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The psychiatry of intellectual disability
- Editors:
- ROY Ashok, ROY Meerna, CLARKE David, (eds)
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 196p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
This book describes common clinical conditions, and offers practical treatment approaches. It clarifies a complex area of need by examining both intellectual disabilities, and associated social and economic disadvantages. It also gives an overview of the scope and role of the psychiatrist in the field with a focus on team-work and integrated service provision. Extensive use of tables and figures is made to illustrate points. Professionals working with the intellectually disabled in health and social care will find this book invaluable, as will practicing psychiatrists and psychiatrists in training.
The autism matrix: the social origins of the autism epidemic
- Authors:
- EYAL Gil, et al
- Publisher:
- Polity
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 240p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Using a combination of historical narrative and international comparison, the authors offer a new interpretation of autism from a sociological perspective. They argue that the recent rise in autism should be understood in the context of the deinstitutionalization of learning disabilities in the mid-1970s. This resulted in a change in the way institutions had to deal with childhood developmental disorders, but also of the cultural lens through which we view them. The authors show that where deinstitutionalization went the furthest, as in Scandinavia, UK and parts of the USA, autism rates are highest. Where it was absent or delayed, as in France, autism rates are low.
People with learning disabilities in a low secure in-patient unit: comparison of offenders and non-offenders
- Authors:
- REED Suzie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 185(12), December 2004, pp.499-504.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
People with learning disability who exhibit challenging behaviour are frequently segregated from services and local teams are often reluctant to receive them back into their care. This situation is worse in those whose challenging behaviour includes a forensic history, but the difference between those labelled as challenging and those treated as offenders is not clear, and there is a lack of evidence about treatment effectiveness. The aim was to test between-group differences in aggression and treatment outcome in people with learning disability and challenging behaviour, with and without a forensic history. Clinical records of 86 former in-patients (45 offenders and 41 non-offenders) of a specialist unit were compared on measures of behavioural disturbance and placement outcome. People in the offenders group were significantly less likely to be aggressive to others and to use weapons, but significantly more likely to harm themselves compared with the non-offenders group. Both groups had a significant reduction in their challenging behaviour during admission, and there was no significant difference in treatment outcome. The negative reputation of people with learning disabilities who offend needs to be reconsidered.
A psychotherapy service for children, adolescents and adults with learning disabilities at the Tavistock Clinic London UK
- Authors:
- HERNADEZ-HALTON Isabel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 28(3), September 2000, pp.120-124.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In 1995, a new team was specifically created at the Tavistock Clinic, London, UK, to work with people with people with learning disability of all ages using psychodynamic ideas, principles and methods. This was a new organization, born out of the growing interest and work in this field, work that had been going on at the Tavistock Clinic for many years. The present paper describes the work of the organization, and provides two case examples to illustrate the team's way of working.
The dissemination of innovative cognitive-behavioural psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia
- Authors:
- TARRIER Nicholas, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(6), December 1999, pp.569-582.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
There has been considerable research in recent years that has suggested that non-drug psychosocial interventions have considerable benefits to patients suffering from psychoses. These interventions include family interventions, individual cognitive-behaviour therapy and early signs monitoring. In spite of these research findings the dissemination of these interventions into routine practice has been slow and patchy. This article briefly reviews these research studies and investigates reasons why dissemination of such evidence-based practice has not progressed.
Prevalence and correlates of behavioral and psychiatric symptoms in community-dwelling elders with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: the Memory and Medical Care Study
- Authors:
- CHAN Ding-Cheng, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(2), February 2003, pp.174-182.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Little is known about the prevalence and correlates of behavioral and psychiatric symptoms of dementia in community-dwelling elders with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Compared to dementia subjects, those classified as MCI had a lower prevalence of any symptoms (psychosis, depression, or agitation), and of agitation. Symptoms of psychosis and depression also were less prevalent, even though differences did not reach statistical significance. In the dementia group symptoms were associated with a report of a physician's diagnosis of dementia, greater functional impairment, and a knowledgeable informants (KI) who was a child/child-in-law. In those with MCI, symptoms were correlated with being white, greater functional impairment, and a younger, less educated, KI. Psychiatric and behavioral symptoms were common in community-residing elders with cognitive impairment, but their prevalence and correlates differed by study classification as having dementia or MCI. Identifying and treating these symptoms may benefit patients with cognitive impairment and their families.
Psychiatric drugs explained
- Author:
- HEALY David
- Publisher:
- Churchill Livingstone
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 343p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
- Edition:
- 3rd
Provides a guide to the uses, benefits and impact of psychotropic drugs, addressing the key concerns for health professionals around compliance, partnerships in treatment options and issues of accountability in practice. The book also contains a section on the pharmacological industry, critically appraising its significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. The major drug categories are listed and the clinical uses, modes of action and side effects of drugs in each category are described. Contents include: management of psychoses; management of affective disorders; use of psychos; management of sleep disorders and insomnia; management of cognitive impairment; management of sexual difficulties; management of dependence and withdrawal; consent, abuse and liability; the marketing of tranquility.
Mental health and people with severe learning disabilities: challenging the biopsychiatric model
- Authors:
- HARE Douglas, MALONE Caroline, FLOOD Andrea
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(4), December 1999, pp.126-128.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Accurate diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in a person with learning disabilities is a complex task fraught with clinical and ethical issues. This report argues that what orthodox classification systems would identify as a symptom of severe mental illness may arise from physical distress, neurological effect or a number of other factors. Better collaboration between psychologists and psychiatrists in assessment and treatment is needed to avoid misdiagnosis and consequent mistreatment of vulnerable people.
Mental health and deafness
- Editors:
- HINDLEY Peter, KITSON Nick
- Publisher:
- Whurr
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 582p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Designed as an introductory text on mental health and deafness for care workers and mental health workers. Covers a wide range of mental health issues as they relate to deafness and is divided into two sections. The first, Assessment, includes topics such as child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, children who are deaf and have multiple disabilities, deafness and learning disability, addictive behaviour and deafness, forensic psychiatry, acquired deafness, and abuse of deaf children. The second section, Management and Intervention, discusses interpreters in mental health settings, educational interventions, different forms of psychotherapy, family therapy, rehabilitation, and drug treatments.
Social work, psychiatry and the law
- Authors:
- PRINGLE N.N., THOMPSON P.J
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 210p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Explores the approved social worker's role in contemporary mental health practice. Combines a description of various aspects of multi disciplinary working, with accounts of clinical signs and syndromes, set against the possibilities and challenges inherent in the ASW's duties. Includes chapters on: law, policy and practice; psychiatry, diagnosis and treatment; severe mental health problems; disturbances in children and young people; people with learning difficulties; culture and diversity; substance misuse; dangerousness, suicide and homicide; ethical issues; and developing a psychotherapeutic approach to approved social work.