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Staff in services for people with learning disabilities: an overview of current issues
- Authors:
- HATTON Chris, EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(4), 1996, pp.215-236.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Despite the obvious importance of high quality staff performance for achieving the aims of community care policy, it is only recently that attention in the UK has begun to be focussed on staffing issues in services for people with learning disabilities. Discusses possible reasons for this increase in activity and introduces the content of the issue - which concentrates on demonstrating the range of approaches currently being used in UK research concerning staff in-services for people with learning disabilities.
The development of a shortened 'ways of coping' questionnaire for use with direct care staff in learning disability services
- Authors:
- HATTON Chris, EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(4), 1995, pp.237-251.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Reports on the development of the Shortened Ways of Coping (Revised) Questionnaire (SWC-R), a measure of staff coping strategies designed to be easily administered and scored in work settings. The reliability of the SWC-R was evaluated by administering questionnaires containing SWC-R to direct care staff in four learning disability services and, in attempt to explore issues of validity, measures of social desirability, distress, overall job satisfaction, overall life satisfaction, and propensity to leave the organisation. Discusses the results and recommends further use of the SWC-R in research concerning direct care staff in human services.
Inter-informant agreement on the motivation assessment scale: another failure to replicate
- Authors:
- THOMPSON Sarah, EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(3), 1995, pp.203-208.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Evaluates the inter-informant agreement on the Motivation Assessment Scale across 42 topographies of challenging behaviour in five children with severe intellectual disabilities. The results revealed unacceptably low levels of inter-informant agreement on the purported behavioural function of the rated challenging behaviours.
Self-injurious behaviour: an overview of recent trends in epidemiological and behavioural research
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 5(1), 1992, pp.49-81.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Reviews and discusses three aspects: basing interventions on an analysis of underlying causes, the functional displacement and communication hypothesis, and the debate about the acceptability and effectiveness of aversive treatment.