title: Jeopardy in community placement.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012112:Residential Facilities; D012419:Runaway Behavior; D012652:Self Mutilation; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*