Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 7 Issue 4

Gender issues for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems: asking what service users and staff think

Biza Stenfert Kroese, John Rose, Kuljit Heer, Alexis O’Brien

The current qualitative study aims to investigate service users’, support staff's and community team members’ views of gender differences in cause and presentation of mental…

Gender differences in self‐reported symptoms of depression and anxiety in adults with intellectual disabilities

Rebecca Chester, Eddie Chaplin, Elias Tsakanikos, Jane McCarthy, Nick Bouras, Tom Craig

This study aimed to examine for differences on how symptoms relating to depression and anxiety were reported by males and females with intellectual disability as part of the…

Service users’ experiences, understanding and hopes about care in an inpatient intellectual disability unit: a qualitative study

Lisa Claire Lloyd, Claire Hemming, Derek K. Tracy

Service user involvement in evaluating provided services is a core NHS concept. However individuals with intellectual disabilities have traditionally often had their voices…

Biscuits and perseverance: reflections on supporting a community intellectual disability team to reflect

Esther Wilcox

This paper aims to share information and reflections on the process of setting up case formulation meetings in a community intellectual disability team supporting adults with…

Quality of life and living arrangements for people with intellectual disability

Marco Bertelli, Luis Salvador‐Carulla, Stefano Lassi, Michele Zappella, Raymond Ceccotto, David Palterer, Johan de Groef, Laura Benni, Paolo Rossi Prodi

Recent international experiences of community inclusion have produced a major change in residential care for people with intellectual disability (ID). Assignment and outcome…

The relationship between language and social competence in high‐risk preschoolers

Maria Tzouriadou, George Barbas, Constantinos Vouyoukas, Eleni Anagnostopoulou

This research study aims to examine: whether preschoolers at risk form a homogenous or a heterogeneous group of high‐risk children; and in case preschoolers form a heterogeneous…

Cognitive behaviour therapy with a woman in her twenties with a mild intellectual disability presenting with psychogenic non‐epileptic seizures

Catherine I. Atnas, Tessa Lippold

This case report aims to describe the treatment of a woman (Rachel) in her twenties who was referred to the community team for people with an intellectual disability by her…

Intellectual Disability and Mental Health: A Training Manual in Dual Diagnosis

Helena M. Priest

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