Serving profoundly mentally retarded persons: staff attitudes and job satisfaction.
Direct-care and professional staff members who served profoundly and multiply disabled persons in 13 small community settings or in a large specialty hospital generally expressed positive attitudes regarding their jobs and resident care. Further, staff members who worked with the most disabled residents did not differ from employees serving profoundly but relatively less impaired persons. Hospital direct-care staff, however, seemed to endorse more "normalized" interpersonal relationships with residents, even though the hospital might be considered a "more restrictive" setting. It therefore appears that normalization of the physical and interpersonal environments may be somewhat independent in facilities serving profoundly disabled persons.
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009519:New York City; D010348:Patient Care Team