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Dementia and people with intellectual disabilities: guidance on the assessment, diagnosis, interventions and support of people with intellectual disabilities who develop dementia
- Authors:
- BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 146
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Guidance for professionals working in clinical and social care services to help improve the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities who develop dementia, focusing on assessment, diagnosis, interventions and support. The guidance is aimed at clinicians in intellectual disabilities and older peoples’ mental health services and services for younger people with dementia. reasons for apparent decline in functioning; clinical presentation of dementia; assessment; establishing the diagnosis and breaking the news; additional health co-morbidities associated with dementia; conceptual understanding of the dementia process; philosophy of care; environments; meeting changing needs/interventions; medication; safe eating and drinking; palliative care and end of life issues; (Edited publisher abstract)
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD): guidelines and principles for successful multi-agency working
- Author:
- BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Defines ADHD and outlines ways in which professionals from health, education, social work and other fields can collaborate in assessment and intervention.
Recent advances in understanding mental illness and psychotic experiences: a report by The British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology
- Author:
- BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 82p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
The report is divided into three parts, covering understanding of mental illness, causes, and help and treatment. The scope includes diagnoses of schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, psychosis, manic depression and bipolar affective disorder. Incidence, prognosis, the continuum with mental health, biological, life circumstance and psychological causes, medication, intervention, risks and consequent social exclusion are all covered.