Workshops For People Research Articles

Between risk and autonomy: producing subjects in group homes and supervised workshops for people with intellectual disabilities

This study focusses on the question of how the values of autonomy, self-determination, and independence influence people with intellectual disabilities who live in a social world of institutionalized care. It analyses policies and practices – everyday activities. Data collection took place during 240 h of participant observation in three group homes and one workshop for adults with intellectual disabilities in Austria. The analysis demonstrates that these organizations attempt to enhance the status of people cared for to that of an autonomous subject. But this project is failing, as these people do not have the practical knowledge required to fulfil the social demands of reason, responsibility for their actions and their physical integrity, and also to manage household tasks efficiently. Consequently, they assimilate to being dependent subjects. Two risk management strategies support this: everybody should be treated equally, plus the loss of responsibility outside the social world and in medical practices. Points of interest This article compares written guidelines and everyday activities in group homes and supervised workshops for people with intellectual disabilities in Austria. It wants to clarify the connections between everyday activities, disability, society, and personal aims. The written guidelines of institutions for people with intellectual disabilities support the idea that people should become more self-determined and independent. However, everyday activities reveal that in real life, it is more important to keep people safe and well-cared for. This mismatch also becomes visible in a conflict between the ideal that people in group homes should be autonomous and the demand that the caregivers minimize possible health risks. This study recommends accepting that all people are somehow dependent. Further, the aim of belonging to others should receive more attention in group homes and supervised workshops.

(In)capacité au travail ? Organisation et fonctionnement des ateliers pour personnes en situation de handicap en Allemagne

The article elaborates on the emergence of a new social category: the “worker incapable of working”, which has not yet been recognized in the scientific literature. In Germany, people excluded from the labour market are increasingly employed in workshops for people with disabilities due to what is defined as a total incapacity to work. In addition to the objective of labour market participation of people with disabilities, these workshops assume the aim of (re)establishing their performance and monitoring their reintegration into the general labour market. Changes in the profiles of people working in the workshops and their recent expansion are described, as well as the transformation of working processes and conditions, especially through digitalisation. The consequences of these transformations are studied within the framework of “activating” policies.

GOVERNMENT POLICY DIRECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT START UP OF THE ECO DIGITAL MOTION SUPPORT PIONEERS INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS IN NEW NORMAL ERA

The purpose of this study was to determine the strategy and direction of government policies in the development of start-up startups supporting the new normal era of innovative eco-digital products. Through this research, it will be studied how the direction of Government policy in developing startup startups in Indonesia, as well as what government support is in keeping the eco-digital movement of innovative products stable in the new normal era, and what kind of startups can survive during a pandemic and new normal. This research method uses qualitative descriptive and literature studies based on primary data and secondary data from the results of data analysis from pilot business groups, groups of start-up policy makers, community policy users and startup business consumers. The results of the research show that the policy directions that must be the attention of the Indonesian government regarding the development of startups in Indonesia are as follows: Increasing Broadband access; Helping SMEs to switch to the online realm; Expanding the electronic payment system; Expanding access to finance (investment); Extending e-government services; socializing the Job Creation Law, which was recently passed to provide various impacts on the startup business ecosystem; The Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf), currently the government through the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) is trying to build infrastructure to support the presence of startups in Indonesia. BEKuP (Bekraf for pre startup); In collaboration with MIKTI (IT Creative Industry Society) and Telkom Bekraf will hold intensive workshops for people who intend to build startups in 15 big cities; Making the University as a Startup Startup Incubator; Protecting MSME products from Curent Account Deficits (CAD) problems; Disseminating Government Regulation (PP) Number 74 of 2017; Prepare an electronic-based national trade road map (E-Commerce Road Map), hereinafter referred to as the 2017-2019 SPNBE Road Map; Funding programs, taxation, consumer protection, education and human resources (HR). Also communication infrastructure, logistics, cybersecurity, and the establishment of the SPNBE Roadmap implementing management; The government cuts the final PPh by 0.5% for MSMEs. Also through PMK Number 150, 2018, this digital industry can get income reduction incentives (PPh) or tax holidays; Facilitating creative ideas, innovations, originality ideas, and not end users through Grant activities and competitions in various aspects of local creative endeavors, academic research and technology; Provide liquidity, guarantee LPS Deposit insurance agency to owners of capital; Prepare financing in the technology sector. Prepare a law on the national knowledge and technology system; Evaluating educational curricula with graduate expertise, especially in tertiary and senior secondary education as well as developing research at universities.

