a review and analysis of content process and outcomes
- Occupational therapy in accident and emergency departments: a randomised controlled trial
- Issuing assistive devices to older patients in rehabilitation: an exploratory study
- Maintenance and rehabilitation of independence in old age: An intervention programme for staff
- physical disability and sensory impairment
- Occupational therapy for stroke patients not admitted to hospital: a randomised controlled trial
- Issuing assistive devices to older patients in rehabilitation: an exploratory study
- Domiciliary Occupational Therapy for Patients with Stroke Discharged from Hospital: Randomised Controlled Trial
- A randomised controlled trial of enhanced Social Service occupational therapy for stroke patients
- A multicentre randomised controlled trial of leisure therapy and conventional occupational therapy after stroke
- A qualitative study exploring the meaning of manual handling training in a working environment at risk of back injury
- Users' Views of Access to Work
- The Dynamics of Being Disabled
- Overcoming Perceived Barriers to Employment Among People with Arthritis
- Engagement and Interaction: A Comparison between Supported Employment and ATCs (Adults Training Centres)
- Choosing, Getting and Keeping a Job: A Study of Supported Employment for People with Complex Needs
- Compliance with prescribed adaptive equipment: A literature review
- Within reason: access to services for blind and partially sighted people
- The researched opinions on research: visually impaired people and visual impairment research
- Sources of stress in mothers of young children with visual impairments
- Shaping the Future: the experiences of blind and partially sighted children in the UK. Summary report
- Putting Vision into Community Care
- Psychosocial adaptation to age-related vision loss: a six-year perspective
- Mothers with visual impairments who are raising young children
- Measuring Psychosocial and Functional Outcomes of a Group Model of Vision Rehabilitation Services for Older Adults
- Lost Vision: Older visually impaired people in the UK
- Improving Lives: Priorities in health and social care for blind and partially sighted people
- Health-related fitness of children who are visually impaired
- Health conditions, activity limitations and participation restrictions among older people with visual impairments
- Ethnic Minorities and Visual Impairment: A Research Review
- Changing the way we think about blindness
- Adaptation Strategies, Well-being and Activities of Daily Living Among People with Low Vision
- Mapping employment-focused services for disabled people
- Labour Market Experiences of People with Disabilities
- effective partnership working
- Where has all the care management gone? The challenge of Parkinson's disease to the health and social care interface
- The placement of a social service care manager in a GP surgery as a way to improve carer access to services and improve liaison between statutory agencies
- The impact of recent primary care reforms in the UK on interprofessional working in primary care centres
- The care management interface with general practice: a case study
- Partnership and Collaboration: Rhetoric and Reality
- Negotiating and managing partnerships in primary care
- Establishing process indicators for joint working in mental health: rationale and results from a national survey
- Community Care for the Frail Elderly: an Urban Experiment
- Collaboration, facilities and communities in day care services for older people
- Building Blocks: An independent evaluation of the Trowbridge Alliance Project
- An evaluation of an alternative to long-stay hospital care for frail elderly patients: 1) The Model of Care; 2) Costs and Effectiveness
- other
- A 1 and 2 Year Follow-Up study of Adoptive Families and Special Needs Children
- Outcomes for Drug-Exposed Children four years Post-Adoption
- Permanent Family Placement
- The Road to Ruin? Sequences of Initiation into Drug Use and Offending by Young People in Britain
- The Effectiveness of the Minnesota Model Approach in the Treatment of Adolescent Drug Abusers
- Social Dimensions of Adolescent Substance Use
- Rapid Relapse Generally Follows Treatment for Substance Use Disorders Among Adolescents
- Primary Prevention for Alcohol Misuse in Young People (Cochrane Systematic Review)
- Pharmacy-based Needle Exchange (PBNX) Schemes in South East England: A Survey of Service Providers
- Natural Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Problems: Methodological Review of the Research with Suggestions for Future Directions
- Factors Associated with Abstinence, Lapse or Relapse to Heroin Use After Residential Treatment: Protective Effect of Coping Responses
- Conduct Problems and Early Cannabis Initiation: A Longitudinal Study of Gender Differences
- Competency Training: The Strengthening Families Program for parents and youth 10-14
