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Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This UK journal focuses on the the mental health needs of people with learning/intellectual disabilities. It includes research and supports professionals in delivering high-quality and evidence-based practice to people with learning/intellectual disabilities who have additional mental health needs. Articles include discussions of policy and its implications in practice, clinical case studies, research reports, developments in service design and delivery, and news and resources. Articles from this journal are indexed and abstracted selectively on Social Care Online.
Diagnostic manual - intellectual disability (DM-ID): a textbook of diagnosis of mental disorders in persons with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- FLETCHER Robert, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- NADD Press
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 552p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston, NY
This diagnostic manual was developed by the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed (NADD), in association with the American Psychiatric Association (APA). It aims to facilitate a more accurate psychiatric diagnosis of people with Intellectual Disabilities. Content includes a description of each psychiatric disorder, a summary of the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, a review of the research and an evaluation of the strength of evidence supporting the literature conclusions.
Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This UK journal specifically relates to the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities. It integrates current research with practice and keeps professionals up to date with a variety of different perspectives on developments in the field. It aims to support professionals in delivering high-quality and evidence-based practice to people with learning disabilities who have additional mental health needs, and provides a forum for debate of current issues and opinions. This journal is indexed and abstracted selectively on Social Care Online.
The Mental Health Clustering Tool for people with severe intellectual disability
- Authors:
- RADHAKRISHNAN Vishwa, SMITH Kevin, O'HARA Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatrist (The), 36(12), December 2012, pp.454-458.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Payment by results is being extended to mental health services in the UK. To support its implementation in secondary mental health services, the DofH has developed the Mental Health Clustering Tool (MHCT) to assign patients to groups based on need and anticipated service use, rather than diagnosis. The authors examined 92% (117/127) of the patients in their community mental health learning disability team using the MHCT to discover whether it could capture their needs sufficiently well for assignment to a payment by results care cluster. A large proportion, 48%, of the sample was assigned to the variance cluster, Cluster 0, which is used when the needs of patients do not match any of the current 21 care clusters but a service will be provided. Clinicians’ ability to assign patients to clusters was primarily related to the absence of pervasive development disorder. Severity of intellectual disability alone did not appear to be associated with Custer 0 but aggression and agitation was more common in this cluster. It is concluded that the MHCT in its current form does not adequately capture the needs of people with more severe intellectual disability. An integrated mental health and learning disability clustering tool is in development and the authors suggest that until it is available it will not be possible to implement payment by results in mental health within learning disability services.
Mental health promotion for people with learning disabilities: supporting people with learning disabilities to stay mentally well
- Authors:
- HARDY Steve, et al
- Publisher:
- OLM-Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 79p., handouts, leaflets, CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
A training pack designed to support health and social care staff in teaching people with learning disabilities about mental health and mental health problems. The pack was developed through work with the Tuesday Group, a mental health promotion group for people with learning disabilities. Pack sections include: emotions; mental health; staying well; mental health problems - depression and anxiety; what happens when someone has a mental health problem; helping people to get better; serious mental health problems; and my mental health plan. Each section includes a session overview, learning aims, materials needed and the session running time. Handouts, leaflets and OHPs are included.
Mental handicap: challenge to the church
- Editors:
- KELLY Brian, McGINLEY Patrick
- Publisher:
- Lisieux Hall Publications
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 294p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Chorley, Lancs.
The church has been both profoundly affected by and has contributed significantly to, the manner in which our society has sought to move from segregation to integration, and from marginalisation to inclusion in relation to people with disabilities. The position of people with mental problems in society and in the church and has always been a precarious one. Discrimination has been deep-rooted. This book describes the problems, and some of the pastoral services offered.