Health Care Use by Intellectually Disabled People: A Cross-Sectional Study in three Sheltered Workshops

People with intellectual disabilities have a lower life expectancy and more frequent comorbidities than the general population and have unmet health needs. Insufficient medical care is suspected to be one reason, for which little data is available in Germany. The study therefore focuses on the question of how people with intellectual disabilities make use of medical care, including screening and preventive measures. In a cross-sectional study in 3 workshops for people with intellectual disabilities, the use of health care was surveyed by means of questionnaires from their relatives. The evaluation was carried out descriptively and by means of inferential statistics comparing participants with the general population as well as within the group of participants for socio-demographic differences. Almost all 181 participants (participation rate 19.3%) had a family doctor. In comparison to the general population, the participants made more frequent use of the services of general practitioners and the care provided by numerous other specialist areas. They made less frequent use of screening for colon, breast, cervix and prostate and more frequent use for skin cancer and general check-up. Dental check-ups and preventive measures showed no difference. Participants living in institutional settings made more use of the regular services than those living with relatives or alone. Participants with a migration background were less aware of care services. The results do not show any indications of a general undersupply of health care. Participation in cancer screening with more complex examinations should be encouraged, especially for people with mental disabilities living alone or with relatives. Those with a migration background and their families should be specifically informed.

Experiencias radiofónicas con personas con discapacidad intelectual y parálisis cerebral en España

La radio es el medio de comunicacion que mayor visibilidad puede dar a los colectivos en situacion de exclusion social, y es tambien una herramienta que motiva la participacion y contribuye al desarrollo integral de muchas personas, entre ellas, las que presentan alguna discapacidad intelectual o del desarrollo. En este trabajo se ha llevado a cabo una revision y actualizacion de la base de datos de talleres de radio para personas con DI actualmente activos en Espana, a fecha de 2017, a traves de los dos principales colectivos que representan a estas personas: la Confederacion Espanola de Organizaciones a favor de las Personas con Discapacidad Intelectual (FEAPS) –hoy Plena inclusion–, plataforma que integra mas de 800 asociaciones en todo el pais, e incorporando la oferta de los talleres de la Confederacion Espanola de Federaciones y Asociaciones de Atencion a las personas con Paralisis Cerebral y Afines (Confederacion ASPACE), que agrupa a unas 80 entidades en 17 comunidades autonomas. El resultado ofrece una foto fija de la estructura, funcionamiento y caracteristicas de 53 proyectos radiofonicos en los que participan cerca de 500 personas con discapacidad intelectual.

Impact of creative workshops for people with severe mental health problems: art as a means of recovery

Background:In line with recovery theories, psychosocial programmes for people diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) should focus more on well-being and social connectivity outcomes rather than clinical symptoms. This paper assesses the impact of creative workshops participation on the psychological well-being, social connectivity and subjective experience of people diagnosed with SMI.Method: After participating in a creative workshop in a museum, 19 people, including service users, keyworkers, the art facilitator and a psychologist were interviewed. Four observers participated in the workshop and provided information about the creative process by means of a discussion group. Data were analysed in accordance with thematic analysis methodology and triangulated in order to obtain reliability.Results: Five essential categories were identified: learning process, social connection, psychological well-being, institutional change and mutual recovery.Conclusions: Creative activities may cause a transformation of the image of dysfunction associated with mental illness as well as promoting health and recovery.

Creative community workshops for people living with dementia

Group activity sessions can help people to enjoy being part of a vibrant community. In this article Katy Hirst describes how community workshops operate and the vast differences they can make to quality of life for older people living with dementia

A DESFIGURAÇÃO DO ROSTO-DEFICIENTE: OU DA POTÊNCIA DO CORPO EM FLUXO CRIATIVO ARTÍSTICO

Este artigo problematiza representações do corpo-deficiente, desde o diálogo com pensadores como Deleuze e Guattari. Constitui-se num ensaio produzido a partir dos trabalhos do grupo Perspectivas em Movimento, que oferece oficinas de arte para pessoas com deficiências diversas, com o propósito de fazer variar as políticas hegemônicas de sentido que resultam no discurso da inclusão. Objetiva questionar a invenção do corpo-deficiente, ou Rosto-deficiente, enquanto objeto das ciências da saúde, e a consequente produção de subjetividades fixadas pelo modelo médico. Para tanto, parte do corpo da pessoa com deficiência, quando em fluxo criativo artístico, para pôr à mostra políticas de forças que investem na disjunção exclusiva (binária) - doença/saúde, feiúra/beleza, eficiência/deficiência-, fundamento moral do preconceito e da discriminação. As primeiras observações indicam que quando em variação, o corpo-deficiente atualiza-se como corpo-potência.

