Good
and Bad Practice
features of good and bad practice highlighted by research
Good practice
- Liking the family
- Long-term commitment
- Practical assistance
- Mobilisation of
community
- Understanding parents'
feelings
- Close integration
of supports
- Independent advice/advocacy
Bad practice
- Book knowledge
only
- No continuity in
services
- Undermining the
parents
- Shifting the blame
- Inappropriate standards
- Undervaluing families
- Unwarranted intervention
- Taking advantage
- Playing on parents'
fears
- Gender bias
- Not being there
 'For
better, for worse: professionals, practice and parents with learning
difficulties', in T. Philpot and L. Ward (eds.), Values and Visions:
Changing Ideas in Services for People with Learning Difficulties,
London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1995, 290-303.
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