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The effects of experience and sexual abuse training on the attitudes of learning disability staff
Author(s) -
Hames A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2788.1996.01313.x
Subject(s) - sexual abuse , psychology , learning disability , perception , training (meteorology) , learning disabled , suicide prevention , psychiatry , clinical psychology , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , physics , neuroscience , meteorology
Abstract Staff employed in three day centres for people with learning disabilities were offered training in sexual abuse. Their knowledge and attitudes about sexual abuse were measured immediately before and after training. Staff were asked about their perceptions of the risks of people with learning disabilities being sexually abused, and their estimations of the probability of the perpetrator being either a member of staff, a client, a person known to the abused person or a stranger. Their responses were found to be influenced by the recent training and their prior personal experience.