Main description:

People with intellectual disability often experience challenges in their lives. These may be due to difficulties in social adaptation, but may also be related to a reality of disempowerment whereby they have little role in the decisions central to their lives or in the provision of health, educational and social services. This book argues for alternative and innovative approaches to leadership in intellectual disability service provision. It does this in the light of service scandals including Winterborne View (UK), Oswald D. Heck (USA), Aras Attracta (Ireland) and many others. This book also explores the failed leadership issues underpinning such debacles and then examines how the context for intellectual disability service provision has changed. The authors propose alternative models for service leadership that are contiguous with the changed landscape, emphasizing participatory models of leadership and ending with exemplary vignettes outlining situations where such innovative change is happening.

Contents:

Contents

Preface.................................................................................. vii

Acknowledgements............................................................xiii

Contributors........................................................................ xv

Section I BACKGROUND AND CONTE XT

1 Leadership and Intellectual Disability Services.......3

FINTAN SHEERIN

2 Moving Models: Leading Through Constant

Change....................................................................23

RUTH NORTHWAY

Section II LEADERSHIP FOR IMPROVIN G AND ENE RGISIN G

3 Distributed Leadership - An Alternative

Approach for Intellectual Disability?......................47

ELIZABETH A. CURTIS

4 The Role of Leadership and Motivation

During Change.......................................................85

PATRICK RYAN AND MORGAN DANAHER

5 The Psychology of Leadership..............................113

CHRISTINE LINEHAN

Section IIIINNO VATIN G THROUGH CHANGE

6 Beyond Controversy in Change Management?

Rethinking Options for Intellectual Disability

Services.................................................................139

MARTIN BEIRNE

7 Achieving Change Through Grassroots

Education and Leadership....................................163

MARIA PAIEWONSKY AND DEBRA HART

Section IV APPLICATION

8 Leadership in Practice: Four Participatory

Vignettes...............................................................191

COLIN GRIFFITHS

Index .................................................................................. 211