Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability Strategies and Solutions

Abstract

This text 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. The specialist mental health model and other services in a changing environment / Eddie Chaplin, Dimitrios Paschos & Jean O'Hara -- Services for people with intellectual disability and offending behaviour / Eddie Chaplin & Kiriakos Xenitidis -- An international perspective of mental health services for people with intellectual disability / Nancy Cain [and others] -- Assessment, diagnosis, and rating instruments / Andrew Flynn and Shaun Gravestock -- Service use and outcomes / Colin Hemmings -- Neuroimaging and genetic syndromes / Duncan Harding and Dene Robertson -- The association between psychopathology and intellectual disability / Max Pickard and Titi Akinsola -- Training professionals, family carers, and support staff to work effectively with people with intellectual disability and mental health problems / Helen Costello [and others].