- Blueprints Model Program: Life Skills Training
- Adverse Outcomes of Alcohol Use in Adolescents
- A Longitudinal Study of Cannabis Use and Mental Health from Adolescence to Early Adulthood
- A Comprehensive and Comparative Review of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Outcome
- The Use of Brief Interventions Adapted from Motivational Interviewing Across Behavioural Domains: A Systematic Review
- Families That Care – Guiding Good Choices
- Early Risers Skills for Success - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (US Department of Health and Human Sciences)
- An Analysis of 15-19-Year-Old First Attenders at the Dublin Needle Exchange 1990-1997
- Social Class and Smoking at Age 15: The Effect of Different Definitions of Smoking
- Social work supervision of young people
- The Road to Ruin? Sequences of Initiation into Drug Use and Offending by Young People in Britain
- Young People, Victimisation and the Police: British Crime Survey findings on experiences and attitudes of 12 to 15 years olds
- Young People and Crime
- Understanding and Preventing Youth Crime
- Tell Them So They Listen: Messages from Young People in Custody
- One Way Street? Retrospectives on Childhood Prostitution
- Mis-spent Youth 98
- Lost Opportunities for Intervention: Undetected Markers for the Development of Serious Juvenile Delinquency
- It's Someone Taking Part Of You: a study of young women and sexual exploitation
- ISSP (Intensive Supervision and Support Programme): An Experiment in Multi-Systemic Responses to Persistent Young Offenders Known to Childrens Services
- Intervening to prevent antisocial personality disorder: a scoping review
- Fixing It: Young People, Drugs and Disadvantage
- Evaluation of the Youth Court Demonstration Project
- A Political Criminology of Youth Homelessness
- The Development of Offending and Antisocial Behaviour from Childhood: Key Findings from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
- Competency Training: The Strengthening Families Program for parents and youth 10-14
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy: A Revised Manual, in National Institute on Drug Abuse Treatment Manual, Rockville, MD: NIDA
- Behaviour Problems in Preschool Children: A Review of Recent Research
- A Comprehensive and Comparative Review of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Outcome
- What works for troubled children? Family Support for Children with emotional and behavioural problems
- The Use of Brief Interventions Adapted from Motivational Interviewing Across Behavioural Domains: A Systematic Review
- The Incredible Years: Parent, Teacher And Training Series
- The Effectiveness of Peer Support Systems in Challenging School Bullying: The Perspectives and Experiences of Teachers and Pupils
- Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS)
- Predicting Early Fatherhood and Whether Young Fathers Live with Their Children: Prospective Findings and Policy Reconsiderations
- Lost Opportunities for Intervention: Undetected Markers for the Development of Serious Juvenile Delinquency
- Long-term Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Children's Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: 15-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Life With (or Without) Father: The Benefits of Living with Two Biological Parents Depend on the Father's Antisocial Behaviour
- Families That Care – Guiding Good Choices
- Families in Conflict: perspectives of children and parents on the Family Court Welfare Service
- Early Risers Skills for Success - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (US Department of Health and Human Sciences)
- Early father's and mother's involvement and child's later educational outcomes
- Day Care for Pre-School Children - systematic review
- Childhood Peer Relationship Problems and Later Risks of Educational Under-Achievement and Unemployment
- Bullying Prevention Program
- What Works with Children and Adolescents: A critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents, and their Families: DEPRESSION. pp.203 - 232
- What Works with Children and Adolescents: A critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families: EATING DISORDERS (ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA) pp. 233- 257
- What works with Children and Adolescents: A critical review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families: DRUG ABUSE (pp.155-177)
- What Works with Children and Adolescents: A critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families: CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT (pp. 17 - 48)
- What Works with Children and Adolescents: A critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families. ENURESIS AND ENCOPRESIS (BED-WETTING) (pp. 49 - 65)
- What Works with Children and Adolescents: A critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families, pp. 258 - 279. INTERVENTIONS FOR PAIN RELIEF OF MIGRAINES, ABDOMINAL PAIN ETC
