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Challenging behaviour
- Author:
- SLEVIN Eamonn
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(7), March 1999, pp.242-245.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reviews the management of challenging behaviour in people with learning disabilities.
Multiple family groups: an alternative for reducing disruptive behavioral difficulties of urban children
- Authors:
- MCKAY Mary M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 9(5), September 1999, pp.593-607.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Presents an evaluation of a multiple family group (MFG) intervention designed to meet the mental health needs of low-income minority children and families. Comparisons were made with children who received MFG and those receiving individual or family therapy services. Follow up interviews revealed that seventy percent of MFG parents noted child improvements, in comparison to fifty four percent of parents whose children received individual family therapy.
'All we are really here for is storage, dear'. Psychodynamic approaches to the short term care of children with learning disabilities
- Author:
- PIKE N.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(1), March 1999, pp.3-10.
Short term care, both residential and family based, remains a cornerstone of family support services for children with learning disabilities. Discusses how research findings suggest that short term care services are primarily orientated to the support needs of families and carers, rather than the emotional security of the child. The author argues that psychodynamic approaches can both illuminate the experience of the child in the residential short term care setting, and suggests patterns of service that can enhance the well being of the child. The author proposes that careful attention to the building of therapeutic relationships in the context of everyday events such as meals, intimate personal care, individualised play activities and settling to sleep, can make a contribution to the personal growth of the child. The article concludes by considering some of the implications for staff development and deployment that follow from the adoption of such an approach.
Services for children with learning disability: international perspectives on residential child care
- Editor:
- BARLOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- University of Strathclyde. Centre for Residential Child Care
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Includes papers on: services for children with learning difficulties; between the ideal and the reality; exploring the relationship of the child educator; the Camphill Diploma Course in Curative Education; respite care in the Ottawa Rotary Home; a holistic approach at the Linn Moor Special Residential School; twenty two years of residential care for special needs children; education, care and therapy at the St. Margaret's School; the network family programme in Tasmania; and putting the concept of quality of care into operation.