Effectiveness of a Multidisciplinary Expertise Team in the reduction of restrictive measures in sheltered care homes for people with an intellectual disability.

Minimizing restrictive measures is an important lever to promote self-determination for people with intellectual disabilities. This study assesses the efficacy of the Multidisciplinary Expertise Team (MDET) program in reducing such measures within Dutch sheltered care homes for people with intellectual disabilities. A clustered randomized trial encompassed 30 residential units, reporting 428 measures on 107 residents through an organization-wide registration system.

Expectant parents with intellectual disabilities in child protection: Risk factors for child safety.

Background: Newborns of parents with intellectual disabilities face higher risks in their environment for child unsafety, despite parents' good intentions. To help parents prevent unsafe circumstances, a good understanding of the risk factors faced by these parents is needed.

Methods: This casefile study examined (1) which risk factors were present for expectant parents with intellectual disabilities in child protection, (2) which domains of risk factors, and (3) whether a cumulation of risk factors was related to child safety.

The first 1001 days: A scoping review of parenting interventions strengthening good enough parenting in parents with intellectual disabilities.

There are concerns about parents' parenting skills with intellectual disabilities. However, it is reported that parents with intellectual disabilities show good enough parenting if they are supported effectively and in line with their needs. This scoping review identifies and critically evaluates preventive interventions for parents with intellectual disabilities a cumulation of multiple and complex problems that aim to prepare them for good enough parenting.

Social information processing, normative beliefs about aggression and parenting in children with mild intellectual disabilities and aggressive behavior.

Background: High levels of aggressive behavior in children with mild intellectual disabilities to borderline intellectual functioning (MID-BIF) are associated with deviant social information processing (SIP) steps. The current study investigated deviant SIP as a mediating mechanism linking both children's normative beliefs about aggression and parenting to aggressive behavior in children with MID-BIF. Additionally, the mediating role of normative beliefs about aggression in linking parenting and deviant SIP was investigated.

Explaining Risk Factors for Successful Family Supervision Orders: Families with Intellectual Disabilities in Child Protection in the Netherlands.

Families with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities (MBID) are overrepresented in child protection, and are at higher risk for long and unsuccessful family supervision orders (FSOs). This is worrisome, as many children apparently are exposed to unsafe parenting situations for longer periods of time. Therefore, the present study examined which child and parental factors and child maltreatment are related to the duration and success of an FSO in families with MBID in the Netherlands.