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Dudley contract for multispecialty community provider includes mental health services as well as adult social care, LD and physical healthcare services. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
This study examined the attitudes, knowledge and experiences of practitioners in social services and child welfare working with mothers with intellectual disability. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
This qualitative study provides insight into the personal experiences and perceptions of adults with learning difficulties regarding their social-sexual lives.
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This study reports the experiences of developing and pre-testing an Easy Read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) for self-report by people with intellectual disabilities. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Despite awareness of the age related health needs of people with intellectual disabilities little is known regarding how residential social care staff are prepared to meet such needs. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
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The present study aimed to explore the applicability of the attribution model to social workers' attributions towards clients with dual diagnosis of intellectual disability and psychiatric illness. Specifically, the study examined the relations between social workers' attribution of responsibility, causality, stereotypes of dangerousness, their emotional reactions and behavioural reactions towards clients with dual diagnosis. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Intensive interaction (II) is a communication approach useful for working with people with severe intellectual disabilities. Health and social care providers offer II training courses to paid carers working in local services with the goal of improving social communication for their clients. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
2 June 2016: A report published today provides an overview of the number of people with learning disabilities and/or autism receiving inpatient care in hospital.
Women with a learning disability who experience domestic abuse receive intervention from both social services and the police. Responses from these services have increasingly become focused on notions of risk. This article uses governmentality theory to examine how risk is understood and managed by both services through a focus on policy and practice.
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The question at the heart of a new study (Marsland et al, 2015) is what makes the provision of appropriate, person-centred support that prevents and protects against abuse for people learning disabilities so difficult?
The authors suggest it can be viewed as a ‘wicked problem’ (a phrase coined by Burns et al, 2013) where ‘the proposed solutions create a different set of problems that themselves increase the likelihood of abuse’. The new paper is a reflection on whether the ‘current frenzy of policy, action and recommendation’ is likely to reduce the likelihood of abuse of people with learning difficulties by and within services.
A new report from PSSRU suggests that adapted parenting programmes for people with learning disabilities might be a cost-effective way of providing support for this group. The authors – Annette Bauer (Research Fellow) and Gemma Williams (Research Officer) – discuss their findings.
The concerns of older carers of an adult with disabilities have been well documented. The sudden incapacity or death of the carer can result in a crisis response rather than a planned transition to a chosen sustainable alternative care arrangement for the person with disability. Building on previous ‘Futures Planning’ projects, the aim of this project was to enrich the lives of people with disabilities and their carers whilst ensuring that their wishes for the future are documented to provide security. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library