Decision making in disability
A paper by Dr Paul A. Bartolo, entitled "Naturalistic decision-making
task processes in multiprofessional assessment of disability," has been
published in the latest issue of the Journal of School Psychology, (Vol.
39(6), pp. 499-519) by the Society for the Study of School Psychology of
the USA. The paper was based on Bartolo's doctoral research and is coauthored
by Prof Julie Dockrell and Prof Ingrid Lunt from the University of London.
It was first presented at the VI European Congress of Psychology in Rome.
The Editorial of the same journal highlighted its methodology in describing
the process of group decision making: "Their methods, which involve a means
of organising and coding decision-making behaviours and interactions, illustrate
for readers a potentially useful method for collecting data on complex
social decision making as well as provide results suggesting how decision-making
processes and results are constrained by input conditions and the nature
of the context in which they are made." Another paper by Dr Bartolo
on "Communicating a diagnosis of developmental disability to parents: multiprofessional
negotiation frameworks" has been published in the latest issue of the UK
medical journal Child: Care, Health and Development, (Vol.28(1), pp. 65-71).
A third paper by Dr Bartolo on "How disciplinary and institutional orientation
influences professionalsí decision-making about early childhood disability"
was recently published in the journal of Educational and Child Psychology,
(Vol. 18(2), pp. 88-106) of the British Psychological Society.
14 February, 2002