Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 4 Issue 3

Editorial Best practice in pharmacological interventions

Shoumitro Deb

The use of medication to manage behaviour problems in adults with an intellectual disability: a national guideline

Gemma Unwin, Shoumitro Deb

This article describes a national guideline for the use of medication in the management of problem behaviours in adults with an intellectual disability. As problem behaviours in…

The use of psychotropic medication for the management of problem behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities living in Canada

Elspeth Bradley, Thomas Cheetham

The paper provides a Canadian perspective on the use of psychotropic medication in the management of problem behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities in Canada…

Prescribing psychotropic medication for problem behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities in a specialist psychiatric unit in Hong Kong

Henry Kwok, Eileena Chui, Alexander Tang

Psychotropic medications are often used to treat problem behaviours in people with intellectual disability which not only occur frequently but also tend to persist over time. This…

Ethical issues of psychotropic medication for people with intellectual disabilities

Raghu Raghavan, Pradip Patel

There is over‐use of psychotropic medication with people with intellectual disabilities. Many of these individuals do not have the capacity to understand and retain the relevant…

A case series on the use of risperidone for the management of aggression in adults with intellectual disabilities

Shoumitro Deb, Ajit Gomez

Antipsychotic drugs are often used outside their licensed indication to manage aggression in adults with intellectual disabilities in the absence of a diagnosed psychiatric…

A case study of a young man with intellectual disability, mitochondrial disorder, epilepsy, autism and psychosis: how did we decide which psychotropic drug to use?

Simon Bonell, Jane McCarthy

This case report highlights the complex factors in prescribing psychotropic medication for people with intellectual disability with significant co‐morbid physical and mental…

Trauma and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a high secure forensic learning disability population: future directions for practice

Irene Brackenridge, Catrin Morrissey

Literature on trauma and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has neglected the needs of people with intellectual disability, particularly those in forensic settings. The…