- What Works with Children and Adolescents: A critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families (pp. 280-299): DIVORCE/ PARENTAL SEPARATION
- What Works with Children and Adolescents: A critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families: ANXIETY DISORDERS pp. 178 - 202
- Randomised Trial of a Home-Based Family Intervention for Children who have Deliberately Poisoned Themselves
- Practitioner Review: the Assessment and Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Children and Adolescents
- Intensive Intervention Programs for Children with autism
- Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment and Fire Safety Education for children who Set Fires: Initial and Follow-up Outcomes
- Early Onset Schizophrenia: A Literature Review of Empirically Based Interventions
- Cognitive behaviour therapy in treatment-naïve children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: an open trial
- A systematic review of treatments for settling problems and night waking in young children
- Mapping employment-focused services for disabled people
- The process of field instruction: BSW and MSW students' views of effective field supervision
- Empirical research on social work supervision: The state of the art (1970-1995)
- Outcomes of social care for adults: attitudes towards collecting outcome information in practice
- learning disabilities
- cebss archive
- CEBSS reports
- New Directions? Day Services for people with Learning Disabilities in the 1990s. A review of the Research
- Home Care: Review of Effectiveness and Outcomes
- Quality of Life for people with Learning Disabilities in Supported Housing in the Community: A Review of Research
- Publication of a users in research project part-funded by the Centre for Evidence-based Social Services, and commissioned by Consumers in NHS Research
- Promoting Resilience: A Review of Strategies for Child Care Services
- Buying Time: An Evaluation and Cost Effectiveness Analysis of a Joint Health/ Social Care Residential Rehabilitation Unit for Older People on Discharge from Hospital
- Developing Needs Led Services in One Local Authority: Key Findings. A Report to Gloucestershire Social Services & The Centre for Evidence-Based Social Services
- The User Voice I, II & III: Three qualitative studies of the views of older people concerning rehabilitation services received in hospital, in Social Services/NHS residential rehabilitation units, and at home
- 'Scallywags': An evaluation of a joint agency early intervention project for young children with behavioural and emotional problems
- Helping foster carers to manage challenging behaviour: Evaluation of a cognitive-behavioural training programme for foster carers
- CEBSS research skills
- Accessing social care research
- Ethical issues in research
- Guide to evidence-based practice and decision-making
- Critical appraisal skills
- A step-by-step guide to conducting a survey
- Self-completed questionnaires
- Experimental studies
- Randomised controlled trials
- Quasi-experimental studies
- Single subject designs
- Systematic reviews
- Qualitative research
- Focus groups
- CEBSS newsletters
- CEBSS reports
- resource bank
- publications
- integrated care
- policy updates
- outlines
- key issues
- councillors' briefings
- evidence stories
- evidence clusters
- multimedia
- newsletters
- Dartington review
- evidence clusters
- evidence base
- A multidisciplinary job retention vocational rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic rheumatic diseases: patients' and occupational physicians' satisfaction
- Stress in carers of individuals with dementia and Community Mental Health Teams: an uncontrolled evaluation study
- Interdisciplinary collaboration between primary care, social insurance and social services in the rehabilitation of people with musculoskeletal disorder: Effects on self-rated health and physical performance
- Dynamic role boundaries in intermediate care services
- The feasibility and acceptability of a specialist health and social care team for the promotion of health and independence in 'at risk' older adults
- Systematic review of multidisciplinary interventions in heart failure
- Using pooled budgets to integrate health and welfare services: a comparison of experiments in England and Sweden
- Fully integrated care for frail elderly: two American models
- Integrated service delivery networks for seniors: Early perceptions of family physicians
- Interprofessionality in health and social care: the Achilles' heel of partnership?
- Levels of integration and specialisation within professional community teams for people with dementia
- Findings From an Elder Abuse Forensic Center
- Social work theory, research, policy and practice - challenges and opportunities in health and social care integration in the UK
- Could inter-agency working reduce emergency department attendances due to alcohol consumption?
