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All planned out
- Author:
- WILTON Melissa
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 13(2), March/April 2013, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Learning disability nurses in the Community Assessment and Treatment Service with the Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust have been working in partnership with service users to make care plans more personalised and meaningful. The accessible care planning project redesigns care plan's so they are original and based on an individual's likes, interests and strengths. The project has has resulted in care plans being designed in a number of different formats, for example in the style of newspapers, comic books and on an interactive touchscreen computer. The development of the care plans has also increased the participation of service users working with professionals and the team has also experienced improved completions and achievements within the care plans. The project has been recognised nationally and was shortlisted for the Learning Disabilities Nursing category at the Nursing Times awards 2012. (Original abstract)
Valuing diversity
- Author:
- JUDD Dawn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 26(2), 2013, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
A study by the University of Central Lancashire interviewed with a small group of women, mainly originating from Poland, who worked in organisations providing a range of support to adults with learning disabilities. None of the women interviewed had ever worked in adult social care in Poland. Despite the poor pay of care work in the UK all felt this was more than they could earn in Poland. All of the women interviewed had achieved competency based NVQ 3 awards, but acknowledged that these qualifications were unlikely to be recognised in Poland. English language skills were raised as an issue by employers. The study highlights the potential contribution of suitably trained and recruited Polish workers to adult learning disability services in the UK in a time of retention and staffing difficulties. However, it is acknowledged that there needs to be further research which includes the views of people with learning disabilities. (Original abstract)
The experiences of staff taking on the role of lay therapist in a group-based cognitive behavioural therapy anger management intervention for people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- STIMPSON Aimée, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 26(1), 2013, pp.63-70.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study forms part of a wider research trial aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of a manualised cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) anger management intervention delivered to people with intellectual disabilities by staff in a day service setting. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of staff with regard to their role as ‘lay therapists’ facilitating CBT groups. The staff were trained and supervised by clinical psychologists. Two ‘lay therapists’ facilitated each of the groups without the presence of the clinical psychologist. Nine ‘lay therapists’ were interviewed 2–6 weeks after the last group session. Their experiences were explored by means of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Several key themes emerged from the interview data: hopes and fears; having a framework; making it work; observing progress; ingredients of success; the therapist role; and taking the group forward. The findings indicate that, although the therapist role had initially appeared daunting, the participants' experiences were perceived as positive for themselves, the service users, as well as the relevant organisation.
The myth of autism: medicalising men's and boys' social and emotional competence
- Authors:
- TIMIMI Sami, GARDNER Neil, McCABE Brian
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 344p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book, in collaboration with two ex-service users, re-examines, deconstructs and critiques modern mainstream theory and practice in relation to autism. It examines changes in the conceptualisation of autism in the West from a rare disorder affecting a small number of individuals with moderate to severe learning difficulties to becoming a broad continuum mainly diagnosed in males deemed to have poor social or emotional competence. Arguing that this change is primarily ideological the book describes how the medicalisation of boys' and men's social and emotional behaviour has a close relationship to social, political, economic, and cultural changes that have occurred in the West in recent decades. The conclusion is controversial: that the concept of Autism has become a hindrance rather than a help and so our whole approach to the diagnosis needs re-consideration, including the possibility that this diagnosis should be abandoned. Chapters include: introduction; case studies; the history of autism; the cult of child development; the biological evidence; classification; the problem of heterogeneity; gender; culture and socialization; culture as a cause of 'autistic' behaviours; the new eugenics; and autism re-examined.
Continuing journey
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, July 2011, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The vision of the Government strategy Valuing People Now is that all people with learning disabilities are people first with the same right to lead their lives as any others. This article reflects on the ongoing difficulties experienced by people with learning disabilities, the challenge of implementing improvements and opportunities for taking the agenda forward.
Preventing abuse in accommodation services: from procedural response to protective cultures
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Sally, CHENOWETH Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 15(1), March 2011, pp.63-74.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper considers the dominant policy and practice approaches of Australian disability accommodation services with respect to the abuse and neglect of people with learning disabilities, and questions the effectiveness of these approaches. The paper reviews international literature and provides practice examples to help develop a framework of current research, policy and practice in this area. Findings show that dominant policy and practice approaches do not give adequate consideration to the prevention and protection of people from harm, focusing primarily on responding to individual instances of maltreatment. Managerial, compliance-based systems may be deflecting attention from recognizing and responding more effectively to abuse and neglect at individual, systemic and structural levels. The current dominant approach fails to develop a culture of prevention and protection for people with intellectual disability. The authors concluded that some systemic and structural preconditions are set which make abuse and neglect less preventable.
Where is the person at the centre of all this block commissioning?
- Author:
- CLARE Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 99, Spring 2011, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
Some of the positive and negative views of tendering and its fitness for the personalisation agenda are discussed. The author argues that although block contracting is not well equipped to deliver personalised models of delivery,
Spot the difference
- Author:
- PENWARDEN Adam
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, April 2011, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
A brief overview of the aims of SPOT, a support planning outcomes tool, being developed by Turning Point to measure outcomes in learning disability services is provided. The tool is designed to help staff ensure that a service user's needs, wishes and goals and progress can be documented and evidence from the beginning.
Support staff working in intellectual disability services: the importance of relationships and positive experiences
- Author:
- HASTINGS Richard P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 35(3), September 2010, pp.207-210.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The author discusses the lack of research on the role of paid support staff working in intellectual disability services, focusing in particular on the lack of attention to theory and to building a theoretical/conceptual understanding of the role they fulfil. A brief overview is given of research in this field to date. The author suggests that there are two priorities for future research on support staff. These are to understand the relationships formed between support staff and individuals with intellectual disability and understanding the positive contributions that staff perceive that they benefit from directly as a result of their work. He indicates that there are some synergies between research agendas relating to support staff and family carers. It is suggested that finding out why support staff stay in their roles when aspects of their work are stressful, poorly paid, and often poorly supported, might lead down very different roots for practice than the more negatively focused questions such as why staff become stressed at work and why they leave their roles.
Good Learning Disability Partnership Boards: 'making it happen for everyone'
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This good practice guidance has been developed to help Learning Disability Partnership Boards to oversee the monitoring and delivery of Valuing People Now. The contents includes local governance arrangements, membership of Partnership Boards, good and effective meetings, work programmes, performance and financial management, and communication and awareness raising. Best practice examples and a self-assessment template setting out the range of local data that Partnership Boards can access to inorder to assess progress locally are also provided.