Staff in services for people with learning disabilities: an overview of current issues
- Authors:
- HATTON Chris, EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(4), 1996, pp.215-236.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Despite the obvious importance of high quality staff performance for achieving the aims of community care policy, it is only recently that attention in the UK has begun to be focussed on staffing issues in services for people with learning disabilities. Discusses possible reasons for this increase in activity and introduces the content of the issue - which concentrates on demonstrating the range of approaches currently being used in UK research concerning staff in-services for people with learning disabilities.
- Subject terms:
- learning disabilities, stress, staff;
- Content type:
- research
- Link:
- Journal home page
- ISSN print:
- 0952-9608