It is becoming increasingly important for clinicians to justify the treatment approaches they use. This study illustrates one way of measuring therapeutic effectiveness in a small group of learning disabled individuals who frequently demonstrated aggressive or intimidating behaviours. The use of a self‐report measure, the Provocation Inventory (PI) to monitor change, can be easily implemented in everyday clinical practice. The PI allowed for responses to be categorised and consequently pre‐ and post intervention responses could be compared. Changes recorded using the PI were ambiguous in terms of ‘improvement’, although staff reports indicated group work to have been effective to some extent. The use of formal outcome measurements represents good clinical practice. Despite some limitations in the PI, some useful recommendations for its future use are documented.
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