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Personal Development, Relationships and Staying Safe

A Training Pack for Staff Supporting Adults with Intellectual Disabiliti
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This new training pack has a PowerPoint presentation to help ease the training, as well as a learner's workbook on the DVD. The aim of this training pack is to increase staff awareness and knowledge of the topic of promoting personal development and relationships, and to provide staff with practical skills to teach people with intellectual disabilities about these topics. This training pack can be a valuable resource for any staff who work with people with learning disabilities, and in particular their key workers.
Marie Walsh> is a registered psychologist with extensive experience in the area of intellectual disability. Marie currently works with both children and adults with intellectual disability who present with co-morbid conditions and behaviour that challenges. A long-time advocate for safeguarding vulnerable individuals with intellectual disability and the prevention of risks to vulnerable adults in various service settings, Marie strives to raise awareness of these issues with colleagues and organisations. It is the well-being of vulnerable adults that has motivated Marie to develop this training programme. Geraldine Cregg is a senior clinical psychologist who has worked in the field of Intellectual Disability since 1995. She has worked extensively with adult survivors of sexual abuse both with and without an Intellectual Disability and has worked primarily with service users who present with multiple and complex needs. Her heightened awareness of the vulnerability of those with the greatest levels of disability and high dependency needs led to her collaboration in the development of this training programme.
Personal Development, Relationships and Staying Safe covers a variety of modules and subject areas most noticeably: * Module 1: Self-awareness and self-identity * Module 2: Relationships * Module 3: Being safe and minimising risk * Module 4: Sexual expression
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