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Quality outcomes at Chestnut Drive
- Authors:
- THOMAS Derek, RUCKER Lyn, RIMMER Melanie
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Looks at service provision in a residential unit for people with learning difficulties who have committed offences and for people with severe challenging behaviour. Examines: policy issues; service design; quality safeguards already in place; outcomes; safeguards; and implications and recommendations arising from the report.
Therapeutic communities for people with intellectual disability and complex needs
- Authors:
- TAYLOR Jon, CROWTHER Simon, BRYANT Christian
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 9(3), 2015, pp.124-131.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the use and value of therapeutic communities (TCs) in services for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) and complex needs. Design/methodology/approach: A structured literature review of TC in ID services. Findings: TCs have been used in a range of in-patient services for people with IDs. Although outcome studies are scarce, those that exist offer promising indications of such service designs. Originality/value: TCs have seen a recent increase of interest in ID services. This paper provides an overview of these services and outlines the benefits that such a residential culture can offer for both service users and staff members. (Publisher abstract)
Transitions: placing a son or daughter with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour in alternative residential provision
- Author:
- ALBORZ Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 16(1), March 2003, pp.75-88.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The timing of moves to alternative care has implications for the effective support of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. Three transition profiles have been proposed: ‘normative’, ‘stress process’ and ‘postponed’. The applicability of these profiles to people with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour was tested. It was found that few people moved due to ‘normative’ family life cycle changes. The majority left because of family difficulties (‘stress process’). This model was elaborated and three transition routes described: ‘forensic’– involving police contact (actual/potential), ‘family’, reflecting problems in the family and ‘service, deficits leading to placement out of district. This research suggests that people (particularly young men) with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour enter statutory care earlier than their counterparts, and people with different levels of intellectual and physical disabilities follow different transition routes.
Forensic risk assessment in intellectual disabilities: the evidence base and current practice in one English region
- Author:
- TURNER Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 13(4), 2000, pp.239-255.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The growing interest in forensic risk assessment in intellectual disability services reflects the perception that deinstitutionalisation has exposed more people to a greater risk of offending. However, ‘risk’ and the related idea of ‘dangerousness’ are problematic concepts because of connotations of dichotomous definition, stability and predictability. In order to discover how such problems were reflected in practice, a survey of providers in the North-west Region of England was undertaken. Seventy out of 106 providers identified as possibly relevant to this inquiry responded to a short postal questionnaire. Twenty-nine respondents – mainly in the statutory sector – reported operating a risk assessment policy relating to offending. The number of risk assessments completed in the previous year varied from none to ‘several hundred’. Providers reported three main kinds of problems: (1) resources or service configuration; (2) interagency or interdisciplinary cooperation or coordination; and (3) issues relating to the effectiveness, design and content of assessment.
Offending by adults with learning disabilities: identifying need in one health district
- Authors:
- LYALL I., HOLLAND A.J., COLLINS S.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(2), 1995, pp.99-109.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
The extent to which adults in one health district with intellectual disabilities engaged in offending behaviour and the nature of their need was investigated in a series of three studies. The lack of established links between the criminal justice agency and other services and the experience and attitudes of staff in the different agencies both hindered the recognition of the presence of a possible learning disability and also prevented referral across agencies. These and social factors, such as homelessness, all contributed to a failure to provide for the needs of this minority of adults with learning disabilities who became involved in the criminal justice system.
Access to independent advocacy: an evidence review
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MARRIOTT Anna, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 167p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This review sets out to investigate the nature and extent of evidence relating to independent advocacy for disabled people at risk of losing choice and control in four specific situations: during transition to adulthood; when the children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures; when entry to residential care is a possibility; when disabled people are victims or alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. In doing so, it describes and evaluates evidence about the need, costs and benefits associated with independent advocacy. The final section summarises the state of the evidence base currently available and the gaps therein, and suggests what additional research is needed to further our knowledge in this field.
Access to independent advocacy: an evidence review: executive summary
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MARRIOTT Anna, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is the executive summary of a review which sets out to investigate the nature and extent of evidence relating to independent advocacy for disabled people at risk of losing choice and control in four specific situations: during transition to adulthood; when the children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures; when entry to residential care is a possibility; when disabled people are victims or alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. In doing so, it describes and evaluates evidence about the need, costs and benefits associated with independent advocacy. The final section summarises the state of the evidence base currently available and the gaps therein, and suggests what additional research is needed to further our knowledge in this field.
Treatment of offenders with mental disorders
- Editor:
- WETTSTEIN Robert M.
- Publisher:
- Guilford Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 447p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
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.
Profiling the sexually abusive behaviour of men with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(2), 1997, pp.125-139.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents a statistical analysis of the offences allegedly committed by a sample of men with intellectual disabilities and the responses they received. The most common victims are shown to be people with intellectual disabilities, women staff, and children and women in the general public. There was also variation between the nature of the offences across victim groups, with people with intellectual disabilities being on the receiving end of the most serious forms of assault. The responses to the men were not found to be correlated with the nature of the sexual abuse but to whom was abused: the abuse of children and women in the general public giving rise to the strongest responses. Protection of victims from subsequent abuse was also related to this specific variable, here people with intellectual disabilities and women staff gained the least protection. Also draws attention to the high proportion of men receiving intellectual disability services who appear not to have intellectual disabilities and the poor level of risk management of men with histories of sexually abusing.
Groups and groupings: life and work in day and residential centres
- Editors:
- BROWN Allan, CLOUGH Roger
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 241p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
A theoretical perspective and a practice framework for staff working in day and residential services.