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A pilot memory cafe for people with learning disabilities and memory difficulties
- Authors:
- KIDDLE Hannah, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 44(3), 2016, p.175–181.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Memory cafes have been found to normalise experiences of dementia and provide access to an accepting social network. People with learning disabilities are at increased risk of developing dementia, but the possible benefits of attending a memory cafe are not known. This study evaluates a 12-week pilot memory cafe for people with learning disabilities in terms of adaptations required and benefits of attending. Results indicate that affect levels significantly improved across the course of the cafe and that communication, interaction, alertness and participation in other activities improved outside the cafe. Future plans for attendance at memory cafes for people with learning disabilities are discussed. (Publisher abstract)
Vulnerability to depression in adolescents with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- KIDDLE Hannah, DAGNAN Dave
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 5(1), January 2011, pp.3-8.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper provides a selective review of developmental risk factors relating to depression in typically developing adolescents and considers how the life experiences and the social context of adolescents with intellectual disability may increase their sensitivity to identified risk factors for depression. A number of factors are highlighted as important in the development of mental health problems including attachment, child temperament and parenting behaviour, and a number of risk factors specific to depression, including genetic vulnerability, parental depression, negative life events and peer relations. Many of these experiences are particularly prevalent in the lives of young people with intellectual disabilities. These include experience of the social stigma attached to intellectual disability, increased exposure to negative life-events, social and emotion recognition deficits, and increased rates of parental stress and associated depression. These life experiences and consequent increased susceptibility to risk factors may help explain the higher rate of depression in adolescents with intellectual disability. The authors suggest that a consideration of developmental factors and their interaction with the person’s social environment may offer a possible framework for prevention and early intervention with adolescents with intellectual disabilities.