Studies have found family interventions (FIs) to be effective in reducing stress and relapse rates for a variety of mental health conditions. However, implementing FIs into clinical practice is challenging. Studies have suggested levels of stress within some families of people with intellectual disabilities can be high. However, there is little reported about the use, and implementation of FIs, such as Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT), in adult intellectual disability services. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
For services across the UK, increasing emphasis is placed on the use of evidence-based psychological treatments. In this context, the Scottish Government published the MATRIX, a best-practice clinical governance document, with a brief section on therapies for people with learning disabilities. As with most clinical guidelines, randomised controlled trials were considered the “gold standard.” However, within the learning disability field, the existing evidence base is relatively limited, resulting in a narrow guidance for services. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Aggressive challenging behaviour is very common in care homes for people with intellectual disability, and better psychological treatments are needed. Nidotherapy aims to change the environment of people with mental illness and is an appropriate treatment for this group of disorders. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
There are few valid and reliable psychological therapy outcome measures available for use with people with intellectual disabilities (ID). The current study involved the development of a new scale; the Psychological Therapies Outcome Scale – Intellectual Disabilities (PTOS-ID), and the examination of its validity and internal consistency. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
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People with intellectual disabilities (ID) should be able to access the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, currently a main provider of mainstream mental health services in England. IAPT offer cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to individuals experiencing mental health problems, although its effectiveness for people with ID, when delivered within IAPT, is unclear. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Dialectical behaviour therapy is a “talking” therapy developed by Marsha Linehan. It helps people who are living in the community and also living in hospitals and people who may have problems managing their emotions.
In recent years, dialectical behaviour therapy has been used to help people with learning disabilities cope with feelings of anxiety, trauma-related disorders and mood disorders, but there are not many research papers showing how it is used in forensic learning disability services.
This research tells the story of seven women with learning disabilities who took part in dialectical behaviour therapy whilst living in a forensic service.
Their story and experiences are important in research literature and will help other services to think about what is needed when they introduce a new type of therapy such as dialectical behaviour therapy Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
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Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy8.6 (Nov 2016): 709-719.
Objective: People with intellectual disabilities may be at a greater risk for exposure to traumatic events and consequently develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an established treatment for PTSD in the general population, research on people with intellectual disabilities is limited. This review aims to critically appraise for the 1st time case studies published in this area, because no controlled investigations are available at present. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Our Trust has been shortlisted in the ‘Diversity and Equality in Service Delivery’ category of the 2016 Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards for our work on a project that has been designed to enable local people with a learning disability to access mainstream NHS psychological therapies more easily.
The project, which is still ongoing, aims to increase the number of people with learning disabilities accessing - and completing - a course of the Trust’s mainstream psychological therapy services for mild to moderate mental health illnesses such as depression and anxiety. To do this, staff training around working with people with learning disabilities has been delivered and materials have been redesigned to better suit the needs of people with learning disabilities.
There is mixed evidence regarding the effectiveness of psychological therapies for people with intellectual and developmental disorders. Although systematic reviews have supported the use of dialectical behaviour therapy with people with borderline personality disorder, there are no comparable reviews regarding DBT with people with intellectual and development disabilities. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
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The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service was established to address common mental health problems among the English population in a timely manner in order to counter the social and economic disadvantage accompanying such difficulties. Using the concept of candidacy, we examined how the legitimacy of claims by people with intellectual disabilities to use this service is facilitated or impeded. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
This blog looks at a recent study which aimed to examine the experiences and views of IAPT workers about providing therapy for people with learning disabilities. The authors hoped to examine therapists’ views of perceived barriers, solutions, and any relationships between therapist factors (i.e. training, experience) with their attitude and confidence when working with people with learning disabilities.