...Lucy Barnard-Brak; Kagendo Mutua; Joy Burnham Purpose This paper aims to examine for differences in potentially productive fear versus all other fear scores comparing adolescents and young adults with intellectual disabilities versus their typically developing peers without intellectual...

... 05 2018 02 08 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Mental health Adolescents Services Intellectual disabilities Norway Adults Norway has an area of about 385,000 square kilometres and about 5.3m inhabitants...

... adolescents with 22q11.2DS experience, adaptions may be needed to teach these adolescents cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. The purpose of this paper is to assess psychosocial functioning in adolescents with 22q11.2DS and to adapt CBT with this group. Design/methodology/approach – Totally...

...Sarah H. Bernard; Ernest Gralton Purpose This is an invited short overview from a clinician working in a national secure inpatient setting which aims to focus on inpatient forensic services for adolescents with developmental disabilities. Design/methodology/approach The paper gives a brief...

...Rebecca Chilvers; Suzannah Gratton; Sarah H. Bernard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a tier four mental health of child and adolescent intellectual disability service was meeting the complex needs of children and families by evaluating performance on key characteristics...

... and adolescent, and adult populations. There is also evidence that a range of therapeutic interventions are effective and that a spectrum of problems can be addressed via psychotherapy. Research limitations/implications This area has received relatively little attention in the research literature...