Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 9 Issue 1

Intellectual disability and the ICD-11: towards clinical utility?

Sherva Elizabeth Cooray, Sab Bhaumik, Ashok Roy, John Devapriam, Rahul Rai, Regi Alexander

The 11th revision of the International Classification of diseases which sets global standards for defining, reporting and managing health conditions is under way. The…

How can mental health clinicians, working in intellectual disability services, meet the spiritual needs of their service users?

Benjamin Loynes, Jean O'Hara

The purpose of this paper is to identify approaches that mental health clinicians, working in intellectual disability services, can adopt to ensure the spiritual needs of their…

Managers’ views of the effects on their service of hosting a cognitive-behavioural anger management group

Nicola Rose, John Rose, Biza Stenfert Kroese, Aimee Stimpson, Pamela MacMahon, Andrew Jahoda, Julia Townson, David Felce, Kerenza Hood, Paul Willner

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how service managers perceive their service prior to, and following the delivery of a cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) anger…

Cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Krister W. Fjermestad, Torun M. Vatne, Helene Gjone

22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is a rare genetic syndrome involving high risk of psychiatric disorders with average intellectual functioning in the lower borderline range…

Staff views of a music therapy group for people with intellectual disabilities and dementia: a pilot study

Shelley Bevins, Simone Dawes, Athena Kenshole, Kathryn Gaussen

Despite the longstanding use of music therapy with people with intellectual disabilities and the growing evidence base for using music therapy as a tool to aid behavioural and…

Advances in mental health and intellectual disabilities

Eddie Chaplin, Jean O'Hara