Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 10 Issue 3

Short communication: reliability and validity of the UKU Side Effect Rating Scale for adults with intellectual disabilities

Anne Louise Tveter, Trine Lise Bakken, Jan Ivar Røssberg, Egon Bech-Pedersen, Jørgen G. Bramness

The UKU side effect rating scale for adults with intellectual disabilities (UKU-SERS-ID) was developed to detect side effects among patients with intellectual disabilities (ID)…

Prader Willi syndrome: systematic review of the prevalence and nature of presentation of unipolar depression

Catherine Walton, Mike Kerr

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the prevalence and nature of presentation of unipolar depression in individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS).

Adapted DBT programme for individuals with intellectual disabilities and problems managing emotions: staff awareness training

Sarah Ashworth, Paul Mooney, Ruth Tully

The purpose of this paper is to present the development and evaluation of an original training package for staff members on an awareness of an adapted Dialectical Behaviour…

Resistance to the new paradigm from the other? Personal reflections on becoming a disability psychotherapist

Erica E McInnis

– The purpose of this paper is to reflect on putting a paradigm shift into practice to become a disability psychotherapist (Frankish, 2013a).

Supported work experience and its impact on young people with intellectual disabilities, their families and employers

Stephen Beyer, Andrea Meek, Amy Davies

The Real Opportunities project set out to implement a number of the approaches identified through research that can assist transition to adulthood in nine local authority areas in…

Editorial

Eddie Chaplin, Jean O'Hara