... 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Intellectual disability Mental health services Side effects Psychotropic medication Mental disorders UK SERS - ID When the present study was planned (Tveter et al., 2014...

...) 5 diagnostic criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Adults (aged 21+). Had been receiving specialist inpatient mental health services for assessment or treatment for a minimum of three months. Demonstrated capacity to consent. Ability to participate in semi-structured one...

... division of labour, financial insecurity and unremitting childcare responsibilities (e.g. Avotri and Walters, 1999). Lack of research relevant to causation of mental illness and effectiveness of clinical interventions and staff training means that gender‐specific mental health service provision is as yet...

... are less likely to access appropriate mental health services than those without intellectual disabilities, and that even when a service has been identified often there are shortcomings in its operation that result in treatment and identification of problems being sub‐optimal (Royal College of Psychiatrists...

.... Originality/value The study adds to the limited research on staff knowledge about older people with intellectual disabilities and dementia, using a novel methodology. Intellectual disabilities Learning disability Mental health services Mental illness Dementia Support workers Training...

... 2012 Intellectual disabilities Psychiatric disorder Mental illness Challenging behaviour Mental health services Behavioural problems are common among people with intellectual disability and various labels have been used to describe them including “maladaptive behaviour” (Dawson...

...Emily Handley; Olivia Southwell; Julie Steel Purpose Given the increased prevalence of mental health problems amongst people with intellectual disabilities, it seems pertinent to consider how the recovery approach could potentially benefit practice within mental health services for people...

... Screening Diagnosis Assessment Teams Health services Mental health services Diagnostic testing The term autism spectrum disorders (ASD) will here mean childhood autism, Asperger syndrome and atypical autism or pervasive developmental disorder‐not otherwise specified (PDD‐NOS). It has moved over...

... daily lives. Originality/value This paper offers an update of current practice and policy relating to mental health for people with intellectual disabilities in England and Northern Ireland. In England mental health services are provided by NHS mental health trusts and a growing number...

..., community mental health services now involved … ”oh, but,” I tell them, “you need to also understand the longstanding developmental difficulties, he is dysphasic and so needs … this/that/the other”. In their friendly, well‐intentioned way they say, “Dyspraxia, what's that?!!!” Each service takes...

.... Elizabeth Beber can be contacted at: EBeber@standrew.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Intellectual disability Women Secure services Offending Learning disability Mental health services United Kingdom There are differences in the family and social context of women's...

... with such issues when they arise in practice. Paul Willner can be contacted at: p.willner@swansea.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Mental capacity Intellectual disabilities Learning disabilities Staff Residential services Self‐confidence Mental health services The Mental...

...). Participants who submitted supporter information were more likely to be insecurely attached, having either I‐AV or I‐AX attachment. Felicity V. Larson can be contacted at: fvl20@medschl.cam.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Intellectual disabilities Mental illness Mental health...