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How do people with intellectual disabilities view abuse and abusers?
No full textPeople with intellectual disabilities have a higher risk of being abused than other people but to date research has not explored their views regarding abuse. This paper reports the findings relating to one question within a participatory research study concerning the abuse of people with intellectual disabilities. This question asked what people with intellectual disabilities’ views are concerning abuse. Data were gathered via individual interviews (n = 14) and focus groups (7 groups involving 47 people in total) then analysed via a process of sorting statements into themes followed by group discussion and analysis of these themes. Participants expressed a range of views regarding abuse some of which revealed strong emotions: a number of participants indicated that abuse could make people feel as though their lives are not worth living. People with intellectual disabilities can discuss their feelings around abuse and recognise the impact this has on their lives. There is, however, a need for improved responses to disclosures of abuse and the provision of on-going support to address psychological issues.This paper arose form a study funded by the Big Lotter
Supporting the significant other in women undergoing abortion
No full textAbortion remains an ethical, legal and professional challenge to nurses. In the last decade there have been many innovations in abortion care and nurses have developed woman-centred, responsive services. Despite this progress, the needs of significant others - particularly partners attending with women - have yet to be fully met. A significant other is encouraged to stay with the woman during certain parts of the procedure if it is a surgical abortion, or may remain with the woman continuously during a medical abortion. There are benefits in encouraging significant others to stay with the woman, including the provision of additional support during the procedure as well as health promotion opportunities. The nurse has a vital function in assisting them in their role, as it is essential that significant others are adequately prepared and supported throughout. Providing they are managed proactively, involving significant others in supporting the woman undergoing abortion is commended
Identifying and preventing health problems among young drug-misusing offenders
Get PDFPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the health problems and treatment needs of drug-misusing offenders and to draw out the implications of the findings for health education and prevention. Design/methodology/approach – This analysis is based on data collected as part of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) programme. The survey was based on interviews and urine sample collection with over 3,000 arrestees. Findings – The research found that young arrestees experienced a wide range of drug-related and general health problems. The implications of this are discussed in the context of programmes implemented as part of the government’s drug strategy. Originality/value – The NEW-ADAM surveys provide an original source of information on the drug and general health needs of young people at the first point of entry in the criminal justice system
Keeping safe and providing support: a participatory survey about abuse and people with intellectual disabilities
No full textAbstract
Background: While people with intellectual disabilities are at increased risk of abuse their views regarding this have not been explored.
Specific aims: To explore what help people with intellectual disabilities feel they need to keep safe and, if they are abused, what support do they need.
Method: A questionnaire was distributed to 47 participants with intellectual disabilities attending a residential research event and as a postal survey across Wales.
Findings: 107 useable questionnaires were returned (56% response rate). Respondents identified most strategies for keeping safe as being useful, but were more likely to identify personal strategies rather than actions other people could take. Where abuse does occur having someone to speak to, that you can trust, and who will believe you were viewed as most important.
Discussion: People with intellectual disabilities can identify personal safety strategies and their views and experiences should inform personal safety courses and staff training. Effective circles of support need to be developed both to protect against abuse and to provide support should it occur.This paper arose from a project funded by the Big Lotter
Strengthening primary care research in Wales
No full textThe Welsh Assembly Government is committed to the development of evidence-based policy and practice, and in 2005 it invested in the development of the Clinical Research Collaboration in Wales (CRC Cymru). This included the development of thematic research networks, methodological support units and the CRC Cymru co-ordinating centre. ....
Towards a comparative history of Communism: the British and German Communist parties to 1933
No full textThe article compares select characteristics of the British and German communist parties from 1918 until 1933. While finding sociological similarities it identified the differences in mass support in terms of political culture
Service provision for women undergoing termination of pregnancy: progress in Wales, UK
No full textBackground. This audit established a recent picture of termination of pregnancy services in Wales, UK using the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Guidelines as a baseline. The context of abortion is rapidly changing and services need to be adaptable to meet women's needs. Methods. A questionnaire survey was sent to all National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in Wales; 10 out of 13 responded. Results. In the nine Trusts performing abortions in Wales, medical abortions accounted for 57% and surgical abortions for 43%. Doctors in training were involved in six Trusts. All but one Trust complied with referral times. Five Trusts provided a dedicated clinic. Written information provided prior to abortion varied in accessibility and quality. Choice of abortion within gestation bands was limited in some Trusts with some only providing medical termination. Essential abortion aftercare was performed by Trusts, whereas follow-up and counselling were less comprehensive. Discussion. Trusts are willing to adapt to new methods of working with an increasing number of medical terminations, although this advantage was offset by a lack of choice of abortion methods offered by some Trusts. Doctors in training should be offered exposure to abortion procedures in all Trusts as this has been shown elsewhere to improve attitudes. Providing dedicated abortion clinics, quality written information and comprehensive abortion aftercare should improve compliance with the guidelines. Conclusion. Overall, in Wales there is compliance with national guidelines, although for a number of the guideline recommendations, there remains room for improvement
The stained glass closet: celibacy and homosexuality in the Church of England to 1955
No full textExplores the changing relationship between celibacy and homosexuality in the early twentieth century. The 1954 Church of England Moral Welfare Report, The Problem of Homosexuality, emerged out of a deliberate silence regarding homosexuality in the Church. This chapter traces the development of the very idea of sexuality through fragments scattered through Church archives preceding the 1954 report, and explores the significance of the report itself. It has been structured to reflect the partial nature of its sources, and links the development of Anglican sexuality through a series of moments where documentation of the Church’s explicit engagement with sexuality has survived. The article details the gradual incorporation of medico-psychoanalytic understandings of sexuality into the Anglican moral order. It highlights how sexuality became an identity category, how this affected understandings of celibacy, and the ways that moral and medical understandings of sexuality became interwoven between 1930 and 1950
Beyond the View
No full textResearch ContextThe theoretical context for the research was drawn from alternative approaches to modernist models of vision proposed by Rosalind Krauss and her discussions of a rhythm or pulse which functions against the stability of visual space and has the power to decompose and dissolve the coherence of form upon which visuality may be thought to depend.Research ImperativesThe research explores relationships between vision and touch with specific reference to the computer screen and the process of erasure through drawing. It investigated new ways of subverting methods of application and function embedded in pre- designed computer imaging software such as Photoshop