Tinkering as collective practice: a qualitative study on handling ethical tensions in supporting people with intellectual or psychiatric disabilities
- Authors:
- HEERINGS Marjolijn, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 16(1), 2022, pp.36-53.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The values of patient autonomy and community participation have become central in health care. However, care practices involve a plurality of possibly conflicting values. These values often transgress the borders of the individual professional-client relationship as they involve family members, other professionals and community organisations. Good care should acknowledge this relational complexity, which requires a collective handling of the tensions between values. To better understand this process, we draw on [Mol, A. 2008. The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice. Routledge; Mol, A., I. Moser, and J. Pols. 2010a. Care in Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms. Transcript Verlag.) by developing the notion of collective tinkering. An ethnographic study was conducted in two teams in community housing services for people with Intellectual Disabilities and Severe Mental Illness. Collective tinkering is analysed (1) within teams; (2) between professionals, family members and professionals from different organisations providing care for the same client; and (3) in organising practices for a collective of clients. Collective tinkering involves assembling goods into a care practice, attentively experimenting with these care practices, and adjusting care accordingly within a collective of those involved in care for a particular client (group). When collective tinkering does not occur, the stakeholders excluded (e.g. clients or family members) may experience poor quality of care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Supported decision making: experiences, approaches and preferences
- Authors:
- DAVIDSON Gavin, et al
- Publishers:
- Praxis Care, Mencap, Queens University Belfast
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 72
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This report presents the findings from research which explores how people are supported to make their own decisions. The report includes the results of a review of literature on supported decision making, including different approaches; a review of key guidance; and findings from interviews with 41 people with mental health problems and/ or intellectual disabilities carried out by peer researchers. The interviews provided an in-depth understanding of people’s experiences of support for decision making and their ideas on how decision making should be supported in the future. The research was funded by the Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning (DRILL) programme and was led by Praxis Care in partnership with Mencap NI and Queen’s University Belfast. The findings identified three things that participants felt make decision making harder: the type of decision; the role of other people; and what the outcome might be. Time was also identified as an important factor. In terms of support, people said they would like: practical support including more accessible information; emotional support including someone to talk to; and sometimes the options to choose from. The report makes a number of recommendations for how support for decision making should be provided but also specifically for how these findings might help to inform how the new support principle in the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 should be implemented in practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
“Staying Well”: a psychoeducational group for people with an intellectual disability, co-morbid mental illness and offending behaviour
- Authors:
- DOUDS Fergus, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 5(1), 2014, pp.54-59.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: UK best practice guidelines for the treatment for people with schizophrenia recommend the use of psychoeducational approaches. The purpose of this paper is to describe the introduction of psychoeducational groups for people with an intellectual disability and co-morbid mental illness within forensic settings. Design/methodology/approach: “Staying Well”, a psychoeducational programme for people with an intellectual disability and co-morbid mental illness was based in part on a group programme from Ashworth Hospital, but adapted and developed to be suitable for people with intellectual disability. Input from a very experienced speech and language therapist was of great importance. Five groups with a total of 20 participants (15 different individuals) with mild to moderate intellectual disability and co-morbid mental illness were run over a two-year period. At the end of each group, an individualised “Staying Well Plan” was devised, to reduce the risk of future relapses. Findings: The group was very positively welcomed in the two pilot hospitals, by participants and members of the clinical teams. The key measure of the success of the programme is that the “Staying Well Plans” developed for the individuals are still in place two years after the completion of the first groups. Practical implications: The authors believe that this approach is of benefit to both the participants and their carers, stimulating positive engagement, open discussion about mental illness and reinforcing strategies for “Staying Well”. Originality/value: This paper shows how a psychoeducational approach to severe mental illness in individuals with an intellectual disability is both possible and well received. (Publisher abstract)
Children and young people with learning disabilities: understanding their mental health
- Author:
- BOND (Better Outcomes New Delivery)
- Publisher:
- BOND (Better Outcomes New Delivery)
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
This information pack provides a general introduction to mental health and mental wellbeing in children, before looking at mental health problems in children and young people with learning disabilities in more detail. Areas covered include identifying mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour and serious mental health problems; how to record concerns; who to talk to; and what to do in a crisis. A list of useful resources that can be used to help children are also included. (Original abstract)