... for the Prevention and Combating Family Violence. Two studies have been conducted in Cyprus concerning the perceptions of Cypriots (Intercollege, 2000) and health professionals on domestic violence (Apostolidou et al., 2008). These studies show that the male-dominant and patriarchic society of Cyprus...

...David Marsland; Peter Oakes; Caroline White Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the prevention of the abuse of older people in residential and nursing homes, through the identification of “early indicators of concern”. Such indicators support practitioners in identifying...

... solutions will be favoured (Mucciaroni, 1992). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Public health Policy Prevention Safeguarding Data collection Cost-effectiveness analysis The slow pace of development of national policy on safeguarding adults has been a source of frustration...

...Celia Harbottle; Maria R. Jones; Lee M. Thompson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to invite readers to consider a model of compassionate leadership to contribute to the prevention of abuse in collective care settings. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines a model...

... Mind demonstrates the urgent need for a shift in focus towards a prevention model of safeguarding, with service user involvement at its core. Currently, people feel disempowered by and frustrated with a paternalistic system that labels them ‘vulnerable’ and fails to take account of their preferences...

...Mick Collins; Mel Walford Adult protection is about prevention and, failing that, investigation and aftercare. This article describes innovative work in Powys, mid Wales, where trainers are working with vulnerable adults to help them to reduce the risk that they will be abused, or if the worst...

...Dave Marsland; Peter Oakes; Caroline White Although No Secrets suggests that adult protection practices should seek to prevent abuse, it can be argued that such practice predominately focuses on pursuing effective responses to abuse that has already happened, rather than preventing the onset...

... at an increased risk of sexual abuse are also discussed.As the teaching of protection and prevention skills to adults and children with intellectual disabilities has been put forward as an effective intervention to help avoid sexual abuse, a review of nine studies that attempted to evaluate such intervention...

...Claudine McCreadie This paper provides a commentary on research outcomes in the field of elder abuse and challenges assumptions about older people, carers, vulnerability and risk. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Elder abuse Policy Prevention Carers VIEW ED Policy PE ER·RE review A review...

... prevention Some years ago the mother of a young woman with a learning disability faced what must be one of the most traumatic experiences any parent of a vulnerable adult can suffer. Her daughter, who she thought was happily settled in a residential home run by a major national charity, was raped by a staff...

...Frances Blunden; Jo Nash This paper describes the work of the Prevention of Professional Abuse Network (POPAN). Professional abuse is described with an analysis of the contacts the organisation has received. There is also an analysis of the nature of abuse described and the effects of abuse...