Learning disability teams and mental health trusts

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A Call to Coordinate Mental Health Teams

A Vision for Change set out a tripartite governance structure of mental health teams comprising of a clinical leader, a team co-ordinator and a practice manager. The team coordinator position is a key nondiscipline specific role within the team with significant responsibilities. This article sets out how the skill set of psychologists lends itself to effectively occupying this role. It outlines...

Heritage and Stigma. Co-producing and communicating the histories of mental health and learning disability

University engagement with mental health services has traditionally been informed by the vocational and pedagogical links between the two sectors. However, a growth in the interest in public history and in the history of mental healthcare has offered new opportunities for those in the humanities to engage new audiences and to challenge perceptions about care in the past. The introduction of the...

Community mental health teams in low- and middle-income countries.

The dearth of trained mental health professionals and the huge gap in providing accessible services in many low- and middle-income countries have led to the identification of alternate providers of care in these countries. Community mental health teams seem to fill this lacuna in some of these places. This editorial addresses issues of the need for such teams, their composition, responsibilitie...

Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

Intensive Interaction is a socially interactive approach to supporting and developing the pre-verbal communication and sociability of people with severe or profound learning disabilities, or severe autism. Developed in the 1980’s from the psychological model of ‘augmented mothering’ the approach currently has an increasing number of proponents who make claims for increased social responsiveness...