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Staff attitudes towards individuals with learning disabilities and AIDS: the role of attitudes towards client sexuality and the issue of mandatory testing for HIV infection
- Authors:
- MURRAY James L., MACDONALD Raymond A.R., MINNES Patricia M.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(4), 1995, pp.321-332.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Investigates staff attitudes towards individuals with learning disabilities and AIDS in combination with staff attitudes towards client sexuality. Two hundred sand forty-six respondents from one organisation in Scotland voluntarily and anonymously returned the nine-item Staff Attitudes Towards Person with Learning Disabilities and AIDS Scale and the Sexuality and Persons with Learning Disabilities Attitude Inventory. Looks at the implications of the findings and discusses future research and limitations of the study.
Menstrual management: the mother's perspective
- Authors:
- CARLSON Glenys, WILSON Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 7(1), 1994, pp.51-63.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Reports the findings of an Australian survey of 30 young women with learning disabilities and high support needs. Analysis of interview data suggested that although menstrual suppression or elimination was often preferred, parental decision-making appeared to be occurring without access to practical support or comprehensive information. Concludes that service provision organisations need to make available information and practical support to young women, their families, and staff members, in the areas of menstrual and fertility management.
Loneliness and social competence among preadolescents and adolescents with mild mental retardation
- Authors:
- MARGALIT Malka, RONEN Tammie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 6(2), 1993, pp.97-111.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Reports on a study whose findings demonstrated that in comparison to the younger group, adolescents received a more reserved acceptance by their peers, although they reported themselves to feel less lonely and showed higher rates of social competence in terms of less behaviour maladjustment and higher empathy and self-control skills.