Services for adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs

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...

Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

In the light of recent National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Committee for the Safety of Medicines (CSM) guidance we discuss the importance of the diagnosis of depression in old age and review pharmacological interventions. An introductory section is followed by sections on each of the main antidepressant groups. This briefly describes their pharmacology and reviews research don...

Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

Study Service re-design for older people with mental health difficulties is described, where the addition of an Assertive Outreach Team integrated with Day Hospital, Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) and existing in-patient facilities was implemented to decrease the reliance on hospital services and provide a greater emphasis on community intervention. Method Comparison of audit data before...

How does front-line staff feel about the quality and accessibility of mental health services for adults with learning disabilities?

Services for people with learning disabilities have been transformed since the late 1960s have been transformed since the late 1960s by the move from institutional to community by the move from institutional to community care. (Learning disabilities is the term care. (Learning disabilities is the term currently used in the UK in preference to currently used in the UK in preference to mental ret...

Angela Hassiotis , Phil Barron and Jean O ' Hara disabilities Mental health services for people with learning