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Assessment of Job Satisfaction in People with Intellectual Disabilities: Towards Best-Practice Recommendations
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Kocman, Andreas; Weber, Germain – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: The current body of research on job satisfaction of people with intellectual disability is based on highly diverse measures, originating both from the general population and people with intellectual disability. This heterogeneity represents a possible confounder. Best-practice approaches for the assessment of job satisfaction are hence…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Job Satisfaction, Severe Intellectual Disability, Best Practices
Predicting Institutional Violence in Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities: The Predictive Efficacy of the VRAG and the HCR-20
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Fitzgerald, Suzanne; Gray, Nicola S.; Alexander, Regi T.; Bagshaw, Ruth; Chesterman, Paul; Huckle, Phillip; Jones, Susan K.; Taylor, John; Williams, Tegwyn; Snowden, Robert J. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: There is a developing evidence base to support the use of risk assessment instruments in offenders with intellectual disability (ID). The aim of this study was to try to develop this literature with the inclusion of a control group of mentally disordered offenders without an ID, using the HCR-20 and VRAG. Materials and Methods: The…
Descriptors: Violence, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Foreign Countries
Development and Preliminary Validation of the QUALITRA-ID-P: A User-Orientated Questionnaire for Parents and Relatives to Assess the Quality of Care and Service Trajectories for Intellectually Disabled Persons
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Barelds, Anna; van de Goor, Ien; van Heck, Guus; Schols, Jos – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2011
Background: Care and service trajectories for people with intellectual disabilities are routes within the health care delivery system that consist of all the steps that people with intellectual disability and their families have to take in order to realize needed care and services. In contrast to the growing body of system-orientated knowledge…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Focus Groups, Interviews
The Reliability, Validity and Practical Utility of Measuring Supports Using the I-CAN Instrument: Part II
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Riches, Vivienne C.; Parmenter, Trevor R.; Llewellyn, Gwynnyth; Hindmarsh, Gabrielle; Chan, Jeff – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Background: There is an urgent need for developing reliable, valid and practical instruments that assess and classify the support needed by persons with disability to function in their chosen living, working and social environments. I-CAN is an instrument that addresses the frequency and level of support needed (not individual skills or deficits)…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Empowerment, Social Influences, Evaluation Methods
Developing Measures of Job Performance for Support Staff in Housing Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities
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Hatton, Chris; Wigham, Sarah; Craig, Jaime – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Background: There is an absence of research concerning the assessment of housing support worker job performance, particularly in the development of job performance measures that reflect the priorities of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. Method: A worker-oriented job analysis method was used to develop four short job…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Mental Retardation, Job Performance, Housing
The Beck Depression Inventory II and the Beck Anxiety Inventory in People with Intellectual Disabilities: Factor Analyses and Group Data
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Lindsay, William R.; Skene, Danielle D. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: There have been several developments in research on emotional disorders in people with intellectual disability (ID). Although a large amount of work has been completed in mainstream clinical fields on the "Beck Anxiety Inventory" (BAI) and the "Beck Depression Inventory"-2nd Edition (BDI-II), to date there has been…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Emotional Disturbances, Factor Structure, Psychometrics
"I Get by with a Little Help from My Friends": Adults with Intellectual Disability Discuss Loneliness
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McVilly, Keith R.; Stancliffe, Roger J.; Parmenter, Trevor R.; Burton-Smith, Rosanne M. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Background: This study explored "loneliness" as experienced by adults with intellectual disability, with "intermittent" to "limited" support needs. Method: A measure of loneliness was piloted, and qualitative techniques used to develop a greater understanding of the participants' experience. Results: The Loneliness Scale proved valid and reliable…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Social Networks, Psychological Patterns
Risk Assessment: Actuarial Prediction and Clinical Judgement of Offending Incidents and Behaviour for Intellectual Disability Services
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Lindsay, William R.; Beail, Nigel – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2004
Background: Research on prediction of violent and sexual offending behaviour has developed considerably in the mainstream criminological literature. Apart from one publication [Quinsey (2004) "Offenders with Developmental Disabilities," pp. 131-142] this has not been extended to the field of intellectual disabilities. Methods: Work on actuarial…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Predictive Validity, Prediction