Specific learning difficulties, delinquency and mental disorders: (Dis)abilities and ghosts

Students with Disabilities, Learning Difficulties and Disadvantages

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...

Children with Specific Learning Disabilities: Identification, Assessment and Guidelines for Teachers and Parents

Background: According to the latest definition presented by American Psychiatric Association within the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) published may 2013, a specific learning disabilities characterized as a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects individual learning. In this edition, the term “learning disability” was changed to the “specific...