Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 5(3), 2014, pp.124-137.
Publisher:
Emerald
Purpose: There needs to be an increased recognition of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in services that deal with young people with disruptive and offending behaviour, not just those services that deal with adolescents with a recognised intellectual disability. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach: This is a general review of the current available evidence on FASD and how it is likely to predispose affected young people to have contact with secure mental health services and the criminal justice system.
Findings: FASD is likely to have become a more common cause of intellectual disability and behavioural disturbance but the history of significant alcohol exposure in utero if often missed. There is evidence that the hyperactivity is less responsive to psychotropic medication and may represent a different condition to conventional ADHD. However the majority of those affected are in the low normal IQ range.
Research limitations/implications: There is so far very limited research in what is likely to be a relatively common disorder with significant costs to criminal justice, mental healthcare and social services. Epidemiological information from the UK is lacking and urgently needed.
Practical implications: Professionals who work with mentally disordered young people need to be more aware of FASD and its potential contribution to the problems and disabilities in their population.
Social implications: Social workers, foster carers and adoptive parents need to be more aware of FASD and how it can contribute to the breakdown of social care.
Originality/value: There is currently no other review of FASD and the implications for criminal justice, secure mental health and social care for young people.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Purpose: There needs to be an increased recognition of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in services that deal with young people with disruptive and offending behaviour, not just those services that deal with adolescents with a recognised intellectual disability. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach: This is a general review of the current available evidence on FASD and how it is likely to predispose affected young people to have contact with secure mental health services and the criminal justice system.
Findings: FASD is likely to have become a more common cause of intellectual disability and behavioural disturbance but the history of significant alcohol exposure in utero if often missed. There is evidence that the hyperactivity is less responsive to psychotropic medication and may represent a different condition to conventional ADHD. However the majority of those affected are in the low normal IQ range.
Research limitations/implications: There is so far very limited research in what is likely to be a relatively common disorder with significant costs to criminal justice, mental healthcare and social services. Epidemiological information from the UK is lacking and urgently needed.
Practical implications: Professionals who work with mentally disordered young people need to be more aware of FASD and its potential contribution to the problems and disabilities in their population.
Social implications: Social workers, foster carers and adoptive parents need to be more aware of FASD and how it can contribute to the breakdown of social care.
Originality/value: There is currently no other review of FASD and the implications for criminal justice, secure mental health and social care for young people.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
foetal alcohol syndrome, young people, conduct disorders, offenders, mental health services, learning disabilities, criminal justice;
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 11(1), 2020, pp.23-34.
Publisher:
Emerald
Purpose: There is a need to evaluate an adapted Equipping Youth to help One Another (EQUIP) programme for people with intellectual disabilities and forensic needs. The purpose of this paper is to explore a service user’s experience of completing the intervention as part of their transition into the community. Design/methodology/approach: A collaborative case report was used. Following hospital discharge and completion of the adapted EQUIP programme, one service user with mild intellectual disability was supported to share their treatment experiences using participatory action research. Findings: Findings suggest that while the adapted community EQUIP group can support skills acquisition (e.g. problem-solving), discharge processes and community reintegration, professionals need to maintain a person-centred approach mindful of participants’ complex emotional journeys. Research limitations/implications: The design allows for tentative conclusions to be made about the service user’s journey and is not necessarily generalisable. Practical implications: There is a pressing need to develop the evidence base for interventions offered in the community to people with intellectual disabilities and a history of offending. This report provides some evidence that EQUIP can be adapted to support this population. Originality/value: This is the first coproduced publication exploring the experience of a service user with intellectual disability who completed an adapted EQUIP programme.
(Publisher abstract)
Purpose: There is a need to evaluate an adapted Equipping Youth to help One Another (EQUIP) programme for people with intellectual disabilities and forensic needs. The purpose of this paper is to explore a service user’s experience of completing the intervention as part of their transition into the community. Design/methodology/approach: A collaborative case report was used. Following hospital discharge and completion of the adapted EQUIP programme, one service user with mild intellectual disability was supported to share their treatment experiences using participatory action research. Findings: Findings suggest that while the adapted community EQUIP group can support skills acquisition (e.g. problem-solving), discharge processes and community reintegration, professionals need to maintain a person-centred approach mindful of participants’ complex emotional journeys. Research limitations/implications: The design allows for tentative conclusions to be made about the service user’s journey and is not necessarily generalisable. Practical implications: There is a pressing need to develop the evidence base for interventions offered in the community to people with intellectual disabilities and a history of offending. This report provides some evidence that EQUIP can be adapted to support this population. Originality/value: This is the first coproduced publication exploring the experience of a service user with intellectual disability who completed an adapted EQUIP programme.
(Publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
participatory research, action research, learning disabilities, intervention, offenders, service users, hospital discharge, young people, resettlement;
Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 13(5), 2019, pp.216-227.
