... withdrawal and relapse effects. Clinical clarity and carer engagement are key to safe and effective prescribing, although in reality, this can be challenging. Originality/value This paper will be of value to all professionals with a role in the effective deprescribing of psychiatric medications...

... was a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data from the care records of all 36 people with intellectual disability discharged from an intellectual disability assessment and treatment unit during the first five years of the Stop Over medicating People with Intellectual Disabilities and/or autistic people...

...Ruth M. Lee; Jennifer A. Rhodes; David Gerrard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) can be used as an alternative to psychotropic medication to improve the quality of life of an individual with a learning disability and behaviour described...

... Intellectual disability Sexuality Medication The review by Ellena Wood and Neel Halder looks at the literature where the gender of people with learning disabilities is contested. This includes individuals who do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth or whose behaviour conflicts...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Institution Neglect Abuse Medication European Commission Feature Institutions remain dumping grounds for forgotten people1 Yana Buhrer Tavanier Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, Bulgaria Abstract Reform is coming too slowly to institutions...