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The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database (2020)
Journal Article
Clawson, R., Patterson, A., Fyson, R., & McCarthy, M. (2020). The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database. Journal of Adult Protection, 22(2), 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1108/jap-09-2019-0029

Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare the UK demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and people without learning disabilities to inform effective safeguarding practice. Design/methodology/approach An analys... Read More about The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database.

Staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential settings for adults with intellectual disabilities (2019)
Journal Article
Fyson, R., & Patterson, A. (2020). Staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential settings for adults with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 33(3), 354-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12677

Background A common factor in the abuse of people with intellectual disabilities in residential settings has been the failure of care staff and frontline managers to recognise poor practice at an early stage and prevent its development into a cult... Read More about Staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential settings for adults with intellectual disabilities.

Impact of the Macmillan specialist Care at Home service: a mixed methods evaluation across six sites (2018)
Journal Article
Johnston, B., Patterson, A., Bird, L., Wilson, E., Almack, K., Mathews, G., & Seymour, J. (2018). Impact of the Macmillan specialist Care at Home service: a mixed methods evaluation across six sites. BMC Palliative Care, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-018-0281-9

Background: The Midhurst Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care at Home Service was founded in 2006 to improve community-based palliative care provision. Principal components include; early referral; home-based clinical interventions; close partnershi... Read More about Impact of the Macmillan specialist Care at Home service: a mixed methods evaluation across six sites.

'I was just gobsmacked': care workers responses to BBC Panoramas 'Undercover care: the abuse exposed': invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices (2016)
Journal Article
Patterson, A., & Fyson, R. (2016). 'I was just gobsmacked': care workers responses to BBC Panoramas 'Undercover care: the abuse exposed': invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices. Discourse and Society, 27(6), 607-623. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516665555

This paper draws upon discourse analytic techniques and discursive psychology to examine how care workers build accounts of viewing the BBC Panorama programme “Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed” which graphically documented the abuse of people with... Read More about 'I was just gobsmacked': care workers responses to BBC Panoramas 'Undercover care: the abuse exposed': invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices.