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Care staff awareness training on mental health needs of adults with learning disabilities: results from a Greek sample
- Authors:
- TSIANTIS J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 8(3), September 2004, pp.221-235.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The mental health needs of adults with learning disabilities have not been adequately addressed in many European countries. Although carers can play a significant role in identification and referral, they usually lack the expertise necessary to identify signs of mental disorders. This study evaluated a care staff training programme aiming at improving awareness on issues of dual diagnosis in a group of 36 care staff from residential and community centres in Greece. Training was based on the British Mental Health in Learning Disabilities Training Pack and the PAS–ADD Checklist. The overwhelming majority of staff were very satisfied with training. Staff from institutional work settings, with no previous training on dual diagnosis and with a lower level of education, benefited to a significant degree. Changes occurred mostly in their knowledge and attitudes rather than practice. Supervised practical training is vital to transfer, strengthen and maintain positive changes at work.
Ameliorating mental disability: questioning retardation
- Authors:
- BAUMEISTER Alfred A., (ed.)
- Publisher:
- AldineTransaction
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 417p.
- Place of publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ
A text book in which mental retardation is viewed as a behavioural problem that can be treated. The aim is to help students and practitioners to apply research findings and theory to their work. Chapters, by experts in the fields of medicine, special education, speech and hearing, and psychology, cover a wide range of topics. They include: definition, diagnosis and classification of mental retardation; the multidisciplinary approach; perceptual, conceptual and psycholinguistic evaluation; personality evaluation, the role of environmental factors in the treatment of institutionalised mentally challenged people; psychotherapy; learning abilities; programmed instruction; vocational preparation; mainstream school programmes; training care workers; and counselling parents.
The national service framework for mental health: an executive briefing
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Critically examines seven standards proposed by the National Service Framework for Mental Health covering, mental health promotion, primary care and access to services, effective services for severe mental illnesses, caring for carers, and preventing suicide.
Working with young people who sexually abuse: new pieces of the jigsaw puzzle
- Author:
- CALDER Martin C.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 319p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
Collection of papers aiming to consolidate and extent the current knowledge and practice base in relation to young people who sexually abuse. Papers include: filling the theoretical reservoir of causal explanations; detection, diagnosis and treatment of paraphilic personality disorder; clinical assessment instruments that measure strengths and risks in children and families; recovery assessments with young people who sexually abuse; attachment and intimacy in young people who sexually abuse; a framework for a multiagency approach to working with young abusers; a conceptual framework for managing young people who sexually abuse; a psychoanalytical view of the relationship between fathers and their sons; a description of a community based project to work with young people who sexually abuse; developing groupwork with young people who sexually abuse; young abusers with learning difficulties; young people with Asperger's syndrome; the significance of trauma in problematic behaviour; dilemmas and potential work with sexually abusive young people in residential settings; and characteristics and treatment of adolescent sex offenders in the republic of Ireland.
National service framework for mental health: modern standards and service models for mental health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular accompanying national service framework setting out standards for mental health service provision by health and social services.