障害者自立支援法への抵抗戦略

本稿は東京都U区を事例地域に，障害者自立支援法施行後，精神障害者を対象とする作業所の新サービスへの移行状況とその利用実態に関する質的調査を行った．その上で，国家レベルの福祉施策の転換が地域レベルの障害者福祉サービス供給に及ぼした影響を，作業所という「ケア空間」の場が果たす役割に関連付けて考察した．その結果，移行先が就労継続支援B型のサービスに集中し，その一因に実際には就労支援に消極的な旧共同作業所が含まれており，「なんちゃってB」を自称していることがあると明らかになった．これらの事業者は，就労が困難な利用者のニーズに対応する一方で，経営基盤が安定する就労継続支援B型を選択して作業所の存続を図っている．自称「なんちゃってB」の出現は，障害者の自己責任を志向し，就労自立に傾倒した新制度に抵抗するための事業者の戦略であり，その結果旧共同作業所は，従前と変わらず精神障害者の居場所として機能している．

The birth and early growth of a comprehensive multidisciplinary diabetes center in a community hospital: The Bildirici Center for Diabetes Care and Research at Laniado Hospital

Diabetes is a multisystem disorder. Diabetes care is a multidisciplinary process. The Bildirici Center for Diabetes Care and Research opened its doors to its first patients in August 2007, as the first center in Israel to offer comprehensive integrated multidisciplinary care for people with diabetes. In addition to direct patient care, the Center has organized courses, lectures and workshops for people with diabetes, as well as for professionals caring for people with diabetes and for the general community. The ability of individuals within different departments to develop and implement such a center may have been facilitated by the smallness of our institution and the familiarity they share as a result. We have shown how a community hospital, without ties to a major medical center or academic institution, can establish a multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient diabetes center, the first of its kind in a country.

Health promotion and work: prevention of shift work disorders in companies

Workplace health promotion is a strategy to improve the health and well-being of people at work. The measures aim at the personal, organisational and work environment. Shift work is one of many reasons provoking increased job stress. According to worldwide epidemiological data, up to 30% of the working population are employed in shifts. Taking into consideration that shift work causes a large number of somatic and psychiatric diseases which bear considerable negative consequences for the health status and the quality of life, it seems to be important to initiate health promotion strategies for shift workers in the companies. The results of recent studies indicate that well-scheduled und targeted health programmes can change the lifestyle of shift working employees and have an impact on the risk factors involved. One problem, though, is a considerable time lag till effects become apparent; therefore, the long-term economic effects of workplace health promotion have not been evaluated sufficiently to date. These definitely positive effects highlight the demand for trainings and workshops for people in shift work. We urgently suggest a speedy implementation of the recommended strategies by companies with shift work systems. In our view, this poses a challenge to the “infant” interdisciplinary field of sleep medicine that should be solved.

Accessible Wellness Workshops at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

In this article the authors explore the roles of museums in promoting wellness within the context of their mandates to be accessible to everyone. They describe a series of workshops for people with disabilities that have been conducted for nearly two decades as part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Accessible Programs. In these workshops, participants have opportunities to develop their observational, technical, and aesthetic decision-making skills. The authors present strategies that enable people with cognitive, social, and physical disabilities to participate fully in making art. They discuss the benefits of their accessible program from the points of view of different stakeholders and address the factors that are important to the success of the workshops. The design of this program can serve as a guide for museums that are exploring their evolving role in promoting accessibility for a growing number of groups in their communities.

Stress workshops for people with learning disabilities

Stress workshops for people with learning disabilities

‘If only I'd known about this years ago stress and time management workshops for people recovering from mental illness

Abstract This paper, in reporting a series of successful workshops in stress and time management offered to people recovering from mental illness considers reasons why such training can be helpful. The membership and content of the workshops, as well as consumer feedback are described and discussed. The suggestion is that such training could become part of social work practice.

Have we met?

Over 160 adults attending day workshops for people with mental handicap were interviewed regarding the persons they had talked to in the community and who was usually with them on these occasions. The number of community contacts was heartening, with most occurring around the neighbourhood, fewer in the city, and least of all at home. However, there were only three groups of people with whom the majority of respondents had recent contact – local shopkeepers, bus conductors, and chemists. In general, community contacts were rarely in the company of friends – cinema‐going was the only exception. Usually they were with their family, or alone.Results from surveys of this type can help to establish the effectiveness of our social education programmes, can challenge parental assumptions about their son or daughter's abilities, and can identify groups within the community who would best benefit from guidance on how to interact with a person who is mentally handicapped.