Ensuring Best Outcomes for Children with Behavioral Needs and Adults with Medical Fragility in a Congregate Care Setting Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

• By: Rita M. Gardner, MPH, LABA, BCBA Helena Maguire, MS, LABA, BCBA Shawn P. Quigley, PhD, BCBA-D Mary Jane Weiss, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA Melmark
• May 19th, 2020
• adults, children, client health, COVID-19, PPE, residential setting, staff, summer 2020 issue, training
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COVID-19 abruptly thrust new challenges onto organizations providing intensive behavioral services in a congregate care setting to individuals diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The novel virus and its many unknowns required organizations to respond to a rapidly evolving...

Integrated Psychiatry for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

• By: Shawn P. Quigley, PhD, BCBA-D Danielle Block MBA, BSN, RN Frank L. Bird MEd, BCBA, LABA Melmark
• October 1st, 2019
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Use of psychotropic drugs for individuals with developmental disabilities is common practice. For example, Jobski, Hofer, Hoffman, and Bachmann (2016) documented an overall median use of psychotropic drugs in 45.7% of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Wink et al., (2018) documented...

Addressing the Human Services Workforce Crisis Through Training and Professional Development

• By: Shawn P. Quigley, PhD, BCBA-D Jennifer Ruane, MS, BCBA, LPC Lindsey Dunn, MA, SPHR, CPHRM Melmark PA
• July 1st, 2019
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In 2017, the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities provided a report (retrieved from https://www.nadsp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PCPID-2017_-Americas-Direct-Support-Workforce-Crisis-low-res.pdf) to the President of the United States regarding the workforce crisis...