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How service‐users with intellectual disabilities understand challenging behaviour and approaches to managing it
- Authors:
- CLARKE Aoife, DAGNAN Dave, SMITH Ian C.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 32(5), 2019, pp.1203-1215.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: This study explored understandings that service‐users with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour held around their behaviour, what shaped these understandings, and the relationship between how behaviours are managed and well‐being. Methods: Eight participants (three female, five male) partook in individual semi‐structured qualitative interviews. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results: Three master themes emerged from this analysis: (a) challenging behaviour can be explained via an internal or external frame of reference, with each framework having different implications for how participants attempted to manage behaviour. (b) Positive relationships provide a long‐term buffer to challenging behaviour, with positive relationships with family, staff and peers operating through different mechanisms to achieve this. (c) A greater ability to exert power and control in day‐to‐day life was perceived to reduce challenging behaviour in the long term. Conclusions: Implications for practice are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
An evaluation of joint training for staff and clients in shared action planning in Solihull
- Authors:
- DAGNAN Dave, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(3), 1995, pp.98-101.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes an approach to training in Shared Action Planning that involves both plan coordinators and people with learning disabilities as equal participants.
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.