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Organizing community placements

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Severe Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours

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This chapter will first point to the ways in which placements for people with challenging behaviour often fail to deliver a satisfactory service. It will be argued that this failure is directly related to the occurrence and exacerbation of challenging behaviour. The characteristics of a more successful service will be described. The main part of the chapter will consider the ways in which services can organize themselves to produce such characteristics. Finally the chapter will consider the arguments often used against such an organizational technology and point to some of the requirements for successful implementation.

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  1. Peter McGill
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  2. Sandy Toogood
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Hester Adrian Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Eric Emerson MSc, FBPsS, C. Psychol (Deputy Director) (Deputy Director)

  2. Centre for the Applied Psychology of Social Care, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7LZ, UK

    Peter McGill MPhil, AFBPsS, C. Psychol (Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology of Learning Disability) & Jim Mansell MSc(Econ), AFPsS, C. Psychol (Director, Professor of Applied Psychology of Learning Disability) (Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology of Learning Disability) &  (Director, Professor of Applied Psychology of Learning Disability)

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McGill, P., Toogood, S. (1994). Organizing community placements. In: Emerson, E., McGill, P., Mansell, J. (eds) Severe Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2961-7_10

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