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Learning disabilities: positive practice guide
- Authors:
- DAGNAN Dave, et al
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 34
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice guide provides information on how to best support people with learning disabilities to access their local Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. It is aimed at those who work in, commission, or refer to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services. The guide outlines the reasonable adjustments that are recommended to ensure that people with learning disabilities get the maximum benefit from treatment within an IAPT service. Areas discussed include: service models, changes to referral and access pathways; screening; adjustments to mainstream IAPT pathways; assessment; adaptations to treatment and interventions; and making information accessible. Practical examples are included to show how some teams have made reasonable adjustments to support access to IAPT service. The guide also covers the importance of training and developing the workforce and provides key points for commissioners of IAPT services consider to ensure that mainstream services effectively meet the needs of people with learning disabilities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working together: developing and providing services for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems
- Author:
- UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. King's College. Centre for Mental Health Services Development
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Working Together Resource Pack provides materials to encourage and support joint working between mental health and learning disability services. The aim is to improve access to effective and appropriate support for people with learning disabilities and additional mental health problems. The pack will be useful to a broad range of staff in learning disability and mental health services, PCTs and Local Authorities, Local Implementation Teams and Valuing People Partnership Boards. It should be of interest to family carers, staff and people who use both mental health and learning disability services, to understand services systems, structures and processes.
Everyday lives, everyday choices for people with learning disabilities and high support needs
- Editor:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 127p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on the Choice Initiative to explore the way in which those with severe, profound and multiple learning disabilities who had high support needs, and in particular, little or no verbal communication, could be empowered to make choices. It is a series of innovative service development projects designed to support people in expressing their preferences and to bring about changes in their lives, either in daytime opportunities, leisure, housing or friendships. Communication in these circumstances is discussed. Chapters cover the choosing of: community activities, work, friends, and how you live. Choice through citizen advocacy, risk and choice, and appropriate staff development and training are addressed.