The role of relational work in promoting safe community participation by people with mild intellectual disabilities and severe challenging behaviour living in residential facilities

IF 2.9 2区医学 Q1 EDUCATION, SPECIAL

Research in Developmental Disabilities Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI:10.1016/j.ridd.2025.104946

Suzanne Lokman , Roland Bal , Robert Didden , Petri J.C.M. Embregts

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Abstract

Background

Promoting the level of community participation by people with mild intellectual disabilities who exhibit severe challenging behaviour is complex due to a variety of safety issues.

Method

This qualitative study explored what residential facilities for people with intellectual disabilities as well as their external stakeholders do to promote safe community participation, taking feelings of safety of service users and their environment into account. Interview and focus group data from professionals of residential facilities and stakeholders from the police and municipality were thematically analysed, resulting in the identification of two main themes.

Results

The first theme concerns taking risks responsibly together, by identifying, weighing up, and managing risks, whilst the second pertains to residential facilities and stakeholders’ ongoing efforts to change the perceptions and attitudes of the public and each other. Overall, the significance of relational work in promoting safe community participation was found.

Conclusions

Residential facilities and external stakeholders should invest in strengthening their relationship.

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Research in Developmental Disabilities Multiple-

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5.50

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6.50%

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178

期刊介绍： Research In Developmental Disabilities is aimed at publishing original research of an interdisciplinary nature that has a direct bearing on the remediation of problems associated with developmental disabilities. Manuscripts will be solicited throughout the world. Articles will be primarily empirical studies, although an occasional position paper or review will be accepted. The aim of the journal will be to publish articles on all aspects of research with the developmentally disabled, with any methodologically sound approach being acceptable.