Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 17 Issue 1

Evaluating workforce needs for higher specialist training for psychiatry of intellectual disability in Kent, Surrey and Sussex: a workforce scoping service evaluation

Raja A.S. Mukherjee, Mary Ondrusz

Whilst recruitment and retention of high-quality staff is vital to providing a good service, at the time of the evaluations, Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) was the only area of the…

Caregivers experiences of caring for people with intellectual disability and dementia: a qualitative evidence synthesis

Daniel James Acton, Sujeet Jaydeokar, Steven Jones

A systematic review of the literature was completed to examine the needs of those who provide care to people with intellectual disability and dementia. The purpose of this paper…

Co-design and development of a multi-component anxiety management programme for people with an intellectual disability

Daniel James Acton, Robert Waites, Sujeet Jaydeokar, Steven Jones

This paper aims to understand the lived experience of people with intellectual disability of their anxiety and of being co-design partners in developing a multi-component approach…

Investigating the experience of professional carers supporting individuals with intellectual disability who were at risk of admission – a qualitative study

Mizla Manandhar-Richardson, Ceri Woodrow, Georgia Cooper-Taylor

This study aims to understand the experiences of professional paid carers providing community support to people with intellectual disability “at risk of admission”. This study…

Spanish validation of the Glasgow depression scale for people with intellectual disabilities (GDS-LD) and of the Glasgow depression care supplement scale (GDS-CS)

Mercedes Hernandez Nuñez-Polo, Elena-María Lorenzo-Llamas, Maria-Concepcion Alonso-Rodriguez, Jose-Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Almudena Martorell

This study aims to validate a Spanish version of the Glasgow Depression Scale for Learning Disability (GDS-LD) and of the Glasgow Depression Care Supplement Scale (GDS-CS).