1st Edition
Leadership for Intellectual Disability Service Motivating Change and Improvement
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), Áras 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
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
Biography
Dr. Elizabeth A. Curtis
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dublin,
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Elizabeth is a member of the academic team in the School
of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. She qualified
as a general nurse in London and worked in the discipline
of neurosciences in the National Health Service (NHS).
Her research interests are varied and include job satisfaction
and leadership. Published books include Research Success
in Nursing and Health Care: A Guide to Doing Your Higher
Degree (2008), Delegation: A Short Primer for the Practicing
Nurse (2009), Quantitative Health Research: Issues and Methods
(2013) and Leadership and Change for the Health Professional
(2017). Five years ago, Elizabeth set up a Leadership Network
Group to promote and expand work on leadership in nursing.
Dr. Fintan Sheerin
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dublin,
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Fintan is Associate Professor in and Head of Intellectual
Disability Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery in
Trinity College Dublin. His research has largely focused on
engagement, accessibility and well-being, seeking to address
the issues which impact on both. He leads the mental health
component of IDS-TILDA and is guiding the analysis of data
gathered to date and exploring the future focus of data in that
regard. Fintan is a social activist in respect of various groups
of people who find themselves on the margins of society.
He was the consultant to the Irish RTÉ television documentary,
Inside Bungalow 3, which exposed abuse of people with
an intellectual disability at Áras Attracta leading to successful
prosecutions. He has published widely, spoken at many
international conferences and has contributed to a number of
books. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing
Science.
