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Green light for guidelines
- Authors:
- CRAFT Ann, KITSON Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.4.94, 1994, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Nottinghamshire has formulated and introduced procedural guidelines for adults with learning difficulties who, it is suspected, are being abused. Looks at how effective the guidelines have been.
People with learning disabilities at risk of physical or sexual abuse: proceedings of two workshops in Bristol and Birmingham and a national conference at the Royal Society of Medicine during 1992
- Editors:
- HARRIS John, CRAFT Ann
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 173p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Paper 1 provides an overview of current knowledge on sexual abuse of children and young people. Paper 2 establishes the incidence of abuse in services for people with learning difficulties. Subsequent papers go on to look at: the relationship between the perpetrator and victim; supporting survivors; working with people with learning difficulties who have been sexually abused; treatment; the law's contribution to protecting people with learning disabilities from physical and sexual abuse; and an agenda for action for protecting people at risk.
Practice issues in sexuality and learning disabilities
- Editor:
- CRAFT Ann
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 277p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Designed as a practical guide for all those who work in services for people with learning difficulties. Includes chapters on: understanding and responding to difficult sexual behaviour; sex education in a multiracial society; sexual abuse of people with learning difficulties; HIV/AIDS and safe sex; enhancing parenting skills; and a case study of work with a pregnant woman with severe learning difficulties.