Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 6 Issue 3

Strapline:

formerly Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
Subject:

Table of contents

The Autism Strategy: implications for people with autism and for service development

Nick Walsh, Ian Hall

The aim of this article is to critically review the Autism Strategy and to discuss its implications.

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Diagnosis and assessment in autism spectrum disorders

Peter Carpenter

The paper aims to provide an overview of the current situation with diagnosis and assessment in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

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Prevalence of anxiety disorder in children and young people with intellectual disabilities and autism

Ereny Gobrial, Raghu Raghavan

Children and young people with co‐morbid intellectual disabilities and autism are more prone to experience mental health problems compared to people with intellectual disabilities…

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The long, silent scream (of a parent/carer)

This paper seeks to present the viewpoint of a family carer of a young man with autism.

512

England and Northern Ireland policy and law update relating to mental health and intellectual disability

Eddie Chaplin, Laurence Taggart

This article aims to bring readers up to date with policy developments in England and Northern Ireland in the last two years since the journal first reported on these issues.

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Women with intellectual disability in secure settings and their mental health needs

Elizabeth Beber

This article aims to describe the development of secure services for women with intellectual disability in the UK and to outline what is known about their mental health needs.

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Cover of Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

ISSN:

2044-1282

Online date, start – end:

2010

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Ken Courtenay