... Safeguarding Adult social care Sexual violence Sexual abuse The Criminal Prosecution Service defines sexual violence as encompassing nonconsensual sexual activity, including rape and sexual assault, crimes against children and exploitation for sexual purposes, both online and in person, as part...

...Avanish Bhai Patel Purpose Women are being victimized sexually everywhere today, whether it is at home or office. Women are targeted for molestation, eve-teasing, and rape and sometimes they are murdered after rape. The objective of the present study is to understand the trend of sexual abuse...

... and analyzed six hypotheses. Findings Results indicate that physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse and neglect negatively and significantly predicted welfare status. Though negatively related, social abuse and sexual abuse did not significantly predict welfare status. Practical implications...

... 02 12 2021 29 12 2021 18 01 2022 31 01 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sexual harassment Bisindo-based REBT Women with deafness Sexual abuse Disabilities Physical disabilities Sexual violence...

... deciding on the subsequent responses. This was illustrated in a situation described by Support Worker B. She remembered being called into a meeting with her team leaders to discuss protocols and safety measures because a resident in the house where she was working had been sexually abused by another...

...Heather Sequeira The aim of this paper is to gather information that will be useful to practitioners who are assessing and trying to understand the difficulties of people with intellectual disabilities who may have experienced sexual abuse. In the first part of this paper the research...

...Corinna Bruder; Biza Kroese This paper reviews the clinical interventions used to address the vulnerability of people with intellectual disabilities to sexual abuse. Prevalence of sexual abuse for this group is discussed. Factors that are considered to put people with intellectual disabilities...

...Katharine Jeary This article considers the wide‐ranging situations and circumstances in which sexual abuse of elderly people occurs and suggests that the complexities inherent in the issue mean that policy‐makers and practitioners face real challenges in minimising future instances of victimisation...

... and family, and staff. Despite the rhetoric of user involvement in adult protection literature, low levels of consultation for people with learning difficulties were found. Adult protection procedures People with learning difficulties Sexual abuse User involvement VIEW Research PE ER·RE paper ED...

...Guy Wishart Many factors have been identified as being responsible for increasing the vulnerability of people with learning difficulties to sexual abuse. However, there has not been a great deal of debate about the term ‘vulnerability’. Here, an argument is developed that puts forward the case...

...Alison Tarrant This article explores the law relating to the sexual abuse of people with learning difficulties and proposes a number of key changes that need to take place in order to offer people with learning difficulties greater protection from abuse. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Sexual...

...Alan Corbett This article emphasises the importance of meeting the counselling and therapy needs of people with learning difficulties who have been sexually abused, citing a case study example of the themes, issues and benefits which this way of working can generate. © MCB UP Limited 2003...

...Michelle McCarthy This article explores the sexual experiences of women with learning difficulties, highlighting the blurred nature of the boundary between abusive and consented sex. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Sexual abuse Consent Women with learning difficulties VIEW Research PE ER·RE...