Working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour.
Book
Allardyce, S., & Yates, P. (2018)
Working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press
‘At a time when a better-informed picture about the realities of child sexual abuse is urgently needed, this book provides a vital part of this complex jigsaw’ from the Forewo...
Early death and causes of death of people with Down syndrome: A systematic review
Journal Article
O'Leary, L., Hughes-McCormack, L., Dunn, K., & Cooper, S. (2018)
Early death and causes of death of people with Down syndrome: A systematic review. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 31(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12446
Background: It is thought that people with Down syndrome die younger than the general population, but that survival rates are improving.
Methods: Five databases were searched...
Early death and causes of death of people with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review
Journal Article
O'Leary, L., Cooper, S., & Hughes-McCormack, L. (2017)
Early death and causes of death of people with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12417
Background: Death of people with intellectual disabilities is considered to be earlier than for the general population.
Methods: Databases were searched for intellectual d...
Healthy lifestyle behaviours for people with intellectual disabilities: An exploration of organizational barriers and enablers
Journal Article
O'Leary, L., Taggart, L., & Cousins, W. (2018)
Healthy lifestyle behaviours for people with intellectual disabilities: An exploration of organizational barriers and enablers. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 31, 122-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12396
Background
The health-related behaviours of people with intellectual disabilities may be determined by organisational influences. This innovative study aimed to explore manage...
'Siblings as better together': Social worker decision-making in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour
Journal Article
Yates, P. (2017)
'Siblings as better together': Social worker decision-making in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour. British Journal of Social Work, bcx018(1), 176-194. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx018
Sibling abuse is arguably the most prevalent form of family violence (Meyers, 2014), with sibling sexual abuse more common than parental sexual abuse (Krienert and Walsh, 2011...
Social workers’ use of heuristics in risk assessment and decision making in cases involving sibling sexual abuse
Journal Article
Yates, P. (2016)
Social workers’ use of heuristics in risk assessment and decision making in cases involving sibling sexual abuse. Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherpie, 23(Supp 1), 164
Between 1/3 and 1/2 of sexual abuse perpetrated by children and young people involves siblings as victims. The currently available risk assessment tools give this little consi...
Working with fathers of at-risk children: Insights from a qualitative process evaluation of an intensive group-based intervention
Journal Article
Scourfield, J., Allely, C., Coffey, A., & Yates, P. (2016)
Working with fathers of at-risk children: Insights from a qualitative process evaluation of an intensive group-based intervention. Children and Youth Services Review, 69, 259-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.08.021
This article is based on qualitative research with fathers who attended Mellow Dads, an intensive ‘dads only’ group-based intervention underpinned by attachment theory for fat...
Sibling sexual abuse: why don't we talk about it?
Journal Article
Yates, P. (2017)
Sibling sexual abuse: why don't we talk about it?. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(15-16), 2482-2494. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13531
Aims and objectives
To explore two hypotheses for explaining why there is little written about sibling sexual abuse and to raise awareness of the subject in order better to pr...
Type 2 Diabetes education for adults with intellectual disabillities.
Journal Article
Truesdale-Kennedy, M., Taggart, L., Carey, M., Stacey, L., Madelia, P., Scott, J., …Northway, R. (2014)
Type 2 Diabetes education for adults with intellectual disabillities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 27(4), 297-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12107
Aim: Our goal was to adapt a self-management type 2 diabetes educationprogramme developed for the non-disabled population (DESMOND) for usewith adults with intellectual disabi...
Examining the support needs of ageing family carers in developing future plans for a relative with an intellectual disability
Journal Article
Taggart, L., Truesdale-Kennedy, M., Ryan, A., & McConkey, R. (2012)
Examining the support needs of ageing family carers in developing future plans for a relative with an intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 16(3), 217-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744629512456465
Background: Planning for the future care of adults with an intellectual disability after the main family carer ceases their care, continues to be a sensitive and difficult tim...