... quotation from the participants. The major emergent themes are summarised as follows. Colin Hemmings can be contacted at: Colin.Hemmings@slam.nhs.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Services Community Intellectual disabilities Mental health United Kingdom There has been...

... Perera can be contacted at: Bathika@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Community treatment order Supervised community treatment Intellectual disability Learning disabilities Autism Pervasive developmental disorder United Kingdom Supervised community treatment...

... shifted to secure social and residential educational providers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Adolescents Developmental disabilities Intellectual disabilities Offending Inpatient Forensic Learning disabilities Young adults United Kingdom Individual behaviour...

... Capacity Act Young adults Learning disabilities Children (age groups) United Kingdom Intellectual disabilities The legal framework governing the admission of children and young people into hospital is complex. Those who are responsible for the care and treatment of those under the age of 18...

... at: maxine.sinclair@slam.nhs.uk Social behaviour Neuropsychology Antisocial Intellectual disabilities Learning disabilities United Kingdom Children (age groups) Research has suggested that individuals with intellectual disability, attention hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum...

... Legislation United Kingdom In 1997, The House of Lords ruled that a man who had been informally admitted to a psychiatric hospital without the capacity to consent to this admission had not been unlawfully detained under the common law. A later European Court of Human Rights ruling, however, found...

.... Marian Quinn can be contacted at: marian.quinn@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Social climate Intellectual disability Psychometrics Reliability Validity Learning disabilities United Kingdom Mental illness Secure services Social climate refers...

... disability Learning disabilities Antipsychotics Medication Physical health Metabolic syndrome Medical treatment United Kingdom In UK clinical practice it has become commonplace for antipsychotic drugs to be prescribed for people with intellectual disability for the treatment of psychiatric...

... should aim to “work with” and support people on their recovery journey (Slade, 2009). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Intellectual disabilities Learning disabilities Recovery Person centred planning Normalization Service philosophy Mental health Mental health services United...

... community approach has not been applied in forensic intellectual disability before, and this paper therefore describes an original and, in many ways, radical intervention. Learning disabilities Personality disorder Therapeutic community United Kingdom Mental illness Social problems Occupational...

...Kuljit Heer; Michael Larkin; Ivan Burchess; John Rose Purpose This study aims to explore the cultural context of care‐giving amongst South Asian communities caring for a child with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom. Design/methodology/approach In the context of the United...

... information. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Autism Parent view Carers Family Medical care Social care United Kingdom Mental health services Lovely baby… Lovely child…but isn't he able to do this/that yet? Then he “closes down”; it is all too much and he cannot...

.... 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...

... Equality Inclusion Intellectual disability Legislation Mental health promotion Policy Learning disability Strategy Mental health services United Kingdom The UK is made up of previously independent countries and has three legal systems. Although there is a central UK parliament...

... managers and healthcare professionals. Although the strategy applies to England only, the principles are of interest to stakeholders in other countries. Autism Health policy Service development Health services United Kingdom The Autism Act 2009 was the first piece of legislation which...