Guide to Mental Health for Families and Carers of People with Intellectual Disabilities
eBook - PDF

Guide to Mental Health for Families and Carers of People with Intellectual Disabilities

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Guide to Mental Health for Families and Carers of People with Intellectual Disabilities

About this book

A practical and comprehensive introduction for carers to mental health problems, this accessible guide outlines a range of signs and symptoms of mental health problems that can affect people with intellectual disabilities. The guide explains why mental health problems develop, and advises on what can be done to help people with intellectual disabilities and carers themselves. With chapters on specific disabilities such as autism and epilepsy, the authors cover topics such as:

* treatment and interventions for mental health problems

* getting the best services and understanding policy around mental health and intellectual disabilities

* legal issues, for example, what it means to `give consent'

* carers' needs and support for carers.

Written with advice from carers and people with intellectual disabilities who use mental health services, this book is an essential resource for all those who care for, and with, people with learning disabilities.

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Yes, you can access Guide to Mental Health for Families and Carers of People with Intellectual Disabilities by Anastasia Gratsa, Geraldine Holt, Nick Bouras in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Mental Health in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Guide to Mental Health for Families and Carers of People with Intellectual Disabilities
  2. Contents
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND THIS GUIDE
  5. What is this Guide for?
  6. 1 General Information Regarding Mental Health Problems
  7. 2 Mental Health Problems
  8. 3 Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Health Problems
  9. 4 Therapeutic Interventions
  10. 5 Challenging Behaviour
  11. 6 Law, Policy and Ethical Issues
  12. 7 Autism
  13. 8 Epilepsy
  14. 9 Carers’ Needs and Support
  15. APPENDIX: INFORMATION FROM THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT (1983)
  16. FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES
  17. GLOSSARY
  18. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  19. INDEX