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Cayleigh Dunworth; Dearbhaile Mahon; Jenny McSharry; Jennifer Holloway; Helena Lydon – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
In Ireland, the provision of behavior support services has developed following the introduction of Health Information and Quality Authority (2013) standards and the regulation of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) under the Health Act (2007). The purpose of this study was to explore what factors facilitate and act as barriers to implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Positive Behavior Supports, Barriers, Counselor Attitudes
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Heslop, Pauline; Byrne, Victoria; Calkin, Rachel; Gielnik, Kamila; Huxor, Avon – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
In England, the national mortality review programme for people with intellectual disabilities, the LeDeR programme, was established in 2015. The programme supports local areas to review the deaths of all people with intellectual disabilities aged 4 years and over. Each death has an initial review; if indicated, a full multi-agency review takes…
Descriptors: Mortality Rate, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Health Services
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Söderström, Sylvia; Bakken, Hege; Østby, May; Ellingsen, Karl E. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
The implementation of technology in home-based services takes place in contextualised socio-material practices negotiated through interactions between a diversity of actors. Prerequisites for succeeding in this process are time and competence, and that use of the technology is experienced as meaningful, for both the support staff and the resident.…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Caregivers
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Edwards, Nicole; King, Julie; Williams, Karen; Hair, Sara – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: Psychotropic medication is widely prescribed to treat mental illness. However, it is controversial when used as a chemical restraint (CR) to manage challenging behaviours (CBs) of adults with intellectual disability (ID). CR has potentially negative consequences and affects human rights. Method: Qualitative research conducted between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drug Therapy, Behavior Problems, Adults
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Auberry, Kathy; Cullen, Deborah – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Based on the results of the Surrogate Decision-Making Self Efficacy Scale (Lopez, 2009a), this study sought to determine whether nurses working in the field of intellectual disability (ID) experience increased confidence when they implemented the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) Seizure Algorithm during telephone triage. The…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Evidence Based Practice, Seizures, Computation
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Kelly, Michael; Humphrey, Charlotte – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: Care for clients with mental health problems and concurrent intellectual disability (dual diagnosis) is currently expected to be provided through the care programme approach (CPA), an approach to provide care to people with mental health problems in secondary mental health services. When CPA was originally introduced into UK mental…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Health Services
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Starke, Mikaela; Wade, Catherine; Feldman, Maurice A.; Mildon, Robyn – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
This article reports on the initial stages of implementing an Australian-based education programme for parents with intellectual disabilities (IDs) in Sweden. The clinical utility of the programme, Parenting Young Children (PYC), in the new country context is explored through Swedish professionals' experiences in learning and using it. Study…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Disabilities, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries