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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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
306539
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Mentally handicapped
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)