Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 6 Issue 1

The PAS‐ADD assessments and their continuing conceptual development

Steve Moss

The PAS‐ADD assessments (Psychiatric Assessment Schedules for Adults with Developmental Disabilities) have their origins in work that was being conducted over 20 years ago on the…

Using service user and clinical opinion to develop the SAINT: a guided self‐help pack for adults with intellectual disability

Eddie Chaplin, Tom Craig, Nick Bouras

In spite of the greater prevalence of mental ill‐health in people with intellectual disabilities, there has been little work specifically aimed at how this group recognise threats…

Improving health and lives: The Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory

Eric Emerson, Gyles Glover, Sue Turner, Rob Greig, Chris Hatton, Susannah Baines, Alison Copeland, Felicity Evison, Hazel Roberts, Janet Robertson, Victoria Welch

The purpose of this paper is to describe the first 15 months of operation of an innovative specialist national public health observatory for intellectual disability.

Knowledge of mental capacity issues in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities

Paul Willner, Jennifer Bridle, Vaughn Price, Elinor John, Sarah Hunt

An earlier study of health and social services professionals in community teams for people with intellectual disabilities (CTIDs) identified a number of significant gaps in their…

Administration of emergency antiepileptics in staffed care homes for people with intellectual disabilities in High Wycombe: survey of staff training status

Sharada Deepak, Elizabeth Obe, Rajnish Attavar

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the training status of staff in care homes for people with intellectual disabilities managed by the non‐health sector in High Wycombe…

Editorial

Steve Hardy, Jane McCarthy