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Gender issues for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems: asking what service users and staff think
- Author:
- KROESE Biza Stenfert
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 7(4), 2013, pp.181-190.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The current qualitative study aims to investigate service users’, support staff's and community team members’ views of gender differences in cause and presentation of mental health problems, whether current services respond differently to men and women with mental health problems and areas in which services can become more gender sensitive. Two focus groups were conducted with service users with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems in addition to two focus groups with a variety of staff. Subsequently, individual interviews were conducted with both male and female staff members employed in residential and community intellectual disability services. The number of participants totalled 54 (16 service users and 38 staff). Thematic analysis was adopted in order to identify dominant themes in the discourse of these stakeholder groups. The analysis produced a number of themes which include: compliance versus challenge; vulnerability; expression of emotion; gender equality; same sex support; caring qualities; and boundaries. A number of suggestions for improving services are discussed in the context of the current findings. (Publisher abstract)
Consumers with intellectual disabilities as service evaluators
- Authors:
- KROESE Biza Stenfert, GILLIOT Alinda, ATKINSON Vicky
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(2), 1998, pp.116-128.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Consumer views of public services are now recognised as an integral part of auditing. Reviews the relevant literature and focuses on the methods used to gather consumer views of public services. The review found that areas of application have included residential, day and therapeutic services. Most studies have found that given adequate opportunities and effective interview methods, people with intellectual disabilities can be informative, critical and reliable service evaluators. Some recommendations for optimising valid and reliable consumer views are given.
The uses of a special needs register for people with learning difficulties - looking back over five years
- Authors:
- DAGNAN Dave, KROESE Biza Stenfert
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 21(1), March 1993, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Describes the special needs register for people with learning difficulties which has been operational in Dudley for over five years. The register is integrated into both routine clinical work, including the local individual programme planning system, and also widely used for research and planning purposes.