Behaviour disturbance and mental handicap: typology and longitudinal trends

SynopsisBehaviour disturbance was investigated in mentally handicapped adults who were living in hospital or at home. The first part of the study describes an empirically derived typology of disturbed behaviour patterns and gives the details of a scale by means of which behaviour disturbance can be quantified along six dimensions: aggression, mood disturbance, communicativeness, antisocial conduct, idiosyncratic mannerisms, and self-injury. The second part of the study used the scale in a longitudinal study of behavioural disturbance. Different forms of disturbed behaviour exhibited different kinds of longitudinal stability, and the long-term changes in one aspect of disturbance depended on subjects' other disturbance scores.

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Sexual abuse of the mentally handicapped: difficulties in establishing prevalence

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.15.10.601 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 15 (10) ◽

pp. 601-605 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Ann Buchanan ◽

Robert Wilkins

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Sexually Abused ◽

Sexual Exploitation ◽

Mentally Handicapped ◽

Mental Handicap ◽

Mental Health Legislation ◽

Management Positions ◽

The Right ◽

Health Legislation

That adults with mental handicap∗ are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation is not new, although relatively unacknowledged or investigated. Indeed successive acts under the mental health legislation have sought to protect them, particularly those with severe mental handicap. With the growing awareness and identification of sexual abuse of children, and the growing knowledge of the long-term psychological effects (Jehu, 1989), which may be even more severe for people who have disabilities (Kennedy, 1990; Sinason, 1989), it has been acknowledged that not only are the mentally handicapped particularly vulnerable to abuse (Benedict et al, 1990), but the problem may well be seriously underestimated by those working in management positions (Brown & Craft, 1989). While it is recognised that the mentally handicapped have rights and need to express their sexuality, they also have the right not to be exploited or abused. We therefore need to know more about the numbers, indicators and circumstances where this group may be sexually abused and to develop policies, systems and training to protect them (Brown & Craft, 1989). This pilot study was a step in this process.

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Providing a community mental handicap service

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/s0955603600106531 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 16 (01) ◽

pp. 20-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

D. J. Hall ◽

L. F. Pieri

Keyword(s):

Royal College ◽

Consumer Satisfaction ◽

Long Term Care ◽

Community Care ◽

Medical Audit ◽

Mentally Handicapped ◽

Term Care ◽

Mental Handicap

It is acknowledged that assessing ‘consumer satisfaction’ is an important part of medical audit (The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991). For the mentally handicapped, it can be argued that ‘carer satisfaction’ is particularly relevant. This is particularly so at a time when the ‘community’ is being advocated as the preferred setting for the long-term care of the mentally handicapped, the families and neighbours of the handicapped being the main providers of this ‘community care’ (Griffiths, 1988).

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Evaluation of Components of the Purdue Creative Thinking Program: A Longitudinal Study

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1971.29.2.395 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 395-398 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Stuart M. Speedie ◽

Donald J. Treffinger ◽

John F. Feldhusen

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Divergent Thinking ◽

Fourth Grade ◽

Sixth Grade ◽

Short Term ◽

Long Term Changes ◽

Over Time ◽

Better Than

This study investigated whether effects of the Purdue Creative Thinking Program (PCTP) were persistent over time. Students were pretested and then instructed for 14 wk. with one of the three PCTP components or a combination. Seven months later, divergent thinking measures were administered to 456 fourth, fifth and sixth grade pupils. For most treatments, no group was significantly better than controls across the outcome variables on the longitudinal tests. However, in the fourth grade, two instructional components were still effective. Thus short-term training (14 wk.) may not produce long-term changes in divergent thinking abilities.

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Moral emotion attributions and personality traits as long-term predictors of antisocial conduct in early adulthood

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025412472409 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 192-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tobias Krettenauer ◽

Jens B. Asendorpf ◽

Gertrud Nunner-Winkler

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Antisocial Behavior ◽

Indirect Effects ◽

Early Adulthood ◽

Moral Emotion ◽

Personality Factors ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Antisocial Conduct

The study investigated long-term relations between moral emotion attributions in childhood and adolescence and antisocial conduct in early adulthood while taking into account potentially confounding personality factors. Specifically, onset of prediction, unique and indirect effects of moral emotion attributions were examined. In a longitudinal study of 143 children (67 females), measures of moral emotion attributions, conscientiousness and agreeableness were obtained at the ages of 4–7, 11–12, 18 and 23 years. Antisocial conduct was assessed at the age of 23 years. Moral emotion attributions predicted antisocial behavior not before late adolescence. This effect was independent of conscientiousness and agreeableness. Moreover, moral emotion attributions indirectly contributed to the prediction of antisocial conduct by predicting change in conscientiousness. Overall, findings suggest that the emotions adolescents anticipate in the context of (im)moral actions contribute to development of antisocial conduct independently of personality traits.

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Training in Life Skills for Community-Based People with a Mental Handicap

British Journal of Occupational Therapy ◽

10.1177/030802268805100706 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 51 (7) ◽

pp. 236-238 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jill French

Keyword(s):

Independent Living ◽

Life Skills ◽

Mentally Handicapped ◽

Community Based ◽

Mental Handicap ◽

Training Facility ◽

Handicapped People ◽

And Training

This article is an account of a unit which provides facilities for assessment and training in skills of independent living for mentally handicapped people who are already living in the community. Many of these people have never been long-term hospital residents but have lived in the community with little or no training facility available to meet their specific needs.

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