This study explores the perceptions of support workers working with adults with learning/intellectual disabilities, training and support needs. Data was collected by focus group (n = 3) and semi-structured interviews (n = 5). Participants saw their key role as maximising quality of life, identified "Trial and error" as the main mode of skill…

Presents a follow-up assessment of 18 outpatient clients who participated one year earlier in a coping skills curriculum of progressive relaxation, anxiety management, assertiveness, and self-reinforcement. Results revealed that coping-skills subjects held attitudes about the etiology of psychological problems consistent with those modeled during…

This paper describes the use of a particular therapeutic modality--behavioral groups--in a relatively new delivery system called a Health Maintenance Organization. The program described, run under the George Washington University Health Plan, offers short-term structured groups designed to aid people at particularly difficult or vulnerable…