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A group treatment for men with intellectual disabilities who sexually offend or abuse
- Authors:
- ROSE John, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(2), 2002, pp.138-150.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes a group intervention for men with an intellectual disability who have sexually offended or abuse others. The group was in response to referrals to psychology department. The majority of these individuals had not subject to legal proceedings. Attitudes consistent with offending reduced after participation for most participants, however, these tended to revert to pre-group levels over time. Knowledge tended to increase after the group, however, problems with the questionnaire used made interpretation of the results difficult. No further incidents of sexual abuse have been recorded by any of the five group members who completed the group.
Group and individual cognitive behavioural interventions for anger
- Authors:
- ROSE John, ROSE David
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, 3(4), December 2009, pp.45-50.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
There is growing evidence for the positive effect of anger treatment programmes, which aim to reduce aggression in people with learning disabilities. Provided in both group and individual formats, the differential efficacy of these approaches has yet to be assessed. This paper studies 62 individuals with learning disabilities and inappropriately expressed anger, and these individual were assigned to either group or individual treatment or a waiting list control, depending on the availability of treatment options – 23 participants completed group treatment, 18 received individual treatment, and 21 were included in a waiting list control group. Assessed both before and after treatment using anger provocation inventory, the participant’s results are examined by the authors. Improvements were found in the scores obtained from the anger inventory for both group and individual treatments, compared to the control group, using statistical analysis. There was no particular difference between the group treatments or individual treatments. These results, replicating previous findings, suggest that both group and individual cognitive behavioural interventions are effective treatment options for people with learning disabilities, but do not support either method of delivery in preference to the other. Limitations of the data are also discussed by the authors.