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Using medication to manage behaviour problems among adults with a learning disability: quick reference guide
- Authors:
- DEB Shoumitro, CLARKE David, UNWIN Gemma
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This quick reference guide has been produced to provide advice to people who are considering prescribing medication to manage behaviour problems among adults (aged 18 years and over) with a learning disability. It does not consider in any detail the indications for choosing specific medication to manage behaviour problems among adults with a learning disability. Rather, it provides recommendations for clinical practice surrounding the use of medication to manage behaviour problems among adults with a learning disability. All relevant medication and related issues are considered. The guide is divided into the following sections: initiation of treatment (assessment, formulation, and treatment plan); monitoring of treatment; discontinuation of treatment; high-dose medication; poly-prescribing; intramuscular (IM) medication; rapid tranquilisation; as required (PRN) prescribing; communication and information sharing; interdisciplinary working; consent and capacity; and the referral pathway.
Having a say: helping people with learning disabilities participate in planning services
- Authors:
- EVANS John, (Producer), THOMAS Jeanette, (Author)
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Outlines the work of Learning Disability Wales (formerly SCOVO), the collective voice of the voluntary sector in Wales which promotes the right of children and adults with a learning disability to have valued lives.
Swansea People First Peer Health Advocacy project
- Authors:
- COLEMAN Lynn, OWENS Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 81, Autumn 2006, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The first author explains the work of the Swansea People First Peer Health Advocacy Project. The second author briefly recounts his own experience as a group member.
Walking back to unhappiness
- Author:
- ROPER Adrian
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 79, Spring 2006, pp.3-7.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The author, chair of the All Wales Community Living Network, asks whether social care commissioners will use their power to build harmony and effectiveness among provider agencies, or drag them back into cost-driven competition.
Implementing direct payments for people with a learning disability
- Author:
- SWIFT Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 9(4), December 2006, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article reports on research on the variable take-up of direct payments. Direct payments offer huge potential for people with learning disabilities, but implementation has been patchy. The results found that care managers are crucial to getting more people on to direct payments, but many feel ill-equipped to help people take advantage of direct payments, and also doubt their usefulness, either to their clients or to the development of services. Creative solutions, such as an active peer-support group and using circles of support or trusts, coupled with user-friendly systems backed up with training an managerial support, can result in greater take-up and more success stories. This article is reprinted from Learning Disability Today: Paul Swift (2007) Implementing direct payments for people with a learning disability. Learning Disability Today 7(1), pp.12-15.
Changing the face of challenging behaviour services: the Special Projects Team
- Authors:
- ALLEN David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(4), December 2006, pp.237-242.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The background to a unique initiative for people with challenging behaviour in Wales is described. The Special Projects Team (SPT) was established in the context of increasing knowledge of effective treatment responses, but lack of widespread expertise as well as growing crisis within challenging behaviour services. Unlike previous innovative approaches, the SPT is designed to focus on the development of new services and demonstration projects as well enhancing local knowledge through training and research, and encouraging collaborative developments by working with partners across agencies and across all sectors. The vision of the ideal multi-component, comprehensive, tiered system of support services is outlined, as are the project brief and principal objectives. Key activities in the initial years have encompassed resettlement, a major epidemiological and service mapping study, the development of the first of a series of accredited training courses, research reviews, and the establishment of formal links with other organizations, including the formation of the Unit for Development in Intellectual Disabilities. Aims for the next phases of the Team are highlighted.
The Friendly Trust: changes lives for the better
- Author:
- DERRINGTON Siobhan
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 82, Winter 2006, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
This article describes the work of The Friendly Trust, a Cardiff based charity that has provided financial advice and support to people with learning disabilities since 1998. The article contains a profile of one of their service users, and how the Trust had been able to help him.
Location, location, location
- Author:
- GILKES John
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 82, Winter 2006, pp.3-5.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The author gives a personal view on locality commissioning, after the decision by Cardiff Council to commission Supported Living services on a locality basis.
Service user involvement in service change and development in Assessment and Care Management
- Author:
- BANKS Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 82, Winter 2006, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The author reports on a year long study of service users experiences of the Individual Care Plan process. The study was commissioned by Learning Disability Services in Swansea and carried out by Mencap Cymru's Swansea Participation Service (SPS). It involved fifty-eight people across eight day and
Targeted support - an experiment in finding new ways to support people at home and in their community
- Author:
- WILSON Rick
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 82, Winter 2006, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The author talks about a new approach to support that Community Lives Consortium is trying, in partnership with Neath Port Talbot. Targeted support uses assistive technology and computers to help staff support be more effective.