2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Case management for the person with disability and empowernment model

Research Project

Project/Area Number	14402004
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	海外学術
Research Field	社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research Institution	Hanazono University (2003-2004) Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Human Service Center (2002)
Principal Investigator	YUKO Mita Hanazono University, Dept. of Social Work, assistant Prof., 社会福祉学部, 講師 (20261208)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	KEIKO Mishina Hanazono University, Dept. of Social Work, assistant Prof., 社会福祉学部, 助教授 (50340469) FUKUTOMI Masaki Hanazono University, Dept. of Social Work, assistant Prof., 社会福祉学部, 助教授 (10300237)
Project Period (FY)	2002 – 2004
Keywords	disability / empowerment / case management / person-centered / community-based living / normalization / support / self advocacy
Research Abstract	Case-management for the people with disabilities is one of the most effective way to improve their self-determination, self-advocacy and social skill in the community. However in our country, residential institution for the people with disabilities is still increasing against normalization principle. On the other hand, all residential institution have closed in Sweden by the end of 2000. Case-management is a key concept to support and improve community-based living and it helped a lot if the case-management is designed by person-centered thinking. People with disabilities who is participating "Personal future planning" in Minnesota, USA feel confidence and self-esteem through the program. To create empowerment model case-management, self advocacy and person-centered policy are both important. In England the person with mental disabilities answered to our question that case-management is the support skill not only for medical needs but for the social living. It shows that case-management skill shows how direct care staff meet people with disabilities and communicate with them. We believe even in Japan case-management have much power to encourage both people with disabilities and staff in the community.