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Making life work : freedom and disability in a community group home / Jack Levinson.

Title
Making life work : freedom and disability in a community group home / Jack Levinson.
Author
Levinson, Jack, 1965-
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

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Description
xxii, 285 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Group homes for people with mental disabilities > New York (State) > Case studies
  • People with mental disabilities > New York (State) > Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Locating the problem -- Intellectual disability: a brief history -- Governing disability in the community -- The work of everyday life -- How the group home works -- All in a day's work -- Endless, uncertain work -- The clinical problem of everyday life -- Group home technologies -- Expertise and the work of staff meetings -- Paper technologies: doing and documenting -- Goal plans and individual conduct -- At risk -- What everybody knows about Paul -- Conclusion: making life work.
ISBN
  • 9780816650811 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816650810 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816650828 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0816650829 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009016340
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library