... Learning disabilities Numerous authors (Shuker, 2010 ; McManus, 2010) recognise that the engagement of personality disordered offenders in a long‐term treatment programme presents the clinical team with a range of difficulties. Transference and counter‐transference, treatment resistance...

... of barriers and their impact on children and young people with learning disabilities. Children and young people with learning disabilities are at a disproportionate risk of experiencing mental health problems yet access and experience of CAMHS can be highly uneven. Families are often unclear about how...

...Axel Kaehne Governmental policy identifies choice as a central theme for support services to people with learning disabilities. The expansion of options about where to live, what to do and with whom to socialise is seen as a critical benchmark in achieving the vision of full lives for people...

...David Stewart ‘Making it happen for everyone’ is the subtext of Valuing People Now: a new three‐year strategy for people with learning disabilities (Department of Health, 2009). It seems an appropriate time to take stock and learn from those for whom this strategy will be critical how they view...

...Ian Smellie These words have been written by a society chairman who has had a limited direct ‘family caring’ role but for the past 10 years has striven, with others, to provide local support for adults and children with learning disabilities, and their carers, and to campaign to the limit...