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Adult attachment and care staff functioning
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Care staff around the world make huge differences every day in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Care staff provide support, advice and protection, and may scaffold the autonomous exploration and development of people with ID. By doing so, they enrich the network of meaningful social relationships that humans need to flourish. Similar to family relationships of young people with ID, better quality relationships between care staff and people with ID have been linked with fewer challenging behaviours in services. The goal of this chapter is to make a case for including attachment among the perspectives that should be considered in research, policy and practice around client-staff relationships. The central message of this chapter is that in order to improve care interactions and relationships, attention is required to understand attachment processes in people with ID and attachment processes in care staff as well. Implications of the small body of research on this issue will be discussed with regards to: policy and quality control, service development and organization, care staff and clients (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)
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2016
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Caregivers, Intellectual disability, Social psychology
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Schuengel, C., Clegg, J., de Schipper, J. C. & Kef, S. (2016). Adult attachment and care staff functioning. In: Fletcher, H. K., Flood, A. & Hare, D. J. (eds.) Attachment in intellectual and developmental disability: A clinician's guide to practice and research. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 151-171.
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Available in the Library: https://nottshc.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=104767