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© British Association of Social Workers

Defending Community Care: Can Normalization do the Job?

HELEN SMITH and HILARY BROWN

Helen Smith is Lecturer in Mental Health and Hilary Brown is Senior Lecturer in Learning Difficulties at the Centre for the Applied Psychology of Social Care, University of Kent.

Correspondence to Helen Smith, Lecturer in Mental Health, Centre for the Applied Psychology of Social Care, The University, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7LZ.

Summary

One of the major reasons for the confusion around community care is the lack of an ideology to guide and influence its implementation. Normalization is probably the most relevant theory in this field yet it is riven with contradictions and conflicts. This article examines these conflicts and proposes that normalization needs to develop a perspective on power and powerlessness if it is to respond adequately to the challenges of providing community care in the 1990s.


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