Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 9 Issue 4

Down 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 Down syndrome (DS).

Personality disorder and intellectual disability – concept and prevalence

Hilde Katrine Andersen

The range of prevalence of personality disorder (PD) found in people with intellectual disability (ID) has been reported as vast, and has included data from dissimilar settings…

Improving the detection of detainees with suspected intellectual disability in police custody

Iain McKinnon, Julie Thorp, Don Grubin

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First to ascertain the efficacy of current police reception screening to detect detainees with intellectual disability (ID). Second to assess…

Home visits: a reflection on family contact in a specialist forensic intellectual disability service

Lucinda Cheshire, Verity Chester, Alex Graham, Jackie Grace, Regi T Alexander

There is little published literature about the number of home visits provided to patients within forensic intellectual disability units, and there is no published data on…

Application of community treatment orders (CTOs) in adults with intellectual disability and mental disorders

Jaya Gupta, Angela Hassiotis, Ingrid Bohnen, Yogesh Thakker

The purpose of this paper is to explore use of community treatment orders (CTOs) in adults with intellectual disability (ID) and mental health problems across England and Wales…

IAPT practitioners’ experiences of providing therapy to people with intellectual disabilities

Jennifer Shankland, Dave Dagnan

The purpose of this paper is to describe the views and experiences of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) practitioners in providing therapy to patients who have an…

Psychiatry of intellectual disabilities faculty special edition

Jane McCarthy, John Devapriam