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The physical abuse of people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours: lessons for commissioners and providers
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(1), January 1998, pp.18-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the circumstances surrounding the physical abuse of persons with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours in a residential service and the findings of a related inquiry. The findings are used to identify the signs and signals associated with a culture of abuse, of use to commissioners and providers for helping detect abusive services and for adults protection more widely.
At whose risk? Priorities and conflicts for policy development in HIV and intellectual disability
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(2), 1997, pp.83-104.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Identifies considerations for HIV policy in services for people with intellectual disabilities and suggests standards for best practice. Evidence from research, policy development and training is examined to inform arguments about the nature, location and management of HIV risk with service and user case studies used to illustrate argument. Priorities for policy are offered and conflicts between the rights and responsibilities of individuals are explored, with discussion centred on the re-homosexualisation of HIV. Also identifies key related considerations such as legal and moral questions, policy principles and the need for coordination.
A practice and policy agenda for HIV and learning difficulties
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22(4), December 1994, pp.134-139.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reviews how issues around HIV and learning difficulties come together to present a challenge for health promotion/HIV prevention and services for people with learning difficulties. The review also identifies key practice issues which services for people with learning difficulties need to address in relation to HIV and offers a model for developing policy and resources for carrying forward work in this area.
Considerations for informing safer sex education work with men with learning disabilities
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27(4), December 1999, pp.123-126.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reviews HIV prevention and safer sex education work with men with learning disabilities, identifying considerations for responding to HIV in its third decade. While the effective targeting of HIV prevention remains with men with learning disabilities who have sex with men, new considerations are also emerging from experience with sex education, staff training and HIV prevention more widely, helping reshape and inform service responses and individuals work.
How far to gay? The politics of HIV in learning disability
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(3), June 1997, pp.427-453.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article examines work in sexual health and HIV prevention in services for people with learning disabilities from a political stance associated with the re-homosexualisation of AIDS in Britain. Arguments are made for the re-homosexualisation of AIDS in services for people with learning disabilities, based on evidence of where HIV risk lies in relation to men with learning disabilities who have sex with men. The case is made for a realistic approaches to service commissioning and safer sex education. Pointers for service development and key areas where the re-homosexualisation of AIDS can inform practice and resource development are also provided.