Browsing Intellectual disabilities by Title
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2400 Day in the life
(2005)With five years' experience in the research world, Sue Jaycock tells Paul Dinsdale how she now helps others to follow in her footsteps. -
A comparison of anger in offenders and non-offenders who have intellectual disabilities
(2013)Background: There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy to treat anger in offenders with intellectual disabilities. The aim is to lower anger levels; the rationale is that this will ... -
A comparison of offenders with intellectual disability across three levels of security
(2006)BACKGROUND: A number of authors have described, with disparate results, the prevalence of people with intellectual disability and their characteristics, in a range of offender cohorts defined by service use. These have ... -
A comparison of three approaches to delivering a speech and language therapy service to people with learning disabilities
(1997)This research aimed to compare three different approaches to delivering a speech and language therapy service to people with learning disabilities, in order to make recommendations for future service delivery. The three ... -
A psychodynamic interpretation of staff accounts of working with people who have learning disabilities and complex needs
(2012)Experiences of eight staff working with people who have a learning disability and complex mental health needs were explored by interviews and analysed using the free association narrative interview approach (Hollway & ... -
A systematic review and synthesis of outcome domains for use within forensic services for people with intellectual disabilities
(2017)BACKGROUNDThere is limited empirical information on service-level outcome domains and indicators for the large number of people with intellectual disabilities being treated in forensic psychiatric hospitals.AIMSThis study ... -
A therapeutic community for personality disorder in a high secure intellectual disability service: Inception and early experiences
(2012)Purpose: This paper seeks to explain the reasons for use of a therapeutic community for personality disorder in a high secure intellectual disability service. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes the rationale ... -
Adapting individual psychotherapy for adults with intellectual disabilities: A comparative review of the cognitive-behavioural and psychodynamic literature
(2006)Background Historically, adults with intellectual disabilities have had little access to individual psychotherapy. Over the last 20 years an increasing body of literature has described psychotherapy with this client group ... -
Addressing the inverse care law: The role of community paediatric services
(2014)Background: Children's health suffers disproportionately from the effects of poverty. The inverse care law states that those who need care the most are the least likely to receive it. Community paediatricians are well ... -
Adult attachment and care staff functioning
(2016)Care staff around the world make huge differences every day in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Care staff provide support, advice and protection, and may scaffold the autonomous exploration and ... -
Alcohol problems and intellectual disability
(1999)The present paper discusses some of the difficulties in working with people with an intellectual disability and an alcohol problem, and draws on the sparse literature about alcohol problems in people with intellectual ... -
The analysis of talk sessions between staff and adults with profound intellectual disability
(1991)Examined interactions between 20 adults (aged 16–38 yrs; developmental age 1–25 mo) with profound intellectual disability and staff of social services day centers, during sessions when the Ss' staff member talked with them. ... -
Antenatal support for people with learning disabilities
(2015)Following the introduction of learning disability nurses in acute and primary care in 2009, several health areas were taken into consideration as a priority for change. Maternity services were considered in order to bring ... -
Antisocial and psychopathic personality disorders in forensic intellectual disability populations: What do we know so far?
(2011)Antisocial personality disorder (APD) and the more severe personality disorder of psychopathy both have particular relevance to forensic populations, but it is only recently that these constructs have begun to be explored ... -
Applicability, reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in offenders with intellectual disabilities: Some initial findings
(2005)As apart of a larger study, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) was used to assess psychopathy in 203 individuals from three UK National Health Service settings for offenders with intellectual disabilities (ID): a ... -
Assessing adaptive behaviour with pre-lingually deaf people with an intellectual disability who use sign language
(2015)Objectives: To determine whether the traditional assessment of adaptive behaviour is valid with deaf people who use sign language. Some Deaf people with a mild intellectual disability often struggle to gain fluency in sign ... -
Assessment of the feasibility and clinical value of further research to evaluate the management options for children with Down syndrome and otitis media with effusion: A feasibility study
(2014)Background: There is clinical uncertainty of the benefits and costs of different treatment options for children with Down syndrome who have glue ear. This study was designed to assess the extent of this lack of knowledge ... -
Attachment and learning disability: A theoretical review informing three clinical interventions
(1995)Attachment theory makes sense of 2 phenomena observed in some people with learning disabilities: it provides a reason for their limited exploration of the world and it explains discontinuities in the pattern and intensity ... -
Audit of the use of psychotropic medication for challenging behaviour in a community learning disability service
(2004)Aims and method. The aims of the study were to identify patients in a community learning disability service receiving psychotropic medication for challenging behaviour, to examine prescribing practice and to compare this ...
