Download or read book Quality Enhancement in Developmental Disabilities written by Valerie J. Bradley and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As person-centered services and supports become more prevalent, people with disabilities are enjoying more choices and opportunities - making it challenging to ensure the quality of every service offered. This timely book helps meet that challenge. Diverse contributors, including researchers, care providers, policy-makers, self-advocates, and family members, combine their expertise to help readers understand the changed expectations of people with disabilities and their families - and the resulting challenges to quality enhancement clarify the roles of Medicaid and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services address health and safety issues, including investigation of abuse, neglect, and death design databases that track outcomes and target areas for service improvement translate quality information into reliable quality enhancement approaches manage staffing challenges like recruitment, retention, and professional development consider future recommendations and policy directions Building on Bradley & Bersani's Quality Assurance for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, this important resource clarifies the shift toward self-determination and individually tailored supports - and shows professionals in the human services field how to enhance service quality in this rapidly changing world.

Download or read book Setting the Standards for the Future written by Susan R. Seibert and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quality Enhancement Program written by Kansas. Mental Health and Retardation Services and published by . This book was released on 1994* with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quality Assurance for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities written by Valerie J. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enhancing the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities written by Ralph Kober and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a series of articles, written by international experts in the fields of intellectual disability and quality of life, that explore a broad range of issues that impact on the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. The book commences with a general discussion on defining quality of life and family quality of life and the appropriateness of using these constructs in the field of intellectual disability, and is followed by an analysis on the effects of living arrangements and employment on quality of life. The book concludes with discussions on the unique issues facing children with intellectual disabilities and people living in developing countries and the effect these issues have upon their quality of life.

Download or read book Quality Enhancement Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organizational Behavior Management and Developmental Disabilities Services written by Dennis H. Reid and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Behavior Management and Developmental Disabilities Services: Accomplishments and Future Directions examines the advances of Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) in human service agencies for individuals with developmental disabilities. Management researchers, working managers, and supervisors will learn strategies for effectively managing the day-to-day work performance of personnel and receive ideas for further enhancement of quality supports in human service agencies. Discussing the history of OBM and future research needs, Organizational Behavior Management and Developmental Disabilities Services offers the information you need to boost staff morale, make your workers more effective, and improve services to clients. This book contains informative training and supervision procedures that can be used in a variety of settings, such as large residential agencies, small community living arrangements, early intervention programs, and schools and related day treatment settings. Organizational Behavior Management and Developmental Disabilities Services provides you with research and techniques that will improve personal and staff effectiveness, including: expanding the scope of OBM interventions in developmental disability organizations by integrating total quality management (TQM) approaches (systems analysis, team effectiveness, measurement of consumer responses, and data analysis) into quality improvement keeping residential organizations focused on consumers by adopting short-term goals geared to the immediate benefits for clients using OBM frameworks, such as observing, analyzing, and implementing services, to help specialists involved in early intervention (EI) programs gain further insight into OBM and its relevance to EI teaching and maintaining skills, such as goal setting and keeping records of progress, for middle managers to improve services in community living settings educating professional staff, not just direct service staff, through videoptapes of sessions, preservice training, and verbal feedback to improve effectiveness in applied settings increasing acceptability of OBM procedures to service systems staff by improving acceptability assessment methodology, developing guidelines for implementing effective OBM procedures, and involving supervisory and professional staff in acceptability evaluations Organizational Behavior Management and Developmental Disabilities Services offers numerous reviews of case studies, providing you with current research and past trends that indicate the successes and failures of OBM and how efficient methods can be used in different areas of human services. Containing graphs and concise charts that summarize research findings, Organizational Behavior Management and Developmental Disabilities Services will help you and your staff implement OBM methods that will improve your effectiveness and better serve clients with developmental disabilities.

Download or read book Challenges for a Service System in Transition written by Mary F. Hayden and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Change Strategies to Assist Agencies in Developing Supported Living Services for People with Developmental Disabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Delivering Quality Healthcare for People With Disability written by Suzanne C. Smeltzer and published by Sigma Theta Tau. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability is a universal aspect of the human experience. It will affect all of us, either directly or indirectly, at some point in our lives. Healthcare professionals frequently provide care for and communicate with people who have disability. Many care providers have acknowledged that additional education would help them deliver optimal evidence-based care. The educational gap has broad implications and repercussions for the care of this population. Delivering Quality Healthcare for People With Disability provides a road map for nurses, nursing students, and other healthcare professionals to deliver quality healthcare for individuals with dis-ability. From social determinants of health to disability models to an understanding of different types of disability, author Suzanne Smeltzer helps nurses take the lead in redefining education and addressing the needs of people with disability.

