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Winterbourne - why it happened and how to prevent it happening again.
- Author:
- COTTIS Tamsin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 26(4), 2013, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Respond has been commissioned by the Department of Health to provide support for the patients abused in Winterbourne View Hospital. The author describes how Respond is looking forward to playing their part in preventing such scandals ever happening again. (Publisher abstract)
Witnessing, nurturing, protecting: therapeutic responses to sexual abuse of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- CORBETT Alan, COTTIS Tamsin, MORRIS Stephen
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 112p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Focuses on the long term consequences of sexual abuse experienced by people with learning difficulties and highlights practical and creative responses that facilitate healing and recovery. Uses case examples to illustrate models and therapy practice and looks at the following: identifying vulnerability; strategies for providing support; long term consequences and effects of sexual abuse; responding to disclosure; resources; creative work techniques; and support for workers.