Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities: Volume 3 Issue 2

Editorial

Steve Hardy, Jane McCarthy

Green Light for mental health in Hampshire

Jane Eastwood, Ronnie Borrows, Dave Ferguson, Nike Redding, Matthew Ricketts

Green Light was developed to enable service providers to implement the National Service Framework for Mental Health (NSF MH), and asks how good your mental health services are for…

Mental health services for people with a learning disability

Stuart Cumella

Many parts of the world are developing specialist mental health services for people with a learning disability. Government policy in England appears to favour a move in the…

Staff training in the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities in the UK

Peter Woodward, Sarah Halls

The general knowledge and skills of staff working with people with learning disabilities have been of interest for a number of years, and Valuing People (DH, 2001) highlighted…

Staff stress and people who have mental health needs living in new models of service

John Rose

This paper introduces some of the research that has been conducted into staff stress in learning disability services. It also examines how some individual characteristics of…

An exploration of learning disability and mental health nurses' perspectives on co‐working in the Republic of Ireland

Martina Conway, Laurence Taggart

There is an ongoing debate about how specialist psychiatric services for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems should be developed. Nursing personnel are…

Blue sky thinking? I don't think so

Elizabeth Attfield

This is a personal account of the issues faced by carers of a young adult with autism and a learning disability in making the transition from children's services to an adult…

It's our mental health!

Service user views of long‐term individual psychodynamic psychotherapy

Charlotte Merriman, Nigel Beail

Long‐term psychodynamic psychotherapy is a costly service to provide, but many clinicians believe it is of benefit for people who have learning disabilities and psychological…

De novo inverted interstitial duplication 8q22.1‐q21.1 in a boy with moderate learning disabilities, mild autistic and dysmorphic features

Gerasimos Kolaitis, Katerina Papanikolaou, Elena Paliokosta, John Tsiantis, Yolanda Gyftodimou, Catherine Sarri, Michael Petersen, Haris Kokotas

We describe a 13 1/2‐year‐old boy with de novo inverted interstitial duplication 8q22.1‐q21.1 associated with mild phenotypic abnormalities, learning disabilities and autism…

Learning Disability and Social Inclusion. A Review of Current Policy and Practice

Stuart Cumella