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Sexuality: policies, beliefs and practice
- Authors:
- MURRAY J., MacDONALD R., LEVENSON V.
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 6(1), 2001, pp.29-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Consenting adults?: guidance for professionals and carers when considering rights and risks in sexual relationships involving people with a mental disorder
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Sexual expression, sexual relationships, marriage and children are a natural and expected part of a person’s life experience. People with a mental illness, learning disability or other mental disorder, have the same personal and sexual needs and rights as anyone else. At the same time people with a mental disorder can be at particular risk of abuse or exploitation. Balancing those rights and risks raises a host of legal and moral dilemmas. This guidance has been produced in response to the legal, ethical and practical issues concerning sexual relationships involving adults with a mental disorder. It is intended to provide a framework for discussion of the general issues that need to be considered when assessing risk and considering the need for intervention in a person’s sexual life. In assessing and deciding on the need for intervention, this guidance looks at a number of significant questions for practitioners. These include: assessment of capacity; issues of consent; knowledge of the person’s background and past and present wishes; the nature of the mental disorder; different forms of sexual expression; potential risks as against benefits; staff attitudes, knowledge and training; assistance given by staff; family attitudes; cultural and religious beliefs; the person’s living situation; statutory duties and professional and organisational responsibilities to investigate, including issues of confidentiality and disclosure; and intervention that may be required.
Staff attitudes towards the sexuality of people with learning disabilities: a comparison of different professional groups and residential facilities
- Authors:
- GRIEVE Alan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37(1), March 2009, pp.76-84.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Standardised measures of attitudes towards the sexuality of people with learning disabilities were completed by 188 qualified nurses and other care staff in Tayside, Scotland. Place of employment was a main variable and it was found that nursing home staff held significantly more conservative attitudes when compared with community care staff. This was the case with attitudes towards homosexuality, and attitudes towards the sexuality of people with mild, moderate and severe/profound learning disabilities. Levels of training emerged as a significant factor. These findings suggest that training and education on issues relating to the sexuality of people with learning disabilities may benefit all care staff, and especially those who work in nursing homes. Training may help to change their attitudes and develop an awareness of the ways in which people with learning disabilities form loving and personal relationships.
Staff attitudes towards individuals with learning disabilities and AIDS: the role of attitudes towards client sexuality and the issue of mandatory testing for HIV infection
- Authors:
- MURRAY James L., MACDONALD Raymond A.R., MINNES Patricia M.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(4), 1995, pp.321-332.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Investigates staff attitudes towards individuals with learning disabilities and AIDS in combination with staff attitudes towards client sexuality. Two hundred sand forty-six respondents from one organisation in Scotland voluntarily and anonymously returned the nine-item Staff Attitudes Towards Person with Learning Disabilities and AIDS Scale and the Sexuality and Persons with Learning Disabilities Attitude Inventory. Looks at the implications of the findings and discusses future research and limitations of the study.
Sex, laws and red tape: Scots law, personal relationships and people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- McKAY Colin
- Publisher:
- ENABLE
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Guide to the law as it affects the personal relationships of people with learning difficulties in Scotland. Covers issues of consent and care, privacy, marriage, pregnancy, parenting, individual and parental rights, and areas of concern such as sexual abuse.
Consenting adults? Guidance for professionals when considering rights and risks in sexual relationships involving people with a mental disorder
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland is an independent organisation working to safeguard the rights and welfare of people with mental illness, learning disability or other mental disorder. This guidance was produced in response to legal, ethical and practical issues concerning sexual relationships raised with the Commission in its work with people with mental disorder and those involved in their care. The guidance is intended to provide a framework for discussion of issues that need to be considered when assessing risk and considering the need for intervention in a person's sexual life. It covers the legal framework, capacity to consent, significance of a person's diagnosis, sexual risks arising from a person's mental disorder or social situation, staff knowledge and attitudes, family attitudes, cultural or religious values, the living situation and support and protection, statutory investigative duties, intervention following investigation, and legal interventions.
Signposts in fostering: policy, practice and research issues
- Editor:
- HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 380p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together seminal papers, previously published in the journal Adoption and Fostering, contributing to the shaping of fostering practice. Includes articles on: local authority fostering in Wales; a comparative survey of specialist fostering; developing leaving care services; recruiting and retaining foster carers; gender, sex and sexuality in the assessment of prospective carers; assessing Asian families in Scotland; involving birth parents in foster care training; using respite care to prevent long term family breakdown; short term family based care for children in need; short term foster care; meeting the needs of sibling groups in care; fostering as seen by the carers children; fostering children and young people with learning difficulties; the importance of networks to partnership in child centred foster care; how foster carers view contact; the role of social workers in supporting and developing the needs of foster carers; the social worker's experience of contact; social work and the education of children in foster care; the health of children looked after by the local authority; the statutory medical and health needs of looked after children; how foster parents experience social work with particular reference to placement endings; foster carers who cease to foster; the implications of recent child care research findings for foster care; and the foster child - the forgotten party.