- Developing multidisciplinary assessment - exploring the evidence from a social care perspective
- For the sake of their health: older service users' requirements for social care to facilitate access to social networks following hospital discharge
- Integrating health and social care in community mental health teams in the UK: a study of assessments and eligibility criteria in England
- Integrated specialist assessment of older people and predictors of care-home admission
- A System of Integrated Care for Older Persons With Disabilities in Canada: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
- A qualitative study of an integrated maternity, drugs and social care service for drug-using women
- The Effect of a Disease Management Intervention on Quality and Outcomes of Dementia Care: A randomized controlled trial
- Care management in mental health services in England and Northern Ireland: do integrated organisations promote integrated practice?
- The challenges of joint working: lessons from the Supporting People Health Pilot evaluation
- Recruitment and follow-up of injecting drug users in the setting of early hepatitis c treatment: insights from the ATAHC study
- Learning to listen to the organisational rhetoric of primary health and social care integration
- Crossing professional and organizational boundaries: The implementation of generic Rehabilitation Assistants within three organizations in the northwest of England
- Impact of a collaborative community case management program on a low-income uninsured population in Sedgwick County, KS
- An exploration of best practice in multi-agency working and the experiences of families of children with complex health needs. What works well and what needs to be done to improve practice for the future?
- Establishing a new service role in tuberculosis care: the tuberculosis link worker
- Health informatics for older people: a review of ICT facilitated integrated care for older people
- Efficacy of a geriatrics team intervention for residents in dementia-specific assisted living facilities: effect on unanticipated transition
- Working across boundaries: clinical outcomes for an integrated mental health service for people with intellectual disabilities
- Buying Time I: a prospective, controlled trial of a joint health/social care residential rehabilitation unit for older people on discharge from hospital
- Buying Time II: an economic evaluation of a joint NHS/Social Services residential unit for older people on discharge from hospital
- Geriatric care management for low-income seniors: A randomised controlled trial
- Interagency collaboration in human services: impact of formalization and intensity on effectiveness
- Networks and governance: the case of intermediate care
- Developing the NICE/SCIE guidelines for dementia care: the challenges of enhancing the evidence base for social and health care
- Improving the quality of care for mild to moderate dementia: an evaluation of the Croydon Memory Service Model
- Explaining Connected Care: community led and fully integrated health, social care and housing services
- An evaluation of a specialist multiagency home support service for older people with dementia using qualitative methods
- Integrated services for older people: building a whole systems approach in England
- Interagency and interprofessional collaboration in community care: the interdependence of structures and values
- Learning from doing: implications of the Barking and Dagenham experience for integrating health and social care
- Creation of a Care Trust: managing the project
- We have to stop meeting like this: the governance of inter-agency partnerships
- Implementing the Single Assessment Process: Opportunities and Challenges
- Evaluating partnerships: a case study of integrated specialist mental health services
- The Integration of Health and Social Care: The Lessons from Northern Ireland
- Organisation and features of hospital, intermediate care and social services in English sites with low rates of delayed discharge
- Trying to do a jigsaw without the picture on the box: understanding the challenges of care integration in the context of single assessment for older people in England
- Partnering through networks: can Scotland crack it?
- Bringing health home: Householder and provider perspectives on the Healthy Housing Programme in Auckland, New Zealand
- Challenges, benefits and weaknesses of intermediate care: results from five UK case study sites
- Older persons' experience of whole systems: the impact of health and social care organisational structures
- Comparing integrated care policy in Europe: Does policy matter?
- Dartington review
- events
- annual events
- learning events
- a day in the life of a ripfa event
- Personalisation and User Engagement
- Evidence-informed Commissioning in Adult Services
- Practicalities and Possibilities
- Provision for Dementia in Extracare Housing
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Developing best practice to ensure effective protection from abuse
- Users as Researchers?
- Involve Us: the Individual Budget Experience
- Market Transformation
- Outcome-based Assessment and Support Plans
- Personalisation Knowledge Fair
- Smooth Transitions
- Occupational Therapy
- Integrated Working: the next 5 years
- Personalisation and BME Communities
