Beyond the Surface of Consumer-Staff Relationships

Brown Jb, Johnnie Hamilton-Mason, Peter Maramaldi and L Jarrett Barnhill
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Brown Jb: Skills System, USA
Peter Maramaldi: Simmons College- School of Social Work, USA
L Jarrett Barnhill: University of North Carolina, USA

Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, 2018, vol. 4, issue 4, 59-64

Abstract: Individuals diagnosed with an intellectual disability (ID) demonstrate higher rates of challenging behaviors (CB) than do the general population [1-3]. The literature shows that environmental factors, including negative interactions with others, can contribute to CBs [4-6]. In their thematic analysis of 17 articles on the perspectives of consumers with CBs, Griffith, Hutchinson, and Hastings (2013) found that environmental factors such as “imbalances of power, “experiences of restrictive procedures†, and “impersonal attitudes of support staff†were “accumulative stressors of living in a residential placement†that potentially perpetuated CBs (p. 469). The authors described the “Cycle of Challenging Behaviors†(p. 482) where environments containing consumer-staff relationship imbalances potentially triggered individuals to engage in CBs, which lead to restrictive procedures; these interventions increased the individuals’ dissatisfaction, creating more power imbalances and cyclical patterns that elicited more CBs.

Keywords: Journal of Intellectual; Intellectual & Developmental; Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities; Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities; journal of intellectual disability research; journal of intellectual disabilities; journal of intellectual disability research impact factor; journal of intellectual property studies; open access publishers in usa; juniper publishers review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/GJIDD.2018.04.555641

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