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Person‐Centred Planning or Person‐Centred Action? A Response to the Commentaries
Author(s) -
Mansell Jim,
BeadleBrown Julie
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 1360-2322
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2004.00176.x
Subject(s) - action (physics) , task (project management) , intellectual disability , psychology , white paper , scale (ratio) , public relations , social psychology , applied psychology , political science , management , economics , law , physics , quantum mechanics , psychiatry
This paper responds to four commentaries on our original paper in this issue. We respond to issues raised under three headings addressing the scale of the task envisaged in the 2001 White Paper Valuing People , the feasibility and effectiveness of individual planning and how to achieve person‐centred action. We conclude that there is substantial agreement about the goals of intellectual disability services and the processes that need to take place around individuals to help them get what they need and want. We disagree about whether person‐centred planning will deliver this, and about whether it will provide a robust basis for claiming and defending the resources people with intellectual disabilities will need in the future.