Families can be overloaded by too many proactitioners
Primary Interventionist in the Team Around the Child Approach
By Peter Limbrick. 2018
Extract:
“Long-term stress and strain in families can surely contribute to later mental ill-health for children, parents and other close family members. These m
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--- vulnerable service users have no voice or power in vertical hierarchies ---
Horizontal Teamwork in a Vertical World: Exploring interagency collaboration and people empowerment
By Peter Limbrick. 2012.
From back cover:
We have constant reminders of how hospitals, schools, care
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--- multiagency, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary ---
New book: Integration Made Possible
A practical manual for joint working
By Peter Limbrick 2020
From the Introduction
“This Manual takes the widest possible interpretation of integration from joint working between the major
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--- it comes down to a matter of survival. ‘We will surely die if we stay here so...’ ---
Editorial: There is an imbalance in the world with interconnected factors including climate change, disparities in income levels, access to water, availability of land for growing food, acces
It is wrong to assume parents have to be exhausted and stressed
Early Childhood Intervention without Tears: Improved support for infants with disabilities and their families
By Peter Limbrick. 2017
In this book, Peter Limbrick suggests a significant reconfiguration or reframing of early
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A guide to help professionals support parents in bringing up their child
Bringing up babies and young children who have very special needs: A 21st century guide for parents, students and new practitioners
By Peter Limbrick. 2019.
A recent review. Extract: “The book is particularly useful for parents
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...parents are denied a voice and service managers lose the grounding and dynamism that parents would have brought to the table...
Quoting from the Introduction:
“TAC (the Team Around the Child model) has been designed to meet the particular support needs of babies and young children who have
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The article begins:
“I feel like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz when she awakens and finds herself in a whole new wor
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Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011