Journal article
Increasing day service staff capacity to facilitate positive relationships with people with severe intellectual disability
The social relationships model was developed to describe positive relationships between support staff and people with intellectual disability. This article evaluates an educational intervention based on this model.
Report
Improving staff capacity to form and facilitate relationships for people with severe intellectual disability: ‘it’s a slow process’
The study aim discussed in this report was to evaluate whether an intervention based on the relationship model would lead to change in the frequency of social interaction, and the nature of the relationship between direct support staff and people with severe intellectual disability.