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Helping People with Learning Disability to Cope with Bereavement
Author(s) -
James Ian A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1995.tb00168.x
Subject(s) - learning disability , psychology , intervention (counseling) , challenging behaviour , work (physics) , nursing , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , engineering
Emerson (1977) claims that as much as 50% of the emotional and management difficulties of people with learning disabilities, requiring crisis intervention, may be directly or indirectly associated with a death or loss. The current paper attempts to review the recent work on loss in the learning disabled. It uses a 10‐item categorical list adapted from Donnelly's (1990) 10 principles of counselling. The work was initially designed to be a practical guide for carers, following a request for help from nursing staff. As a consequence, this review includes a number of specific suggestions on how to care for people with learning disabilities who have suffered a recent loss.