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Enhancing self-esteem: a self-esteem training package for individuals with disabilities
- Authors:
- HAGILIASSIS Nick, GULBENKOGLU Hrepsime
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 125p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd
This book is tailored specifically to meet the needs of adults with disabilities. It is a resource that provides relevant, cognitively-suitable and age-appropriate information and exercises to aid trainers working with adults with physical and multiple disabilities, and is suitable for people with mild intellectual disability and severe communication impairment. The material is designed to be used in 10 two-hour sessions that explore skills that will help to develop and maintain self-esteem. Each session is fully scripted, with comprehensive instructions for the trainer and photocopiable hand-outs.
The anger management project: a group intervention for anger in people with physical and multiple disabilities
- Authors:
- HAGILIASSIS Nick, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 30(2), June 2005, pp.86-96.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Twenty-nine individuals were randomly assigned to an intervention group or a waiting-list comparison group. Individuals were based in the North West or South East Melbourne Metropolitan Region of Australia. The intervention comprised a 12-week anger management program, based on Novaco's (1975) cognitive-behavioural conceptualisation of anger, which incorporates adapted content and pictographic materials developed for clients with a range of disabilities. On completion of the program, clients from the intervention group had made significant improvements in their self-reported anger levels, compared with clients from the comparison group, and relative to their own pre-intervention scores. Treatment effects were maintained at 4-month follow-up. In contrast, there was an absence of measured improvements in quality of life. The results provide evidence for the program's effectiveness as an intervention for anger problems for individuals with a range of disabilities.