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Preventing mental disorder in young people
- Author:
- PANKHURST Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Family Policy, Autumn 2000, p.10.
Since one in ten children are suffering from some kind of mental disorder, the author argues that preventative work must begin at birth.
Preventing developmental disabilities and promoting maternal and child health: women organising for change
- Author:
- WILSON Ann M.
- Journal article citation:
- Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 18(4), Winter 2003, pp.473-478.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Learning difficulties and related developmental disabilities affect 1.5% of the population in the United States. Efforts to address preventable developmental disabilities, such as those caused by lead poisoning, fetal alcohol syndrome, and traumatic brain injuries, have been the focus of activities in one state for almost 20 years. These efforts were created, and have been organised and sustained, by women. The prevention coalition was established to foster cooperation, identify and develop resources, and advocate for programmes, services, and legislation. The coalition further promotes the development of leaders in the human services and public health fields and embraces feminist principles of collaboration, mutual support, nurturance,and self-empowerment in its organizing efforts. Implications for community organizing and development, public awareness and community education around primary prevention issues, legislative advocacy, mentoring and coaching of emerging leaders, community partnerships, and social change are discussed.
The relationship between training and the experience of aggression in the workplace in residential care staff working in learning disability services
- Authors:
- MURRAY G.C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(4), December 1999, pp.214-218.
Uses a questionnaire to examine the following in 50 social care staff: the experience of workplace aggression in staff supporting individuals with a learning disability, the extent to which staff had received training in the prevention and management of aggressive behaviour and the relationship between training and staff confidence in dealing with aggression. Staff reported strategies for dealing with aggression which mainly involved withdrawal of themselves and others rather than physical interventions. However, there was a neglect of longer-term strategies for dealing with aggression. Implications for practice are discussed.
Implementing adult protection policies in Kent and East Sussex
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 27(3), July 1998, pp.371-396.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Reports on the extent and nature of adult protection cases dealt with by two social services departments during a twelve month period in 1995-6, within the framework of newly revised generic policies on abuse of vulnerable adults. The two counties varied in the level of reporting documented and in the number of cases logged for individuals who fall within the main four groups of 'vulnerable adults' covered by the policies. Arguments for consistent reporting are set out and the tension which exists between formal and informal approaches to the subsequent investigation of abuse discussed with reference to American vulnerable adult statutes.