Download or read book Ensuring Quality and Accessible Care for Children with Disabilities and Complex Health and Educational Needs written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children with disabilities and complex medical and educational needs present a special challenge for policy makers and practitioners. These children exhibit tremendous heterogeneity in their conditions and needs, requiring a varied array of services to meet those needs. Uneven public and professional awareness of their conditions and a research base marked by significant gaps have led to programs, practices, and policies that are inconsistent in quality and coverage. Parents often have to navigate and coordinate, largely on their own, a variety of social, medical, and educational support services, adding to the already daunting financial, logistical, and emotional challenges of raising children with special needs. The unmet needs of children with disabilities and complex medical and educational needs can cause great suffering for these children and for those who love and care for them. To examine how systems can be configured to meet the needs of children and families as they struggle with disabilities and complex health and educational needs, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in December 2015. The goal of the workshop was to highlight the main barriers and promising solutions for improving care and outcome of children with complex medical and educational needs. Workshop participants examined prevention, care, service coordination, and other topics relevant to children with disabilities and complex health and educational needs, along with their families and caregivers. More broadly, the workshop seeks actionable understanding on key research questions for enhancing the evidence base; promoting and sustaining the quality, accessibility, and use of relevant programs and services; and informing relevant policy development and implementation. By engaging in dialogue to connect the prevention, treatment, and implementation sciences with settings where children are seen and cared for, the forum seeks to improve the lives of children by improving the systems that affect those children and their families. This publications summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Download or read book Quality Enhancement and Review Process written by Council on Quality and Leadership in Supports for People with Disabilities (Towson, Md.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Council conducts its international quality enhancement work through the development of standards of quality; development and dissemination of materials; the provision of training, consultation and technical assistance; and the operation of an accreditation program. The Council conducts its quality enhancement work both directly and through collaborative agreements and partnerships with other organisations, systems and coalitions, both public and private.'

Download or read book Handbook of Positive Psychology in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities written by Karrie A. Shogren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook examines the wide-ranging applications of positive psychology in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. It discusses the change in perceptions of disability and the shifting use of traditional deficit-based treatments. It presents evidence-based approaches and strategies that promote individuals’ strengths and capacities and as well as provide supports and services to enhance quality of life. Chapters address medical and psychological aspects in intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as mindfulness, motivation, physical well-being, and self-regulation. The book also discusses uses of assessment practices in evaluating interventions and client outcomes. In addition, it explores ways practitioners, with positive psychology, can focus on what a person is capable of achieving, thereby leading to more effective approaches to care and treatment. Topics featured in the Handbook include: Translating the quality of life concept into practice. The Casual Agency Theory and its implications for understanding self-determination. The Mindfulness-Based Individualized Support Plan (MBISP) and its use in providing support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The unique role that friendship plays to people’s lives and social well-being. Supported Decision-Making (SDM) as an alternative to guardianship. A positive psychology approach to aging and retirement. The Handbook of Positive Psychology in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in clinical child and school psychology, behavioral therapy, social work, applied behavioral analysis, recreational therapy, occupational therapy, education, speech and language pathology, psychiatry, clinical medicine, and nursing.

Download or read book Quality of Life and Disability written by Ivan Brown and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors apply ideas about quality of life to the field of disability to assist front-line professionals, managers and policy-makers in effective service provision. They examine the historical context of the concept of quality of life and discuss the application of quality of life in the daily lives of people who have disabilities.

Download or read book Division on Developmental Disabilities written by Indiana. Division of Developmental Disabilities and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Standards for Services for People with Developmental Disabilities written by Accreditation Council on Services for People with Developmental Disabilities and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quality of Life for People with Intellectual and Other Developmental Disabilities written by Robert L. Schalock and published by American Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of quality of life and personal outcomes -- Quality domains and indicators -- Measuring personal outcomes: an information collection process -- Managerial strategies: opening the doors inward -- Personal outcome measures: values and metrics for an integrated management system -- Rationale for systems-level performance indicators that reflect personal outcomes -- Considerations in developing performance indicators at the macro level -- How do I use performance indicator data? -- Reframing quality and rethinking quality improvement -- Emerging challenges and opportunities.