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Accessible summary Practitioners within learning disability services rarely use organized actuarial assessments, preferring intuitive ones based on observation. There is little difference in risk assessment according to professional discipline. Sex offenders with learning disabilities require more systematic assessment to differentiate them from non-learning-disabled sex offenders. Resumen realizado por el/los autor/es
…Background: The At Home/Chez Soi (AH/CS) Project is a randomized controlled trial of a Housing First intervention to meet the needs of homeless individuals with mental illness in five cities across Canada. The objectives of this paper are to examine the approach to participant recruitment and community engagement at the Toronto site of the AH/CS […]
…This paper critically reflects on the Scottish Adult Support and Protection (ASP) study, a research project conducted at a time when oadult protection’ was understood in Scottish policies to be the professional response to oabuse’. During the course of analysing the ASP study data, it became apparent that practitioners themselves did not necessarily construct oabuse’ […]
…Drawing on data from a Scottish research study, this paper explores the relationship of professionals’ perceptions about specific perpetrators and victims to their constructions of ‘adult protection’ issues in practice. It finds that professionals’ perceptions of victim distress did not consistently coincide with the construction of adult protection issues, whilst the connection to any assessment […]
…Background Globally, at least 93 million children have moderate or severe disability. Children with disabilities are thought to have a substantially greater risk of being victims of violence than are their non-disabled peers. Establishment of reliable estimates of the scale of the problem is an essential first step in the development of effective prevention programmes. […]
…Study Design: This study is a literature review and a proposed conceptual model. Objectives: The objective of this study is to develop a conceptual model to explore the relationship between the presence of depressive symptoms and secondary physical complications such as pressure ulcers, urinary tract infections and autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injury (SCI). Setting: […]
…When nurses have active and untreated addictions, patient safety may be compromised and nurse-health endangered. Genuine responses are required to fulfil nurses’ moral obligations to their patients as well as to their nurse-colleagues. Guided by core elements of relational ethics, the influences of nursing organizational responses along with the practice environment in shaping the situation […]
…Background: Some studies have found higher rates of childhood sexual abuse in sex offenders while others have failed to find such relationships. Method: This study reviews the sexual and physical abuse histories of 156 male sex offenders with intellectual disability (ID), 126 non-sexual male offenders with ID and 27 female offenders with ID. Results: Sexual […]
…The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare a group of Indian dental students’ attitudes toward HIV-positive status, substance misuse, intellectual disability, acute mental illness, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) orientation. Two hundred and twelve students at various stages in the dental curriculum anonymously completed the Medical Condition Regard Scale (MCRS) for […]
…Like the general population in South Africa, adolescents with deafness or who are hard-of-hearing may be vulnerable to HIV infection. They are exposed to all known risk factors for HIV infection. Educators who work in schools for Deaf (meaning culturally deaf) and hard-of-hearing adolescents can provide valuable information about HIV-risk factors for these youths. We […]
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