Main focus
- Prevention of violence in disability care (prevention, de-escalation, emergency response, aftercare)
- Challenging behaviours (such as self-harming and harmful behaviour towards others, property damage etc.)
- Quality of life of people with an intellectual disability (ID)
- SEED: Emotional development in people with ID
- Trauma, trauma-related disorders
- Violence, victim support
Further training
- 2023: SEED certificate: Multiplier of the SEED-approach in educational support of people with intellectual disabilities (Sabine Zepperitz, Berlin)
- 2022: Practical consultant for positive behavioural support (PBS) (Prof. Dr. Georg Theunissen, ifbfb, Berlin)
- 2018: DAS Association/NPO Management (University of Fribourg, VMI)
- 2016: Multiplier Ki-Pro (crisis intervention programme according to Prof. Dr. Ernst Wüllenweber, ifbfb, Berlin)
- 2015: Certificate as a special consultant for crisis intervention, de-escalation and dealing with behavioural problems (Prof. Dr. Ernst Wüllenweber, ifbfb, Berlin)
Services
- SEED assessments (assessment of the emotional development status of people with intellectual development disorders)
- Individual and situation analyses for adult persons who show challenging behaviour
- Specialist advice on dealing professionally with challenging behaviour (HEVE)
Further information
Memberships
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Soziale Arbeit (SGSA)
- AvenirSocial Berufsverband Soziale Arbeit Schweiz
- European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability (EAMHID)
- Swiss Society for Health in Intellectual Disability (SSHID)