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Bullying involving children with special educational needs and disabilities: safe to learn: embedding anti-bullying work in schools
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- London
As part of the drive to stop persistent bullying in schools, the DCSF has published new guidance, to join the suite of materials Safe to Learn which look at tackling all forms of bullying. This new advice looks at the issue of the bullying of children with SEN and disabilities. It is designed to help school staff understand and address the particular issues that surround sustained bullying of this type, and recommends strategies to stamp out persistent bullying of all kinds.
Experiences with pregnancy of adolescents with disabilities from the perspectives of the school social workers who serve them
- Authors:
- LINTON Kristen Faye, RUEDA Heidi Adams
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 39(2), 2014, pp.92-100.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Adolescents with disabilities are more likely than adolescents without disabilities to become pregnant, although very little is known about the lived contexts of their sexual and pregnancy experiences. Such youths are often deprived of sexual health information across a range of potential sources, although school social workers are in a unique position to provide them services. Thirteen school social workers working primarily with adolescents with disabilities were interviewed using a phenomenological study design to offer their perspectives concerning the sexual and pregnancy experiences of such youths. Inductive content analysis revealed that school social workers provided services for pregnant and parenting adolescents with a range of disabilities in areas that included making decisions about sex, deciphering whether they were pregnant, and making decisions once they were pregnant. These experiences were complicated by cognitive impairments; emotional struggles; desires to fit in with peers; histories of sexual abuse; and issues with communication, self-esteem, and impulsivity. School social workers play an integral role in preventing pregnancy and supporting adolescents with disabilities who are pregnant. Recommendations pertaining to the provision of sexual health services for adolescents with disabilities are provided. (Publisher abstract)
Working with challenging behaviour: an in-service training pack for all staff working with pupils with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BISHTON Helen, et al
- Publisher:
- Lucky Duck Publishing
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 5 booklets in pack.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Training pack containing units on: staff reactions and attitudes - the school ethos; understanding and assessing challenging behaviour; prevention; crisis management; and responding to challenging behaviour.