The case study chosen includes a service user who has experienced cut-off and negligence from his relatives, friends and family especially during his childhood period. He has ever since longed to have contact or an attachment with a family securely. His condition has brought about anxiety which has made him unsettled. If the student is placed in an adult learning disability team whose role is to support adults with learning disabilities, the service users become screened or pre-assessed with fairness when it comes to caring. Such a process is useful in assisting individuals to meet their needs (Jenkins & Davies, 2011). It also ensures that those adults who are at low or moderate risk, are given advice and useful information are provided to them to assist in meeting their needs. Statistics show that nearly 1.5 million people in the United Kingdom have learning disabilities. Over 905,000 being adults aged 18 years and above.
There are several relevant legislation that protects the rights of adults with learning disabilities. Some of them are; the Human Rights Act 1998, the National Assistance Act 1948, the Data Protection Act 1998, the Mental Health Act 1983 and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 19990. There are also policies relevant to the protection of the adult with learning disabilities’ rights. Some of them include; Fair Access to Case – this needs the local delegates to eligibly classify this criterion into four categories of needs; low, moderate, substantial and critical (Brugha, Cooper, McManus, Purdon, Smith, Scott & Tyrer, 2012). All of these criteria are based on how serious the independence’s risk is if there is no address to issues.

For the protection of the individual’s privacy, his personal details have been anonymized. This is done in line with the provisions discussed on the Data Protection Policy and the Data Protection Act 1998. Section 6(2) of this act states that “local authorities have a general duty in common law to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information which they hold in connection with their social services functions.” This responsibility is managed and monitored by the Data Protection Policy and Team managers respectively (Jenkins & Davies, 2011).

Mr. B is the service user who was interviewed. He is a 40-year-old male individual with a borderline personality disorder and learning disability. He was born and brought up in Florida. By his birth’s virtue and the fact that the social care services got access of him first, under the National Assistant Act 1948, he became an ordinary resident in Florida State. Section 24(1) of this act gives mandate and empowerment to the local authorities to give residential accommodation for the individuals who are vulnerable. Mr. B provided information that his parents had a divorce when he was 5 years old. Since then, he got little contact with both of his parents. Of his three siblings, he is the eldest. Following allegations made by her sister against him for sexual abuse, he has had no contact with his only sister. Contacting his brother has been limited to occasional phone calls and cards (Jenkins & Davies, 2011).

Mr. B was diagnosed when he was 3 years old. Before his diagnosis, he experienced difficulty in reading and writing, clumsiness, poor memory, issues with concentration, difficulty in following instructions and being unorganized. His childhood was identified by hardship and trouble. As a result of that, he found it hard to form his own attachments because of the constant changes made in his living arrangements (Jenkins & Davies, 2011). While he was still living under the social care services, he made expressions of longing to move back to his hometown, back in 1999. He became a tenant with a housing association locally and was even given support intensively by the team. This arrangement broke down suddenly after Mr. B’s constant cravings for attention. He even got himself into self-injurious behaviors such as the tendency to set properties on fire and even harming himself.

However, the tendency of harming oneself is a common behavior among individuals with learning disabilities. A research was done in Wales and gave results that about 9% of children above age 5 and adults who use learning disability services were considered to injure themselves. A report was also made that individuals with several life problems are more likely to harm themselves (Jenkins & Davies, 2011). Important of all these being individuals with relationship problems involving either a family member or a partner. Other reported issues include those with financial, studies and unemployment problems. This literally explains Mr. B’s tendency to harm himself. In 1999, there were a series of threats received that Mr. B wanted to end his life. That was when he was detained in a local hospital according to the Mental Health Act 1983 under section 3. This was done for purposes of allowing Mr. B to receive his treatment intensively in an environment that is protected. Without the intervention of immediate treatment, Mr. B would have been endangered by harming himself and others as well by his tendency of setting items on fire.

The Mental Health Act 1983 is the law that allows a disturbed individual...…provided by the team members include; coordinating for the safeguard of the vulnerable adults, giving advice on supported employment, health services and residential care and providing nursing services. The team’s presence provides promotion of practices that are anti-discriminatory and improvement of services. Mr. B was diagnosed with mild learning disability and personality disorder (Brugha, Cooper, McManus, Purdon, Smith, Scott & Tyrer, 2012). Having gone through the screening process, a care plan was developed for him. The regular review of his care plan ensures relevance when it comes to meeting his aspirations and needs. Recently, there are no cases received of him having violent behaviors or any serious issue. Therefore, there are no current plans to detaining him unless if his condition is seriously deteriorating.

There are several similarities and differences when it comes to analyzing the findings of the research from a peer-reviewed journal. It includes a comparison of the characteristics of Mr. B who was interviewed and the typical individual who had a similar diagnosis.

Academic Experience - The academic experience of the individual who had a similar diagnosis as that of Mr. B was traced to have lower than the expected academic achievement of his peers. Mr. B’s academic experience is similar to that of the individual. Employment - The studied individual obtained a job of low wage while with little benefits. Mr. B on the other hand never secured a job for himself (Brugha, Cooper, McManus, Purdon, Smith, Scott & Tyrer, 2012). Therefore, the individual was noted to have improved over time faster as compared to how Mr. B had. Social-Emotional and Stress Problems – both the studied individual and Mr. B gave people they lived with a lot of stress. These stress came out as a result of several inconveniences and frustrations.

Personal Support. Findings from the research of the individual showed that receiving support from a partner is important when it comes to adult adjustments. Both Mr. B and the individual received support from both family and social services. However, in Mr. B’s case, he had to be sent away due to allegations of sexual harassment and being violent. The support they received helped them gain their confidence. Causes of Reading Disabilities. Studies show that the individual’s learning disability was caused by low birth weight. He was born weighing 1kilogram. In the case of Mr. B, his mother was a drug addict. He abused drugs and used alcohol during his pregnancy period. This affected Mr. B’s development process. After his birth, his parents had issues and had to divorce and give him away to social…