Evaluating a visual communications tool to explore risk and safety with nurses and patients within an intellectual disability forensic service: A pilot study
Abstract:Background: Issues of risk and safety can be challenging to discuss with forensic patients 7 with an intellectual disability. Talking Mats is a visual communication tool that facilitates 8 therapeutic conversations. 9 Method: A pilot study, adopting an ethnographic approach, was used to evaluate Talking 10 Mats. Interviews and video observations were conducted with nurses and forensic patients 11 with an intellectual disability from two forensic wards in Scotland. 12 Results: Exploratory evidence suggests that… Show more
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