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Young people with learning disabilities who show sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviours
- Author:
- FYSON Rachel
- Publisher:
- Ann Craft Trust
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 63p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
This research project, which commenced in April 2001, was funded by the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund for three years and was run jointly with the Centre for Social Work at The University of Nottingham. The research looked at the current situation for adolescent abusers to find out what interventions might have been helpful and what would be beneficial in the future regarding the prevention of any further abusive behaviour.
Feel Safe: a pilot study of a protective behaviours programme for people with intellectual disability
- Author:
- MAZZUCCHELLI Trevor G.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 26(2), June 2001, pp.115-126.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes a pilot study of a group programme designed to increase personal safety skills in adults with intellectual disability in Australia. Feel Safe aims to teach the protective behaviours themes "we all have the right to feel safe all the time" and "nothing is so awful that we can't talk with someone about it"; how to recognise unsafe situations; a range of personal coping and problem-solving skills. Examines whether participants attending the Feel Safe programme understood and retained the content of the sessions, increased their use of protective behaviours skills and concepts, and perceived themselves as being safer and more satisfied with how safe they felt. The results were promising. They suggested that by attending the Feel Safe programme people could increase their knowledge in their day-to-day lives. Participants in the experimental group were not found, however, to perceive themselves as being safer or more satisfied with hoe safe they felt.
Breaking the cycle of violence
- Author:
- O'ROURKE Siobhan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(3), January 1999, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
When the use of restraint becomes an established response to behavioural crises there is a serious risk that care-givers and service-users will become hardened and entrenched within a highly polarised relationship. Explains how the use of Positive Response Procedures can reverse this process.
Reducing the use of restrictive practices with people who have intellectual disabilities: a practical approach
- Author:
- ALLEN David
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 67p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
This practical guide looks at how to reduce the use of physical restraint and other restrictive practices, such as seclusion and medication, when working people with intellectual disabilities. First it discusses what is known about how often restrictive practice are used and their impact on people who have intellectual disabilities. Key individual and organisational factors that can lead to a reduction in restrictive practices are then outlined. The potential role of positive behavioural support in reducing restrictive practices is also considered. Finally a suggested project template for reducing restrictive practices in organisations is described.
Abuse in care? The identification of early indicators of the abuse of people with learning disabilities in residential settings
- Authors:
- MARSLAND Dave, OAKES Peter, WHITE Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 9(4), November 2007, pp.6-20.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Although 'No Secrets' suggests that adult protection practices should seek to prevent abuse, it can be argued that such practice predominately focuses on pursuing effective abuse that has already happened, rather than preventing abuse. This article reports on research which sought to contribute to the prevention of abuse, through the identification of 'early indicators'.
A randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioural anger management group for clients with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- WILLNER Paul, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(3), September 2002, pp.224-235.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes a trial where 14 clients with learning difficulties were randomly assigned to an anger management group for treatment. Treatment included brainstorming, role playing and homework. Topics included the triggers that evoke anger; physiological and behavioural components; and cognitive strategies to avoid the onset of anger.
Intellectual and HIV infection: a service related study of policies and staff attitudes
- Authors:
- MACDONALD Raymond A.R., MURRAY James L., LEVENSON Victor L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 12(4), 1999, pp.348-357.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a study of staff knowledge and attitudes in relation to policies on HIV infection in organisations providing services to people with intellectual disabilities. Staff in three different service providers (NHS, social service and private and voluntary organisations) were sent the staff attitudes towards persons with learning disabilities and HIV infection scale. 46 percent of respondents did not know or were unsure of policies concerning clients with HIV infection; 69 percent of respondents reported that these policies either did not influence their behaviour or that they were unsure if they did. The results are discussed with reference to HIV prevention, health promotion and appropriate service support for people with intellectual disabilities.
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.