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New legislative proposals for women with learning disabilities and mental health problems
- Authors:
- McNAMARA Eileen, HALL Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.36-40.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Several proposed changes to the law in England and Wales will particularly affect women with learning disabilities. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the draft Mental Health and Mental Incapacity Bills all highlight the tension between state paternalism and individual autonomy. Uses a fictional case scenario to consider the practical implications of the proposed legislation, and dilemmas that may arise.
The quality of life of HIV-infected women is associated with psychiatric morbidity
- Authors:
- TOSTES M.A., CHALUB M., BOTEGA N.J.
- Journal article citation:
- AIDS Care, 16(2), February 2004, pp.177-186.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Evaluates the effect of clinical, demographic and psychiatric factors on the health-related quality of life of 76 women with HIV infection seen in two HIV reference centres in Brazil. The generic questionnaire for evaluation of Health-Related Quality of Life (SF-36), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) and the Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS-R) were used. The statistical tests included the covariance analysis. The sub-group of the non-AIDS symptoms (clinical stage B) showed the worst quality of life. The variables which better explained the scoring variation on both the mental and physical components of the SF-36 were related to mental health. The more mental symptoms present, the worse the health-related quality of life. Concludes that care strategies should be rethought in the area of mental health which are directed toward HIV+ patients, by virtue of the levels of mental health symptoms found and the request for care which the research revealed.
Human rights and the failure of policy to deliver: women with learning disabilities and mental health needs
- Author:
- LAWSON Annette
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.4-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Human rights figure largely in both rhetoric and practice, and Government policy seeks to value and enhance individual equality and quality of life. Draws on recent work to illustrate gaps in the achievement of these ideals. The proposed new single body, a Commission on Equality and Human Rights, may offer an improved framework for implementation of policy goals and more fulfilled lives.
Limiting the damage
- Author:
- MILLER Joe
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2004, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
States that men too have gender-related mental health issues to which workers need to be sensitive and aware. The past two decades have seen growing awareness of the role of gender in mental health, and 'gender-blindness' has not served women well. Perceptions of masculinity are a problem. Presents a fact file on suicide, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol and substance abuse, serious mental health problems, victims of violence, crime, high-risk behaviour and AIDS and safe sex. Implications for training are outlined.
Responding to physical and sexual abuse in women with alcohol and other drug and mental disorders
- Editors:
- VEYSEY Bonita M., CLARK Colleen, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 207p.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
This book explores the efforts of the Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Study to address the significant lack of appropriate services for women trauma survivors with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Experts describe the services integration programmeof nine participating sites that address the multiple needs of these women. In this guide, you will find useful strategies for integrating services that are responsive to the strengths and needs of the individual as well as the community. This resource examines how each site designed, implemented, and evaluated their interventions. It explains how each site developed their strategies for integrating services at both the clinical/individual level and at the services or systems level. The book also shows how trauma-informed, gender-specific, culturally competent care fosters treatment that is sensitive to related issues such as children and parenting, interpreting culture cues, and socioeconomic difficulties.
Protecting the public from sexual crime: an explanation of the Sexual Offences Act 2003
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Criminal Justice System
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Home Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Sexual Offences Act will came into force in May 2004.The Act is designed to protect everyone in society from sexual crimes – especially people who are particularly vulnerable to abuse, such as children and people with a mental disorder. The Act introduces new measures that will help the public have confidence in the Criminal Justice System and enable us to put victims first. Part 1 of the Act modernises nineteenth century offences and plugs loopholes in the law. Part 2 deals with sex offenders. It strengthens the sex offenders register and introduces new civil orders to help prevent further offences from being committed.
Psychological distress patterns of women and mothers presenting for HIV-related mental health care
- Authors:
- REECE Michael, BASTA Tania B., KOERS Erin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services, 3(2), 2004, pp.93-109.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Over a seven year period, data were collected from 228 women living with HIV upon their self-enrollment into mental health care at an HIV-related mental health clinic in the USA. Analyses were conducted to explore the symptoms of mental health distress being presented by women upon their enrollment into care and, in particular, associations between these symptoms and characteristics of motherhood. Findings suggest that women living with HIV present for care with significant levels of psychological distress symptoms and that factors related to parenthood are associated with diverse clinical presentations. As an increasingly prevalent component of the HIV social services system, women living with HIV are in need of access to services that are responsive to their unique mental health issues and that are based upon an understanding of the extent to which familial variables influence psychological distress. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Mental health needs of women with learning disabilities: services can be organised to meet the challenge
- Author:
- KOHEN Dora
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.12-19.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Women with learning disabilities have many social, personal and psychological problems stemming from neglect, as well as being doubly disadvantaged by gender and learning disability. Most such psychosocial problems are not addressed as they arise, leading to psychiatric diagnosis and medicalisation of non-medical issues. It is important to recognise parenting in women with learning disabilities, as well as concerns such as sexual and emotional abuse and violence, and address them by appropriate agencies. Research suggests trained mental health staff with good understanding of gender as well as of disabilities would be able to address needs before they turn into crises. International and national surveys give good understanding of where needs lie and how services could be structured most effectively. Recognition of problems, a robust gender-sensitive approach and management skills at community level seem most important in dealing with women with learning disabilities. Most need local, generic, gender-sensitive non-stigmatising services. Only a very small minority of women with behavioural problems will need the highly specialised psychiatric learning disabilities team.
Understanding our bodies, understanding ourselves: the menstrual cycle, mental health and women with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- DITCHFIELD Hedy, BURNS Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.24-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reviews the evidence for vulnerability in women with learning disabilities to a range of physical and mental health problems, with special emphasis on menstruation. Describes a qualitative research project on the experience of learning-disabled women in relation to menstruation, concluding by emphasising the need for services to communicate information on this subject in more sensitive and appropriate ways.
Women with learning disabilities and menstruation
- Author:
- RODGERS Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.33-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the importance of menstruation, the unhappy experiences with it of many women with learning disabilities, arguments that it should be suppressed, menstruation and womanhood, and what can be done and is being done to improve things. Concludes more profound change can only occur through the empowerment of women with learning disabilities through self-advocacy, disability rights and women's movements.