Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 5 Issue 3

Experiences of violence at work in community intellectual disability teams

Shona Daynes, Sarah Wills, Peter Baker

Much of the research related to experiences of violence at work in intellectual disability services has focused on paid carers, with very little exploring the experiences of staff…

Attachment style and mental health in adults with intellectual disability: self‐reports and reports by carers

Felicity V. Larson, Nadja Alim, Elias Tsakanikos

This pilot study aimed to investigate whether adults with mild/moderate intellectual disabilities could accurately self‐report their attachment style. It explored whether there is…

Referral patterns to a mental health of intellectual disability team

Ali Ajaz, Mo Eyeoyibo

People with an intellectual disability are at an increased risk of developing a mental illness. An estimated 50 per cent develop a significant psychiatric problem at some point in…

Challenging behaviour: service user consultation

Jodie Louise Fellows, Lizanne Jones

This purpose of this paper is to seek service users' opinions in order to assist the development of the challenging behaviour strategy (CBS) being developed by Worcestershire…

Monitoring for metabolic syndrome in people with intellectual disability on antipsychotic medication

Raghu Baburaj, Mohamed El Tahir

People with intellectual disability are subject to increased health morbidity when compared to the general population. This paper assesses the monitoring of metabolic syndrome in…

Partial trisomy of the long arm of Chromosome 6 in a female with mild intellectual disability and mental health problems

Dimitrios Paschos, Mohammed Omer Rather, Sally Walsh, Frances Flinter

The purpose of this paper is to be the first known case report of a patient with mild intellectual disabilities who has a novel partial trisomy of the long arm of Chromosome 6…

Change of ownership for Pier Professional

Rebecca Marsh

Editorial

Steve Hardy, Jane McCarthy