“Let the people you're supporting be how you learn”: a grounded theory study on quality support from the perspective of disability support workers

M Top**, J Douglas, D Winkler - Disability and Rehabilitation, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Quality disability support is fundamental to the lives of many adults with acquired
neurological disability. However, little is known about the factors that influence the quality of …

“They treat you like a person, they ask you what you want”: a grounded theory study of quality paid disability support for adults with acquired neurological disability

M Top**, J Douglas, D Winkler - Disability and Rehabilitation, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Adults with acquired neurological disability often require paid disability support to
live an ordinary life. However, little is known about what facilitates quality support. This study …

Experiences of Empathy‐Based Stress Among Care Staff Supporting Children and Adolescents With Intellectual Disabilities and/or Autism in Residential and Respite …

R Madden, L Coffey - Health & Social Care in the Community, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Care staff in the disability sector experience high levels of work‐related stress
and burnout, which contribute to high staff turnover and limited residential service capacity …

Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability

C Smyth, KR Fisher, S Robinson… - Social Policy & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
People with disability are at heightened risk of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation
(VANE) with policy geared towards responding to and eliminating VANE harm. Yet not all …

Recasting 'harm'in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers

S Robinson, KR Fisher, A Graham, H Ikäheimo… - Disability & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Policy efforts addressing abuse of people with disability tend to focus on more extreme forms
of violence, sometimes at the expense of attending to everyday indignities and insults …

[HTML][HTML] Young people's lived experience of relational practices in therapeutic residential care in Australia

L McPherson, A Canosa, R Gilligan, T Moore… - Children and Youth …, 2025 - Elsevier
Young people living in therapeutic residential care face major challenges that can prevent
them from forming healthy relationships and connections within the community, which are …

Day service cultures from the perspectives of autistic people with profound learning disabilities

N Redmore - British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Service culture refers to the practices, views and values within service
organisations. Develo** positive cultures has been thought imperative to improving social …

Using the 'in-between'to build quality in support relationships with people with cognitive disability: the significance of liminal spaces and time

S Robinson, E Hall, KR Fisher, A Graham… - Social & Cultural …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In a policy context of personalisation, disability support organisations recognise the
increasingly contentious nature of clustering people according to disability. Instead, they are …

Creating relationship‐based practice in youth employment services—Converting policy intentions to practical program design

A Meltzer, I Ramia, J Moffatt… - Social Policy & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Relationship‐based practice refers to approaches within human services which centralise
inter‐personal relationships—either those between clients and workers or between clients …

Experiences of mental health carers examined using a recovery framework

AWC Poon, L Hofstaetter, S Judd-Lam - Australian Social Work, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Carers are a crucial support in the recovery of people with mental illness in the community.
As they are often severely affected by the impact of mental illness of the person they care for …