Staff reactions to self-injurious behaviours in learning disability services: Attributions, emotional responses and helping

British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 189-203

  Jones, Cheryl ^b   Hastings, Richard P ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTOMUTILATION; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0038142342     PISSN: 01446657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466503321903599     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Ajzen, I. (1985). From intentions to action: A theory of planned behavior. In J. Kuhl & J. Beckmanh (Eds.), Action Control: From Cognitions to Behaviors (pp. 11-39). New York: Springer.
2. Ajzen, I. (1988). Attitude, Personality and Behaviour. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
3. Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50, 179-211.
4. Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
5. Benson, P. L., Dehority, J., Garmon, L., Hanson, C., Hochschweider, M., Zebold, C., Rohr, R., & Sullivan, J. (1980). Interpersonal correlations of non-spontaneous helping behaviour. Journal of Social Psychology, 55, 52-77.
6. Carr, E. G., Taylor, J. C., & Robinson, S. (1991). The effects of severe behavior problems in children on the teaching behavior of adults. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 24, 523-535.
7. Conner, M., & Armitage, C. J. (1998). Extending the theory of planned behavior: A review and avenues for future research. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28, 1429-1464.
8. Dagnan, D., Trower, P., & Smith, R. (1998). Care staff responses to people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour: A cognitive-emotional analysis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 37, 59-68.
9. Emerson, E. (1995). Challenging Behaviour: Analysis and Intervention in People with Learning Disabilities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. Garety, P. A., & Morris, I. (1984). A new unit for long-stay psychiatric patients: Organization, attitude, and quality of care. Psychological Medicine, 14, 183-192.
11. Hall, S., & Oliver, C. (1992). Differential effects of self-injurious behaviour on the behaviour of others. Behavioural Psychotherapy, 20, 355-366.
12. Hall, S., Oliver, C., & Murphy, G. (2001). The early development of self-injurious behavior: An empirical study. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 106, 189-199.
13. Hastings, R. P. (1995). Understanding factors that influence staff responses to challenging behaviours: An exploratory interview study. Mental Handicap Research, 8, 296-320.
14. Hastings, R. P. (1996). Staff strategies and explanations for intervening with challenging behaviours. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 40, 166-175.
15. Hastings, R. P. (1999). The dialogue between research and application: A focus on practical issues in behavioral intervention. In J. R. Scotti & L. H. Meyer (Eds.), Behavioral Intervention: Principles, Models, and Practices (pp. 433-448). Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.
16. Hastings, R. P. (in press). Do challenging behaviors affect staff psychological well-being? Issues of causality and mechanism. American Journal on Mental Retardation.
17. Hastings, R. P., & Brown, T. (2000). Functional assessment and challenging behaviors: Some future directions. Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 25, 229-240.
18. Hastings, R. P., & Brown, T. (2002). Behavioural knowledge, causal beliefs, and self-efficacy as predictors of special educators' emotional reactions to challenging behaviours. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 46, 144-150.
19. Hastings, R. P., & Remington, B. (1994a). Rules of engagement: Toward an analysis of staff responses to challenging behavior. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 15, 279-298.
20. Hastings, R. P., & Remington, B. (1994b). Staff behaviour and its implications for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 33, 423-438.
21. Kushlick, A., Trower, P., & Dagnan, D. (1997). Applying cognitive-behavioural techniques to the carers of people with learning disabilities who display challenging behaviour. In B. S. Kroese, D. Dagnan, & K. Loumidis (Eds.), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Learning Disabilities (pp. 141-161). London: Routledge.
22. McAuley, E., Duncan, T. E., & Russell, D. W. (1992). Measuring causal attributions: The Revised Causal Dimension Scale (CDSII). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5, 566-573.
23. McGuinness, P., & Dagnan, D. (2001). Cognitive emotional reactions of care staff to difficult child behaviour. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 29, 295-302.
24. Mitchell, C., & Hastings, R. P. (1998). Learning disability care staff emotional reactions to aggressive challenging behaviours: Development of a measurement tool. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 37, 441-449.
25. Moores, B., & Grant, G. (1976). Nurse expectations for accomplishment of mentally retarded persons. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 80, 644-649.
26. Mossman, D. A., Hastings, R. P., & Brown, T. (2002). Mediators' emotional responses to self-injurious behavior: An experimental study. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 107(4), 252-260.
27. Oliver, C. (1995). Self-injurious behaviour in children with learning disabilities: Recent advances in assessment and intervention. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 36, 909-927.
28. Oliver, C., Hall, S., Hales, J., & Head, D. (1996). Self-injurious behaviour and people with intellectual disabilities: Assessing the behavioural knowledge and causal explanations of care staff. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 9, 229-239.
29. Sharrock, R., Day, A., Qazi, F., & Brewin, C. R. (1990). Explanations by professional care staff, optimism and helping behaviour: An application of attribution theory. Psychological Medicine, 20, 849-855.
30. Stanley, B., & Standen, P. J. (2000). Carers' attributions for challenging behaviour. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 39, 157-168.
31. Watts, M. J., Reed, T. S., & Hastings, R. P. (1997). Staff strategies and explanations for interventing with challenging behaviours: A replication in a community sample. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 41, 258-263.
32. Weiner, B. (1980). A cognitive (attribution)-emotion-action model of helping behavior: An analysis of judgements of help giving. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 1142-1162.
33. Weiner, B. (1985). An attribution theory of achievement, motivation and emotion. Psychological Review, 92, 548-573.
34. Weiner, B. (1986). An Attributional Theory of Motivation and Emotion. Springer: New York.
35. Weiner, B. (1993). On sin versus sickness: A theory of perceived responsibility and social motivation. American Psychologist, 48, 957-965.