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Direct linkO'Brien, John – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2013
Romer and Walker's "Appreciative Inquiry," which obtained input from 16 capable personal assistants, challenges some influential assumptions about personal assistance and opens a way to think about the demanding work of developing capable and committed personal assistants. Attempts to depersonalize the relationship between people…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Helping Relationship, Help Seeking, Severe Disabilities
O'Brien, John – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2007
In this article, the author offers his critique on Holburn and Cea's notion on "excessive positivism" that person-centered planners are overconcerned with scientific verification and logical proof. The author believes that Holburn and Cea's notion blurs the important messages they have for person-centered planners by leading toward a debate about…
Descriptors: Deception, Meetings, Planning, Program Development
Download full textO'Brien, John – 1995
From April 11-14, 1995, the Onondaga Community Living (OCL) organization hosted a team of five visitors sponsored by Syracuse University's Center on Human Policy. OCL provides services to empower and individually support people with developmental disabilities. In investigating the organization's move toward the provision of individual supports in…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Empowerment, Group Homes
O'Brien, John; O'Brien, Connie Lyle – 1993
This discussion of friendship in the lives of people with developmental disabilities raises questions which probe the nature of friendship, friendship between people with and without disabilities, and the special challenges involved in making and keeping friends. First, four dimensions of friendship are identified and discussed: (1) attraction…
Descriptors: Adults, Context Effect, Developmental Disabilities, Friendship
O'Brien, John – 1992
Innovators in supported employment for individuals with severe disabilities have made important conceptual shifts by broadening their understanding of the resources that they assess and organize as they assist a person with a disability to do a competent job. There have been two important shifts in the service perspective in evaluating what it…
Descriptors: Adults, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Potential, Helping Relationship
O'Brien, John; O'Brien, Connie Lyle – 1993
This report discusses basic issues in the provision of residential services for people with developmental disabilities. Main points of the discussion include: (1) the service system for this population is in a crisis of accountability as meeting safety and quality requirements threatens to become counterproductive; (2) the current system is well…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Change Strategies, Civil Liberties
