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A recipe for pioneering research
- Author:
- HEGARTY John R.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 9(1), July 1995, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Describes the M.A in Community Care at Keele University, for many years the only post-graduate course in learning disability in Britain.
Training staff to work in community care services
- Authors:
- PAHL Jan, ROOSE Gillian
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Centre for Health Services Studies
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 22p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Presents the results from a study which assessed the induction training course provided for staff working in a community living project for people with mental handicaps in Kent.
Mental health services for people with intellectual disability in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- PERERA Bhathika, COURTENAY Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 12(3-4), 2018, pp.91-98.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: Services for people with intellectual disabilities in the UK have evolved over the years from hospital-based care to more community provision. There are multiple reasons for these changes, however, often it was due to changes in social policy or following a scandal in provision. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach: Providing services to meet the health and social care needs of people with intellectual disabilities is well-established in the four countries of the UK with support from legislation. There are often specialist mental health and social care teams. Dedicated professionals work with people with intellectual disabilities who experience mental health problems with a focus on support in the community. A range of services for children and adults and for offenders exist across the UK that often vary in composition and structure. Findings: The challenges in providing mental health services for children and adults with intellectual disabilities in the future include recruitment and training of the workforce with the remit of enhancing community support and reduced in-patient care. Practical implications: This paper helps the reader to understand how ID mental health services are organised in the UK. Originality/value: This paper gives a summary of the ID mental health services in the UK. Even though there are various papers looking at different aspects of mental health services for people with ID in the UK, this paper brings all that information together to help reader get a better understanding of the mental health services for people with ID. (Publisher abstract)
Planning for people: developing a local service for people with mental handicap. 1, Recruiting and training staff
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Pagination:
- 99p.,bibliog.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Managing challenging behaviour in the community: methods and results of interactive staff training
- Authors:
- GENTRY Malcolm, ICETON John, MILNE Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 9(3), May 2001, pp.143-150.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Article describes the application of a practical interactive staff training approach with 101 staff, featuring the use of focused and experiential learning in teams. Found that the course was socially acceptable to the participants, led to a significant improvement in their knowledge of nonphysical methods, and resulted in written guidelines for managing their own client's challenging behaviour. Furthermore, agreements were clarified on how these guidelines would be implemented by each team following training. Implications are drawn for improved evaluation of this promising training programme, including developing the measures of learning and adding a generalisation assessment.
Mental health and learning disability
- Authors:
- CARPENTER David, TURNBULL John, KAY Alan
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 81p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Open learning module. Part 1 introduces the principles of mental health nursing, exploring some of the complex philosophical, social and professional issues around mental health services. Part 2 introduces similar topics related to learning difficulties.
Training for staff caring for people with learning disability
- Authors:
- SMITH Beryl, WUN Wai-Ling, CUMELLA Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(1), 1996, pp.20-25.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article considers the training of staff who care for people with learning disability in the community. Looks at the findings from a survey of staff in community units in the West Midlands which suggest that although most staff receive some training, this is largely a mixture of short in-service courses and there is a lack of consistency across the various agencies. The article argues that despite the considerable changes taking place within services for people with learning disability, which require new knowledge and skills, we are still far removed from having an explicit, relevant and agreed strategy for training 'front-line carers'. Present approaches are reviewed and recommendations made for future development.
New song: reflections upon the inadequacy of community services for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- RAPLEY Mark, CLEMENTS John
- Journal article citation:
- Care in Place the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1(3), December 1994, pp.248-255.
Staff training has a chequered history, with an uncertain future. Despite continued investments of agency and institutional resources, the impact of change on individual workers may be negligible, or non-existent. Hence the efforts of agency managers to modify service delivery via importation of external 'experts' often have repeated previous cycles of failure. Several promising future directions are identified, with prescriptions for immediate action by individuals and agencies.
The Life Experiences Checklist. Part 1. Applications in staff training and programme planning
- Author:
- AGER Alastair
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 21(1), March 1993, pp.7-10.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Highlights applications of the Life Experiences Checklist in the areas of staff training and programme planning. In the former area the use of the LEC as a means of reinforcing normalisation-related concepts and encouraging attitudinal-change is described. In the latter area particular attention is given to the way the LEC can assist in setting individual goals in neglected domains such as relationships.
Challenging behaviour and community services
- Authors:
- CUMMINGS R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 17(1), March 1989, pp.13-17.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Describes selection and furnishing of property, developing of operational policies, and recruitment and training of staff.