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Preventing dependency, promoting independence: a researcher's perspective
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 18(4), 2013, pp.2--202.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how research can support a renewed focus on the promotion of independence and the prevention of avoidable dependency. Design/methodology/approach: Narrative review and discussion. Findings: Generating practice-based evidence, exploiting the possibilities of existing administrative data and learning from the world of public health may offer some ways forward. Originality/value : Potential priorities for future research are identified. (Publisher abstract)
The relationship between life events and psychopathology amongst children with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- HATTON Chris, EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), June 2004, pp.109-117.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Research has established a clear relationship between life events and psychopathology amongst children generally, but this relationship has not been investigated in children with intellectual disabilities. A secondary analysis of data collected by the 1999 ONS survey of the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain, investigating associations between adverse life events and psychopathology amongst 264 children with intellectual disabilities and 10 040 children without intellectual disabilities. Children with intellectual disabilities were more likely to experience a greater number and range of adverse life events than children without intellectual disabilities, a difference partly accounted for by family poverty. For children with and without intellectual disabilities, there were robust associations between several life events and child psychiatric disorders, most strongly emotional disorder. There also appeared to be a cumulative effect of life events on the psychopathology of children with intellectual disabilities. Adverse life events play an important role in the psychopathology of children with intellectual disabilities and require further research attention. Policy interventions to reduce family poverty may have an indirect effect upon child psychopathology.