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Individually designed residential provision for people with seriously challenging behaviours

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This chapter will describe and evaluate community-based residential services set up for people with severe learning disabilities and the most severely challenging behaviour in the South East Thames Region of England. The services considered are those set up with the assistance of the Special Development Team (Emerson and McGill, in press) but this chapter will focus on the services themselves rather than the work of the SDT.

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  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., Emerson, E., Mansell, J. (1994). Individually designed residential provision for people with seriously challenging behaviours. 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_6

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