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  • Social Work with Marginalised People Who have a Mild or Borderline Intellectual Disability: Practicing Gentleness and Encouraging Hope

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    Author(s)
    Ellem, Kathy
    O'Connor, Morrie
    Wilson, Jill
    Williams, Sue
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Ellem, Kathleen A.
    Year published
    2013
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    People with mild or borderline intellectual disabilities are a group of people who usually do not meet the eligibility criteria for specialist disability services, yet are high users of many generalist services, such as mental health, child protection, and criminal justice systems. They may traverse many services, often entering, exiting, and returning to the same service providers with few positive results. This article explores the practice approach of the Meryton Association, a medium-sized nongovernment agency located in Brisbane, Australia. The Meryton Association provides social work support to people with mild to ...
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    People with mild or borderline intellectual disabilities are a group of people who usually do not meet the eligibility criteria for specialist disability services, yet are high users of many generalist services, such as mental health, child protection, and criminal justice systems. They may traverse many services, often entering, exiting, and returning to the same service providers with few positive results. This article explores the practice approach of the Meryton Association, a medium-sized nongovernment agency located in Brisbane, Australia. The Meryton Association provides social work support to people with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities, actively assisting this group to build relationships, resources, knowledge, and autonomy in their everyday lives. Using qualitative in-depth interviews with Meryton Association staff and secondary analysis of Meryton Association policy and practice documents, the challenges and opportunities of using this practice approach have been documented. The article proposes that specialist services are needed that use a developmental approach, stress the importance of relationship, and the need to practice gentleness and hope in social worker-client interaction.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Social Work
    Volume
    66
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2012.710244
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Taylor & Francis. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Specialist studies in education
    Policy and administration
    Social work
    Counselling, wellbeing and community services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49491
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