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Working with people who have severe learning difficulty and challenging behaviour: a practical handbook on the behavioural approach
- Authors:
- MCBRIEN Judith, FELCE David
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 109p.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Is community care expensive? The costs and benefits of residential models for people with severe mental handicaps
- Author:
- FELCE David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 21(1), March 1993, pp.2-6.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Analyses studies which contribute information on the costs and benefits of different forms of residential service for people with severe mental handicaps, finding that expectations of diseconomies arising in small scale provision are not borne out in general.
Close to home: a local housing service and its impact on the lives of nine adults with severe and profound mental handicaps
- Authors:
- FELCE David, TOOGOOD Sandy
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 191p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Discusses the experiences of nine people who moved from institutional care to a community based house. Looks at managing difficult behaviour, improving the quality of life, and helping individuals to adapt to a normal life in the community.
Exploring the relationships between costs and quality of services for adults with severe intellectual disabilities and the most severe challenging behaviours in Wales: a multivariate regression analysis
- Authors:
- FELCE David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 25(4), December 2000, pp.307-326.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A survey in Wales of people with severe intellectual disabilities and the most severe challenging behaviour identified adults living in new specialist community housing and 19 in traditional services. This study explored the relationships between resident characteristics, service characteristics, service processes, quality of life outcome and costs in a series of mutivariate regression analyses.
Residential behaviour and staff interaction with people with intellectual disabilities and seriously challenging behaviour in residential services
- Authors:
- FELCE David, LOWE Kathy, BLACKMAN Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(4), 1995, pp.272-295.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
The behaviour of residents with severe intellectual disabilities and severely challenging behaviour and the interactions they received from staff were observed. Eight people lived in traditional hospitals and eight in community settings. The two groups were individually matched by adaptive ability. Looked at two case studies which, with other recent research, point to the impact which the content and focus of staff attention can have on resident activity patterns. Comparison to research on people with less severe challenging behaviour supports the contention that individuals with the most severe challenging behaviours tend to lead more impoverished lives.
Outcomes of ordinary housing services in Wales: objective indicators
- Authors:
- PERRY Jonathan, FELCE David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 7(4), 1995, pp.286-311.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Outcome data were collected on fourteen, recently provided staffed houses for people with mild, moderate, severe or profound learning disabilities in order to assess the quality of service provided. Quality indicators reflected the quality of the housing provision, social and community integration, social relationships within the houses, resident engagement in activity, developmental progress over time and opportunities for autonomy and choice. The data show that the quality of the houses investigated was broadly similar to that reported for other housing services in British research which has accompanied deinstitutionalisation. Quality levels on many indicators were related to the ability of residents and the data illustrate the difficulty in providing services for people with more severe or profound learning difficulties, which are capable of achieving outcomes comparable with those attained in services for more able residents. The research provides further evidence that the extent of staff support for resident activity is critical to how much residents are able to participate fully in the everyday activities which arise in the conduct of their lives.