1st Edition

Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability Strategies and Solutions

Edited By Nick Bouras, Geraldine Holt Copyright 2010
168 Pages
by Psychology Press

168 Pages
by Psychology Press

176 Pages
by Psychology Press

This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice. Nick Bouras and Geraldine Holt both have extensive experience in developing and running mental health services and bring together international contributors all... Read more

Goldberg, Foreword. Bouras, Holt, Introduction. Part I: Development of Specialist Mental Health Services. Chaplin, Paschos, O’Hara, The Specialist Mental Health Model and Other Services in a Changing Environment. Chaplin, Xenitidis, Services for People with Intellectual Disability and Offending Behaviour. Cain, Davidson, Dosen, Garcia-Ibañez, Giesow, Hillery, Kwok, Martorell, Novell-Alsina, Salvador-Carulla, Torr, An International Perspective of Mental Health Services for People with Intellectual Disability. Part II: Clinical Practice. Flynn, Gravestock, Assessment, Diagnosis and Rating Instruments. Hemmings, Service Use and Outcomes. Harding, Robertson, Neuroimaging and Genetic Syndromes. Pickard, Akinsola, The Association Between Psychopathology and Intellectual Disability. Part III: Training as an Integrated Component of Service Delivery. Costello, Hardy, Tsakanikos, McCarthy, Training professionals, family carers and support staff to work effectively with people with intellectual disability and mental health problems.

Biography

Nick Bouras is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom.

Geraldine Holt is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Learning Disabilities at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.

"The book’s style is remarkably readable and consistent for a multi-author text ... I would enthusiastically recommend this book to all clinicians with an interest in the mental health of people with intellectual disability or who have responsibility for managing and developing services. In particular, I think that service managers and commissioners will find it a valuable source of guidance and inspiration." - Adam Kirby, The Ridge Hill Centre, in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research