Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities: Volume 2 Issue 4
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Psychological assessment with people with learning disabilities and mental ill‐health
Dave DagnanThis paper will consider the process of psychological assessment for people with learning disabilities and mental ill‐health. The paper will describe a formulation‐driven approach…
How occupational therapists assess adults with learning disabilities
Jo Dwyer, Judith ReepOccupational therapists are concerned with how people perform across the various daily activities that are important to them. It is recognised within occupational therapy that the…
Assessment of communication in people with learning disabilities
Cathy TaylorThorough assessment of communication is of utmost importance for successful working with people with learning disabilities. Indeed, recent legislation now makes it incumbent on…
Psychiatric and mental state assessment in learning disabilities
Alaa Al‐Sheikh, Jean O'HaraMental health assessment in people with learning disability can be a challenging process for clinicians. The more severe the cognitive impairment and level of learning disability…
Mental health assessment of children and adolescents with learning disability
Robin Friedlander, Steve MossUnderstanding the mental health problems of children who have learning disabilities presents huge challenges across many domains. This paper examines some of the assessment…
Psychiatric and behavioural assessment scales for adults with learning disabilities
Gemma Unwin, Shoumitro DebThe paper reports on a review of assessment scales commonly used for assessment of psychiatric illnesses or behaviour problems in adults with learning disabilities. Initially, a…
MHiLD: a model of specialist mental health services for people with learning disabilities
Eddie Chaplin, Jean O'Hara, Geraldine Holt, Steve Hardy, Nick BourasThere are high rates of emotional, behavioural and psychiatric problems (Cooper et al, 2007) in the learning disability population. This paper describes the Mental Health in…
Frequent use of the emergency department by a man with learning disability: an analysis of clinical and systemic contributors
Yona LunskyThis is a case study of a Canadian man with a learning disability who visited emergency departments more than 50 times in a 10‐year period, in times of stress. During these visits…