scholarly journals The Social Networks of People with Intellectual Disabilities during the On-Campus Supported Adult Education Programme

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minna K. Saarinen ◽  
Markku T. Jahnukainen ◽  
Raija A. Pirttimaa
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

<p>This article describes the social networks of four young people with intellectual disabilities in supported adult education, focusing on their inclusion in school and leisure environments. A multiple case study approach with content analysis was used. Data were collected through interviews with young people and their family members, relationship maps, observation journals and notes from Personal Futures Planning meetings. Relationships with family members, other relatives and neighbours were close. One participant had a friend of her own age with no disabilities. The other three had varying, superficial peer relationships and friends of the family. All the participants had heterogeneous relationship maps and had no difficulties in nominating the people who were important to them. All of them hoped to make friends with peers without disabilities.</p>

scholarly journals Contribution of Entrepreneurship to the Social Integration of People Intellectual Disabilities: A Case Study Based on the Analysis of Social Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Barba-Sánchez ◽  
Yolanda Salinero ◽  
Pedro Jiménez-Estevez ◽  
Esteban Galindo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Analysis Of Social Networks

In an environment characterized by high unemployment rates among people with disabilities, the objective of the present work is to analyze entrepreneurship as a labor option which fully inserts people with intellectual disabilities (PwID) into their societies. In order to carry out this research, a case study methodology based on social network analysis has been adopted, given the nature of the variables analyzed. The results indicate that the fact of having managed to start up the company has been an important source of self-confidence and inspiration, as well as increasing and intensifying the social networks of PwID involved in the entrepreneurial project.

Social networks and personal support from the perspective of young people with intellectual disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Maria Pallisera ◽  
Judit Noell Fullana ◽  
Montserrat Vilà ◽  
Gemma Diaz-Garolera ◽  
Carolina Puyalto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Young People ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Personal Support ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

scholarly journals Role of Narrative and Social Networks in Thwarting Violence and Sexual Abuse in Young People’s Lives

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 2172-2190
Author(s):  
Margareta Hydén ◽  
David Gadd ◽  
Thomas Grund
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Young People ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Intervention

Abstract Combining narrative analysis with social network analysis, this article analyses the case of a young Swedish female who had been physically and sexually abused. We show how she became trapped in an abusive relationship at the age of fourteen years following social work intervention in her family home, and how she ultimately escaped from this abuse aged nineteen years. The analysis illustrates the significance of responses to interpersonal violence from the social networks that surround young people; responses that can both entrap them in abusive relationships by blaming them for their problems and enable them to escape abuse by recognising their strengths and facilitating their choices. The article argues that the case for social work approaches that envision young people’s social networks after protective interventions have been implemented. The article explains that such an approach has the potential to reconcile the competing challenges of being responsive to young people’s needs while anticipating the heightened risk of being exposed to sexual abuse young people face when estranged from their families or after their trust in professionals has been eroded.

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