Staff Support, Staff Stress and Job Satisfaction in Working with People with Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours

Abstract

If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. ABSTRACT In the context of a staff development programme, the relationships between work-related stress, staff support and job satisfaction were explored among staff groups in two residential assessment and treatment facilities for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. Although overall support was relatively high for both formal and informal supports, only the informal supports from colleagues were negatively correlated with ratings of workrelated stress. Work-related stress and job satisfaction were shown to be independent factors, and thus levels of stress could not be inferred from overall ratings of job satisfaction, or vice versa.The study identified a potentially vulnerable group of staff who reported relatively high job satisfaction but also some degree of stress.Learning Disability Review VOLUME 12 ISSUE 4 DECEMBER 2007 © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Limited

Experienced support at work, team climate and collaboration in teams working with people with mild intellectual disabilities and severe challenging behaviour in residential care: a cross‐sectional study

“…These results confirmed outcomes of studies conducted within the field of IDs and CB based on smaller sample sizes (e.g. Rose et al 2006;Leyin & Wakerly 2007). With regard to job satisfaction, positive correlations were found for support at work from all four groups of professionals as well as for team climate.…”

“…2021). Previous studies conducted amongst staff have also indicated the important role that other staff members play in the provision of support (Leyin & Wakerly 2007; Judd et al . 2017).…”

“…Rose et al . 2006; Leyin & Wakerly 2007). With regard to job satisfaction, positive correlations were found for support at work from all four groups of professionals as well as for team climate.…”

‘You have to care.’ perceptions of promoting autonomy in support settings for adults with intellectual disability

“…), depression and stress (Gray‐Stanley et al . ; Leyin & Wakerly ) and challenging ethical issues (Wilson et al . ).…”

“…This is especially true for people with more significant disabilities who may have the most compromised autonomy of any group (Lakin et al 2008). Support workers, themselves, face challenges that impact their ability to promote autonomy within support services, including: high turnover rates (Larson & Lakin 1999), lack of support workers for hire , inadequate wages (Hewitt et al 2008;Larson & Lakin 1999;Test et al 2003), inadequate training (Test et al 2004), depression and stress (Gray-Stanley et al 2010;Leyin & Wakerly 2007) and challenging ethical issues (Wilson et al 2008). Because support workers are in a unique position to promote or inhibit autonomy (Grimby 2002), these issues also directly impact people with intellectual disability in a way that can potentially diminish their autonomy (Test et al 2003).…”