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On the 17th August 2010, CDS hosted a Quality of Life workshop with Roy Brown
Quality of life has become a dynamic yet sometimes misunderstood development in the field of support and care.
This workshop is a lecture discussion presentation covering the development and application of quality of life concepts and principles in individual and family quality of life.
The presentations examine some of the major successes and challenges in such approaches. The workshop also provides opportunity to discuss and focus on their importance in the context of professional and ethical issues confronting practitioners in their work, along with some of the resulting challenges for policy makers and managers.
Professor Roy I. Brown PhD, FIASSID
Professor Roy Brown is a psychologist who has practiced and carried out research and application in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. He has worked in clinical practice, and has directed support and intervention programs.
Roy has, with colleagues, designed and implemented community and social rehabilitation programs, including academic and professional programs in the field of disabilities across the life span in the UK, Canada and Australia.
Professor Emeritus at Flinders University, Australia and also University of Calgary, Canada, he holds, in addition, adjunct appointments at several other universities.
Since the 1980s his major publications have been on quality of life and family quality of life where he is recognised as one of the founders of these approaches to disability. He believes in the application of quality of life at the cutting edge of practice across the lifespan involving people with developmental disabilities, their families and frontline professional. He has recently written about some of the professional and ethical issues in this context.
He is Past Chair of the Quality of life Special Interest Research Group of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual disability (IASSID). More recently he was appointed as the founding director and chair of the IASSID Academy, which provides workshops in various countries, particularly in the poorer economic areas of the world. He consults to and lectures for a variety of organizations around the world on research to practice and in this context stresses the importance of every day life activities in developing and enriching individual lives.
Roy has been awarded the Order of the University of Calgary for his services to “the University and Canada, nationally and internationally”. More recently he received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Gent for scientific contributions to Disability Studies.
The format for this workshop includes:
- Presentation - Individual quality of life – its development, concepts and challenges in Practice
- Discussion
- Presentation - Family quality of life – its development and challenges
- Discussion
- Presentation - Professional and ethical issues relating to practice, management and policy
- Small group discussion relating to the above presentations including consideration of scenarios
- Open discussion involving whole group
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