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Social workers and psychologists as facilitators of groupwork with adults with a learning difficulty: a survey of current practice
- Authors:
- SCHONFELD Heino, MORRISSEY Mary C.
- Journal article citation:
- Groupwork, 5(3), 1992, pp.41-61.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
A survey was conducted to examine trends in groupwork as a method of enhancing social skills for people with a learning difficulty. Psychologists and social workers working with adults with a learning difficulty in the Republic of Ireland were surveyed by questionnaire. Outlines the method used to do the survey and at the end of the article is a copy of the questionnaire. From the results common patterns and general trends emerged which distinguishes this area of groupwork from other more traditional areas of application groupwork. It was concluded that groupwork was an effective method to use with adults with a learning difficulty. It was felt that the results could provide a basis for more exchange between professionals and further research was suggested to address training needs of professionals in the field.
Parents Plus Programme I: evaluation of its effectiveness for pre-school children with developmental disabilities and behavioural problems
- Authors:
- QUINN Mark, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(4), July 2007, pp.345-359.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Parents Plus programme with families of pre-school children with developmental disabilities and significant behavioural problems in the Irish health service. The Parents Plus programme is a group-based parent training package involving video modelling, which was designed to be effective for children with conduct problems, but without developmental disabilities. The research conducted pre- and post-treatment assessments with 22 treated cases and 19 waiting-list controls with a protocol that included the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, the Child Behaviour Checklist, the General Health Questionnaire-12, the Kansas Parental Satisfaction Scale, the Family Assessment Device, the Perceived Social Support Scale, the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes, the Parenting Stress Index and the Questionnaire on Resources and Stress. Following the treatment, a comparison of treatment and control group means showed that the treated group showed better adjustment on the total difficulties scale of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. These gains were maintained at 10-month follow-up. Fifty per cent of treated cases showed clinically significant improvement and 14% showed reliable change on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. The treatment group reported a high level of satisfaction with the Parents Plus programme and showed significant goal attainment after treatment and at follow-up. For some families of pre-school children with developmental disabilities and significant behavioural problems, the Parents Plus programme is an effective intervention and may be incorporated into routine early intervention clinics in the Irish health service.
Working with young people who sexually abuse: new pieces of the jigsaw puzzle
- Author:
- CALDER Martin C.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 319p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
Collection of papers aiming to consolidate and extent the current knowledge and practice base in relation to young people who sexually abuse. Papers include: filling the theoretical reservoir of causal explanations; detection, diagnosis and treatment of paraphilic personality disorder; clinical assessment instruments that measure strengths and risks in children and families; recovery assessments with young people who sexually abuse; attachment and intimacy in young people who sexually abuse; a framework for a multiagency approach to working with young abusers; a conceptual framework for managing young people who sexually abuse; a psychoanalytical view of the relationship between fathers and their sons; a description of a community based project to work with young people who sexually abuse; developing groupwork with young people who sexually abuse; young abusers with learning difficulties; young people with Asperger's syndrome; the significance of trauma in problematic behaviour; dilemmas and potential work with sexually abusive young people in residential settings; and characteristics and treatment of adolescent sex offenders in the republic of Ireland.