2005
DOI: 10.1177/1744629505054271
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A focus group enquiry into stress experienced by staff working with people with challenging behaviours

Abstract: A focus group is a group of people with a shared interest who meet to discuss a particular topic and generate information and opinion. Initially developed for use in market research, focus groups have been widely used in research and are often used in health and social care research. There is an increasing use of focus groups within learning disability settings both with staff and with service users. In this study a series of explorative focus groups gathered information from community staff regarding their ex… Show more

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“…They have also reported stress resulting from extra work load, fear of injury and parents pursuing legal action (Kelly, Carey, McCarthy & Coyle, 2007), and that the function of behaviour can affect emotions in staff (Hastings, Tombs, Monzani & Boulton, 2003;Mossman, Hastings & Brown, 2002). (Dagnan, 2007;Fish, 2000;Jahoda & Wanless, 2005;Lundström, Åström & Graneheim, 2007;Raczka, 2005;Whittington & Burns, 2005) and quantitative studies (Bell & Espie, 2002;Lambrechts, Kuppens & Maes, 2009;Lundström, Saveman, Eisemann & Åström, 2007;. Therefore this link has been depicted in Figure 1.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…They have also reported stress resulting from extra work load, fear of injury and parents pursuing legal action (Kelly, Carey, McCarthy & Coyle, 2007), and that the function of behaviour can affect emotions in staff (Hastings, Tombs, Monzani & Boulton, 2003;Mossman, Hastings & Brown, 2002). (Dagnan, 2007;Fish, 2000;Jahoda & Wanless, 2005;Lundström, Åström & Graneheim, 2007;Raczka, 2005;Whittington & Burns, 2005) and quantitative studies (Bell & Espie, 2002;Lambrechts, Kuppens & Maes, 2009;Lundström, Saveman, Eisemann & Åström, 2007;. Therefore this link has been depicted in Figure 1.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…The figure also shows the association between attributions and negative emotions as shown for specific attributions of controllability (Dagnan & Weston, 2006;Wanless & Jahoda, 2006) and internality (Dagnan & Cairns, 2005;Wanless & Jahoda, 2006). Although attributions and negative emotions appear to play a major role, other staff characteristics have been shown to be important, including coping resources (Mitchell & Hastings, 2001;Raczka, 2005;Robertson et al 2005;Whittington & Burns, 2005); more recently personality, as introduced by the quantitative studies (Chung & Harding, 2009;Lundström, Graneheim, Eisemann, Richter & Åström, 2007); and self-efficacy (Howard, Rose & Levenson, 2009). With regards to selfefficacy, the qualitative studies appear to allude to this construct with themes of powerlessness (Lundström, Åström & Graneheim, 2007), inadequacy (Fish, 2000) and feeling unable to manage challenging behaviour (Dagnan, 2007).…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Raczka [23] highlighted some of these difficulties and gathered information from community staff regarding their experiences of stress when working with people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours.…”
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“…Bering (2010) argues that the needs and wishes of people with challenging behaviour needs to be well understood in order to make commissioning decisions; however, much of the qualitative research published in the area of ''challenging behaviour'' focuses on the experiences of care staff (Thompson et al, 1997;Whittington and Burns, 2005;Raczka, 2005). Where service user perspectives on challenging behaviour have been sought, the service users were not diagnosed with intellectual disabilities (Sequeira and Halstead, 2002).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%