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Keep Safe: the development of a manualised group CBT intervention for adolescents with ID who display harmful sexual behaviours

Malovic, Aida, Rossiter, Rowena, Murphy, Glynis H. (2018) Keep Safe: the development of a manualised group CBT intervention for adolescents with ID who display harmful sexual behaviours. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 9 (1). pp. 49-58. ISSN 2050-8824. (doi:10.1108/JIDOB-10-2017-0023) (KAR id:67387)

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of Keep Safe, a manualised group intervention for adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) who display harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) as the initial phase of a feasibility study. National reports have highlighted the need for the development of specialist programmes, as adolescents with ID make up a significant proportion of young people referred to specialist HSB services and there is a lack of evidence or practice-based interventions for them. Aims included taking account of adolescents’ and families’ needs, motivations and practical commitments, integrating best- practice and being accessible and appropriate across different types of services.

Design/methodology/approach

Keep Safe development progressed from the practitioner/researcher collaborative young sex offender treatment services collaborative-ID through a project team, Keep Safe development group, comprising a range of practitioners with a variety of clinical expertise across services and an Advisory Group of people with ID. An expert-consensus methodology based on the Delphi method was used. The iterative process for the manual draws on the slim practice-based evidence from UK, New Zealand, North America and Australia.

Findings

Keep Safe comprises six modules distributed through 36 term-time young people’s sessions, alongside 16 concurrent parental/ carer sessions (some joint). The main focus of Keep Safe is to enhance well-being and reduce harm. Four initial sites volunteered as feasibility leads, and two more were added as recruitment was more difficult than foreseen.

Originality/value

National reports have highlighted the need for the development of specialist programmes, as adolescents with ID make up a significant proportion of young people referred to specialist HSB services and there is a lack of evidence or practice-based interventions for them. This study is innovative and valuable given the recognition that research and practice is significantly lacking in this area.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1108/JIDOB-10-2017-0023
Uncontrolled keywords: CBT, Intervention, Adolescents, Delphi method, Harmful sexual behaviours, IDD
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Tizard
Depositing User: Aida Malovic
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2018 13:59 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 17:10 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/67387 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Malovic, Aida.

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Rossiter, Rowena.

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Murphy, Glynis H..

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