The Needs Assessment Service of Family Support and Preparedness with Intellectual Disabilities－A Case of Pingtung Commonalty and Association for Mentally Retarded
| Autor: | Chang Chungming, 張忠銘 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 高階經營管理碩士在職專班(EMBA) 100 This research is intended to examine the needs of family support by individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families. The case study herein is based on the service project of family support care visits executed by Pingtung Commonalty and Association for Mentally Retarded between 2009 and 2011. Professional social workers compiled 4,595 written needs assessment forms from individuals holding intellectual disability handbooks in 33 townships of Pingtung County and entrusted the multiple employment development plan care visitors of the Association to construct computer database and conduct statistical analyses on the total of 1,083 data entries. The purpose is to identify the six major needs of quality of life from needs assessment in order to further examine the pressing needs of family support for families of individuals with intellectual disabilities based on the level of disability and family economic status. The research findings show that the pressing needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families are care services, education and after-school services, health and medical services and financial subsidies. However, financial subsidies are within the realm of government welfare policy so this research cannot provide its support. As a result, the need for financial subsidies is not subject to discussion or analysis of this research. By analyzing the sub-items of the afore-mentioned three needs, psychological counseling (accounting for 71.5% of the sub-item), information provision (accounting for 89.44% of the sub-item), social support (accounting for 39.6% of the sub-item) and telephone check (accounting for 39.6% of the sub-item) are more pressing needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families. There is no significant difference between the level of disability and the needs of family support whereas there is significant difference between the family economic status and the needs of family support. The most significant difference occurs in the need and lack of need for psychological counseling by medium- and low-income families. Due to this, service programs should be formulated to meet the actual needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities, the level of disability, the family economic status and the percentage of individuals in need of the service at the initial planning stage so as to avoid unfair situations of mismanaged resources, and duplicate consumption of resources and further promote the actual effectiveness of family support services for individuals with intellectual disabilities. |
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