Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 8 Issue 6
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formerly Advances in Mental Health and Learning DisabilitiesTable of contents - Special Issue: Teaching, education and training
Undergraduate intellectual disability teaching – a medical student's experience
Iona Campbell– The purpose of this paper is to describe a medical student's experience of undergraduate teaching in intellectual disabilities.
A re-design of undergraduate medical training in intellectual disability: building psychological capital and imparting knowledge to redress health inequalities
Ian Harwood, Angela HassiotisOver 1,250 people with intellectual disabilities die unnecessarily every year in NHS care. The purpose of this paper is to develop higher-order learning amongst medical students…
Involving people with intellectual disabilities in the assessment of healthcare professionals
Sujata Soni, Ian Hall, Phill Doulton, Peter BowieIt is widely recognised that people with intellectual disabilities receive a poorer quality of healthcare than their non-disabled counterparts. Training for healthcare…
Training community nurses on supporting families with children who have developmental difficulties: lessons from the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia
Roy McConkey, Sue Macdonald, Marlene Sinclair, Igor VeljkovikIn the former Yugoslavian republics, community nursing services are not well developed to support families with infants who have developmental problems. The purpose of this paper…
Intellectual disability and mental health: is psychology prepared?
Nancy J. Razza, Laura Schwartz Dayan, Daniel Tomasulo, Michelle S. BallanThe purpose of this paper is threefold: to document the relationship between intellectual disability (ID) and psychopathology; to raise awareness of the ongoing lag in…
Training and developing staff in general hospitals: intellectual disability liaison nurses and the RAID model
Nick Walsh, Tricia Handley, Ian HallThe purpose of this paper is to address the serious problems that people with intellectual disability face in getting their healthcare needs met in general hospitals by improving…
Avoiding delays in diagnosis: the importance of proactive liaison and education of staff in the general hospital
Anna Walder, Robert Green, Sujata SoniThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the difficulties patients with intellectual disabilities face when they present to a general hospital with ambiguous symptoms and…
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- Dr Ken Courtenay