Creating a homely atmosphere

Australia, 1987

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Designed to introduce the intellectual disability residential care worker to some simple ways of creating a homelike environment in the physical sense with furnishing and decor, how to create a desirable psychological atmosphere through community involvement and high quality staff-resident, staff-staff and resident-resident interactions, an interpretation of the term “normalisation” and how this principle might be applied in a residential setting and the recognition of the individual resident’s rights in what is their home. Accompanied by 32p. in-service training manual.

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Credits

director

Tim Abbott

co-producer

Helen Edwards

Tony Shaddock

production company

Dept of Health, Richmond Implementation Unit

Duration

00:19:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1987

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