Publisher:
Emerald
Purpose: Elucidating where antisocial or violent behaviour arises within the life course of individuals with intellectual disability (ID) could improve outcomes within this population, through informing services and interventions which prevent behaviours reaching a forensic threshold. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach: The Historical Clinical Risk Management-20, Version 3 assessments of a cohort of 84 inpatients within a forensic ID service were analysed for this study, with a particular emphasis on items concerned with the age at which antisocial or violence first emerged. Findings: For most participants, violent or antisocial behaviour was first observed in childhood or adolescence. The study also highlighted a smaller subgroup, whose problems with violence or antisocial behaviour were first observed in adulthood. Originality/value: The study findings suggest that targeted services in childhood and adolescence may have a role in reducing the offending behaviour and forensic involvement of people with ID. This has implications for the service models provided for children and adolescents with ID with challenging or offending behaviour.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Purpose: Elucidating where antisocial or violent behaviour arises within the life course of individuals with intellectual disability (ID) could improve outcomes within this population, through informing services and interventions which prevent behaviours reaching a forensic threshold. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach: The Historical Clinical Risk Management-20, Version 3 assessments of a cohort of 84 inpatients within a forensic ID service were analysed for this study, with a particular emphasis on items concerned with the age at which antisocial or violence first emerged. Findings: For most participants, violent or antisocial behaviour was first observed in childhood or adolescence. The study also highlighted a smaller subgroup, whose problems with violence or antisocial behaviour were first observed in adulthood. Originality/value: The study findings suggest that targeted services in childhood and adolescence may have a role in reducing the offending behaviour and forensic involvement of people with ID. This has implications for the service models provided for children and adolescents with ID with challenging or offending behaviour.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
early intervention, prevention, offenders, learning disabilities, case studies, secure units, young offenders, young people, intervention, service provision;
Information provision and communication within the Criminal Justice System can be highly problematic for young people and adults with learning disabilities and difficulties. Paper-based communication is common, and is mandated for the provision of rights and entitlements in custody, but such communication can be poorly understood, potentially leading to miscarriages of justice. This article uses the piloting of a more accessible version of the rights and entitlements notice in custody to explore the communication practices with vulnerable detained persons from the perspectives of professionals within the Criminal Justice System. As a legally mandated text in a context heavily imbued with organisational power, the rights and entitlements notice in custody has sociological significance as a lens through which organisational practices, and understandings, can be examined. The stressful, fast-paced and transitional context of custody shapes communication and interaction in ways that are challenging for the detained person and also the professionals who support them.
(Publisher abstract)
Information provision and communication within the Criminal Justice System can be highly problematic for young people and adults with learning disabilities and difficulties. Paper-based communication is common, and is mandated for the provision of rights and entitlements in custody, but such communication can be poorly understood, potentially leading to miscarriages of justice. This article uses the piloting of a more accessible version of the rights and entitlements notice in custody to explore the communication practices with vulnerable detained persons from the perspectives of professionals within the Criminal Justice System. As a legally mandated text in a context heavily imbued with organisational power, the rights and entitlements notice in custody has sociological significance as a lens through which organisational practices, and understandings, can be examined. The stressful, fast-paced and transitional context of custody shapes communication and interaction in ways that are challenging for the detained person and also the professionals who support them.
(Publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
young people, communication, rights, learning disabilities, police, criminal justice, needs, sentences, young offenders, offenders, adults;
Looks at the treatment of offenders with mental health problems in the United States. Includes chapters on: administration of treatment programmes; legal aspects; inpatient treatment; community based forensic treatment; treatment in prison; treatment of sex offenders; treatment of offenders with learning difficulties; and treatment of juvenile offenders.
Looks at the treatment of offenders with mental health problems in the United States. Includes chapters on: administration of treatment programmes; legal aspects; inpatient treatment; community based forensic treatment; treatment in prison; treatment of sex offenders; treatment of offenders with learning difficulties; and treatment of juvenile offenders.
Subject terms:
law, learning disabilities, mental health problems, mentally disordered offenders, offenders, prisons, residential care, sex offenders, treatment, therapy and treatment, young offenders, young people, community care;
An introduction to HIV_AIDS for social workers, and guidelines for counselling those affected. Includes the Kensington and Chelsea SSD guidelines for care of people with AIDS.
An introduction to HIV_AIDS for social workers, and guidelines for counselling those affected. Includes the Kensington and Chelsea SSD guidelines for care of people with AIDS.
Subject terms:
HIV AIDS, home care, law, learning disabilities, literature reviews, local authorities, occupational therapy, offenders, partners, pre-school children, prevention, residential care, social services, single parent families, social work methods, social workers, staff, terminal illness, training, visual impairment, voluntary organisations, women, young people, adoption, alcohol misuse, babies, child abuse, children, confidentiality, counselling, day services, deafness, death, drug misuse, discrimination, education, families, employment, ethics, foster care;
immigrants, homeless people, homelessness, housing, inner cities, learning disabilities, legal aid, local authorities, local government, local government finance, mental health problems, NHS, mothers, offenders, older people, physical disabilities, probation, poverty, pre-school children, punishment, social services, social work, social care provision, urban areas, welfare state, young people, after care, alcohol misuse, benefits, central government, children, community health care, drug misuse, education, employment, family planning, financing, Gypsies, health care;