TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1975//
TI  - Jeopardy in community placement
JO  - American journal of mental deficiency
A1  - Nihira, L.
A1  - Nihira, K.
SP  - 538
EP  - 544
VL  - 79
IS  - 5
N2  - As part of a broader research effort, a survey of the adaptive behavior of 424 community-placed retarded persons was conducted through small group, tape-recorded interviews with their 109 caretakers. From 1252 incidents of problem behavior cited, 203 were judged to contain jeopardy. Seventy-seven percent of these incidents involved jeopardy to health and/or safety, 4 percent to general welfare, and 18 percent contained legal jeopardy. In 79 percent of incidents, the client jeopardized himself, in 12 percent he jeopardized a fellow client, and in 9 percent he jeopardized a member of the community at large. The evidence exposes need for full examination of this problem and ways to minimize it.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-9351
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -