Inpatient services for children and young people with an intellectual disability

Lisa Rippon

doi:10.5042/amhid.2010.0669

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Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

ISSN: 2044-1282
Previously published as: Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

Online from: 2010

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Inpatient services for children and young people with an intellectual disability

Document Information:
Title:	Inpatient services for children and young people with an intellectual disability
Author(s):	Lisa Rippon, (Intellectual Disability, Prudhoe Hospital, Northumberland, UK)
Citation:	Lisa Rippon, (2010) "Inpatient services for children and young people with an intellectual disability", Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. 4 Iss: 4, pp.4 - 8
Keywords:	Inpatient services, Intellectual disability, Learning disability, Young people
Article type:	General review
DOI:	10.5042/amhid.2010.0669 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Abstract:	Children and young people with an intellectual disability (referred to in this article as young people) have a higher incidence of mental illness and challenging behaviour than individuals without cognitive impairment. Inpatient assessment and treatment in a learning disability-specific provision rather than mainstream inpatient child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is most beneficial for those young people who experience a more severe intellectual disability or whose presenting complaint is challenging behaviour not associated with a co-morbid mental illness. Assessment and treatment of this complex group of young people can only be successful if the services which manage them have access to a highly experienced and comprehensive multidisciplinary team. Admission is only worthwhile if recommendations that arise from the assessment can be transferred to the community and those involved in supporting the young person are motivated to work in collaboration with the inpatient team.