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

Editorial

Steve Hardy, Jane McCarthy

Inpatient services for children and young people with an intellectual disability

Lisa Rippon

Children and young people with an intellectual disability (referred to in this article as young people) have a higher incidence of mental illness and challenging behaviour than…

This far, yet how much further? Reflections on the allure of the mainstream for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health needs

Andrew Flynn

Services for people with intellectual disabilities would be barely recognisable to clinicians working half a century ago. Two forces in particular stand out as driving the changes…

Secure inpatient services for people with intellectual disability: lessons from developing a new service

Ian Hall, Evan Yacoub, Babur Yusufi

Secure inpatient services for people with intellectual disability are provided in a piecemeal way, often without strategic commissioning. We describe how we conducted a needs…

Low security: patient characteristics which lead to an offer of admission and staff perceptions in a unit for people with intellectual disability

Evan Yacoub

Low security is a poorly understood concept, particularly in relation to people with an intellectual disability. Characteristics of patients offered an admission to low secure…

Using a simulation exercise to develop staff competence in a specialist inpatient service

Steve Hardy, Eddie Chaplin

This case report provides a description of a simulation exercise as part of the induction programme for a staff team recruited to a specialist inpatient service for adults with…

Improving mental health services for people with intellectual disabilities: service users' views

Alex O'Brien, John Rose

The aim of this study was to seek the opinions of people with an intellectual disability who have additional mental health needs about the mental health services they receive. A…

Difficulties of dealing with dementia in individuals with intellectual disabilities: the healthcare perspective

Hannah Jethwa, Geraldine Cassidy

Dementia is a condition that involves inevitably progressive deficits in numerous cognitive domains, including thought, language, memory, understanding and judgement. A difference…

A Guide for Advocates Supporting People with Learning Disabilities who are Described as Having Challenging Behaviour

Michael Hearn