Intellectual Disability in UK Law
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Regulation of intellectual disability services
Purpose: – Winterbourne and Mid-Staffordshire scandals have had a significant impact on how Care Quality Commission inspects and regulates intellectual disability services (IDS). The purpose of thi...
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Assessing risk in services for people with intellectual disability
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to make recommendations for practitioners on risk assessment in relation to people with intellectual disability. Design/methodology/approach: The authors summ...
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Referral patterns to a mental health of intellectual disability team
Purpose: People with an intellectual disability are at an increased risk of developing a mental illness. An estimated 50 per cent develop a significant psychiatric problem at some point in their li...
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Application of DC‐LD to an intellectual disability population
Purpose: The Diagnostic Criteria for Psychiatric Disorders for Use with Adults with Learning Disabilities/Mental Retardation (DC‐LD) was introduced in 2003 in an attempt to improve accuracy of diag...
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Pain experience and management in a forensic intellectual disability service
Purpose: – Research investigating the experience and management of pain in people with intellectual disabilities has mainly been carried out in community services. The purpose of this baseline audi...
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Undergraduate intellectual disability teaching – a medical student's experience
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to describe a medical student's experience of undergraduate teaching in intellectual disabilities. Design/methodology/approach: – This paper presents the re...
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Identifying the prevalence of aggressive behaviour reported by Registered Intellectual Disability Nurses in residential intellectual disability services: an Irish perspective
Purpose: – Despite the high incidence of aggressive behaviours among some individuals with intellectual disability, Ireland has paid little attention to the prevalence of aggressive behaviours expe...
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Predictors of challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent to which mental health, physical health, communication, learned function of the behaviour(s), severity of disability, living arrangem...
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Aggression in Intellectual Disability — A New Approach
Aggressive behaviour is a problem for services providing care for people with intellectual disabilities, affecting the quality of life of the individual and the quality of care provided. Current re...
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Intellectual disability, personality disorder and offending: a systematic review
Purpose: – This review seeks to systematically review studies where personality disorder has been explored as a descriptive or possible predictive factor in offending behaviour in people with an in...
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