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Meet Josephine – she’s as good as a real live woman!
- Authors:
- DOUKAS Thomas, MORGAN Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 26(1), 2013, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The Josephine project, run by “Them Wifies” in Newcastle upon Tyne, provides a fun way to teach women with learning disabilities about their bodies. Josephine is a life-size anatomically correct cloth woman designed to bring a creative, fun and accessible approach to the health, sexual and relationship education using a range of approaches to ensure that the women are central to the thinking behind the project. The impact of Josephine’s awareness workshops has already started to show – the women now have access to useful medical information in a friendly environment where they can talk about their feelings, and share their fears and experiences.
Screening support for women with learning disabilities
- Author:
- RAMESSUR-MARSDEN Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 26.8.08, 2008, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Breast and cervical screening can be a daunting, traumatic and often confusing process for women with learning disabilities. In North Wales, Breast Test Wales and Cervical Screening Wales have worked with the North East Wales community learning disability teams to address this issue. The article describes an initiative to produce a health education package for community learning disability teams to guide and support service users through the screening process.
Josephine: lets talk about sex...'n stuff!
- Author:
- MORGAN Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 12, January 2008, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
Josephine, a project by Them Wifies in Newcastle upon Tyne, brings a creative, fun and accessible approach to learning disabled women's health, sexual and relationship education. The author discusses the project which operates in the North East of England.
The delivery of a survivors’ group for learning disabled women with significant learning disabilities who have been sexually abused
- Authors:
- PECKHAM Nicholas Guy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 35(4), December 2007, pp.236-244.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper reports on the development and delivery of an effective 20-week Survivors' Group pilot for seven female survivors of sexual abuse with a significant learning disability and a separate Educational support Group for their carers.
Empowering another client group
- Author:
- HOWLETT Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, 16(4), May 2005, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
The author reports on her counselling work during the pilot project service provided for women with learning disabilities at the Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre. This includes describing a person-centred approach techique to address issues such as sexual abuse and self harm and how counselling positively benefited the women.
The healing starts here
- Author:
- BARTLETT Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.02.05, 2005, p.41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a project to rebuild the lives of people with learning difficulties who have been sexually abused. The project, developed by the Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre (TRCC), aimed to test how women with a learning difficulty might access a mainstream sexual assault or rape counselling service. It was winner of a Community Care Award.
“We can feel good”: evaluation of an adapted DBT informed skills programme in medium security
- Authors:
- ASHWORTH Sarah, BROTHERTON Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 12(5-6), 2018, pp.184-194.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a routine evaluation of clinical effectiveness of an adapted DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) informed skills programme (“I Can Feel Good”; Ingamells and Morrissey, 2014), run on both male and female intellectual disability wards of a medium security psychiatric hospital. Design/methodology/approach: A pre–post evaluation study of routine clinical practice was undertaken utilising staff report scales collected as the primary source of evaluation. FindingsL Findings show a positive shift regarding each module for both gender groups. Due to observed baseline differences between gender groups, data were separated and analysed separately. Non-parametric statistical analysis demonstrates statistically significant improvement across three modules for the male sample (managing feelings, coping in crisis and people skills) and two modules for the female sample (managing feelings and people skills). Originality/value: There appears to be subtle outcome differences regarding this programme for both gender groups across modules. Potential reasons for this are discussed, along with clinical reflections regarding gender differences and adaptations. Reflections upon future revisions including the integration of the new DBT skills (Linehan, 2014) are made in light of these findings. (Edited publisher abstract)
Women's health: how councils are making a difference
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Place of publication:
- London
These case studies illustrate how local government is working to ensure women's health is a priority in all they do. Although women live longer than men on average, they spend a significantly greater proportion of their lives in ill health and disability compared to men. To combat this, the government in England has published its first ever Women's Health Strategy. The strategy sets out a six-point plan to tackle the problems, calling for better representation to ensure women's voices are heard, improved access to services, better information and education, greater understanding of how women's health affects their experience in the workplace and improved data gathering and research. This collection of case studies shows the breadth of the work going on, from Lancashire's push to create a menopause-friendly environment for staff to Newcastle's social media campaign to get hard-to-reach women to come forward for cervical screening. Others, such as Surrey, are doing great working helping women caught up in the criminal justice system, while Liverpool has set up hubs to improve access to reproductive and sexual health services. If the ambitions of the strategy are to be achieved, local government will have a critical role. (Edited publisher abstract)
An easy access freedom programme: a new initiative in the provision of DVA services for women with learning disabilities
- Author:
- CAVALIER Tracy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 3(1), 2019, pp.119-128.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This paper describes and reflects on the practice of a UK based Community Learning Disabilities Team as it began to become aware of the increasing number of referrals of clients with learning disabilities also experiencing abuse. The paper describes how the previous provision was felt to be inadequate and the measures taken to address this. As such, we believe this paper will be of benefit to practitioners working with individuals experiencing both learning disabilities and abuse. This paper also illustrates the need to address these issues through collaborative working across professional boundaries. Again, we believe this example shows how the problems experienced by service users can be better served through this integrated approach. (Edited publisher abstract)