Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 14 Issue 2

Editorial

Jennifer Clegg

The Agony and the Inspiration: Professionals' Accounts of Working with People with Learning Disabilities

Naomi Wilson, Herman Meininger, David Charnock

Professionals' accounts of working in challenging service environments bring into relief the tensions they experience in their work. An ethical dilemma where the wellbeing of a…

Making it Happen for Everyone: A Reflection on Changing Services for Adults with Learning Disabilities

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…

The Perspective of a Local Mencap Society

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…

Health and Social Needs of People with Low Intelligence

Justine Schneider, Jennifer Clegg

This paper explores the experiences of people with borderline and low intelligence when compared to the general population. The aim was to explore whether people with low…

Aggression in Intellectual Disability — A New Approach

Katie Turner, David Clarke

Aggressive behaviour is a problem for services providing care for people with intellectual disabilities, affecting the quality of life of the individual and the quality of care…

Choice for Young People with Learning Disabilities in Post‐education Transition

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…

Being in Control: Personal Budgets and the New Landscape of Care for People with Learning Disabilities

Edward Hall

A central element in the shift to a ‘personalised’ care system in the UK is the opportunity for disabled people to hold and manage budgets for the purchase of care and support, to…