An anger management programme for adults with learning disabilities

Speech and language therapy aims to increase the functional communication of adults with learning disabilities through the implementation of interaction group programmes but the full therapeutic benefit may be reduced because of individual clients' presenting challenging behaviours. The pilot Anger Management Programme aimed to reduce clients' challenging behaviour through increased communication use and with a focus on multidisciplinary collaborative NHS health trust and social work team working practices. An in-service training package and two client-group programmes were devised and positively received both from a client provision and multidisciplinary skill-merge perspective. The paper details the introduction to the study, its objectives, methodology and qualitative analysis.