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How Service-Users with Intellectual Disabilities Understand Challenging Behaviour and Approaches to Managing It
- Source :
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Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities . Sep 2019 32(5):1203-1215. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Background: This study explored understandings that service-users with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour held around their behaviour, what shaped these understandings, and the relationship between how behaviours are managed and well-being. Methods: Eight participants (three female, five male) partook in individual semi-structured qualitative interviews. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results: Three master themes emerged from this analysis: (a) challenging behaviour can be explained via an internal or external frame of reference, with each framework having different implications for how participants attempted to manage behaviour. (b) Positive relationships provide a long-term buffer to challenging behaviour, with positive relationships with family, staff and peers operating through different mechanisms to achieve this. (c) A greater ability to exert power and control in day-to-day life was perceived to reduce challenging behaviour in the long term. Conclusions: Implications for practice are discussed.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1360-2322
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1223808
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12612