Kind minds: using the ‘compassionate kitbag’ in a compassion focused therapy group for adults with intellectual disabilities
Andy Busfield, Charlotte Peters, Karen McKenzie Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to describe and evaluate the impact of a compassion-focused therapy (CFT) group for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID).People with ID are commonly subjected to stigmatising experiences that can contribute to feelings of shame. CFT targets shame and self-criticism by helping people to cultivate self-compassion. There is evidence to suggest that CFT can be meaningfully adapted for people with ID. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected using a...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - December 21, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Andy Busfield Charlotte Peters Karen McKenzie Source Type: research

To say (sexual fetish) … or not to say (sexual fetish). That is the question
To say (sexual fetish)… or not to say (sexual fetish). That is the question Robert John Searle Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- In a recent report the author wrote about a service user, the author was challenged by the service user’s advocate in respect of the author’s use of the term “sexual fetish”. The author was informed of the advocate’s fears in respect of people involved in the service user’s future care and support needs feeling uncomfortable and possibly stigmatising someone having a sexual fetish. Consequently, the author was aske...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - November 22, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Robert John Searle Source Type: research

Forensic mental health intellectual and developmental disability service: an analysis of referral patterns and comparison with community mental health intellectual disability (MHID) services in Ireland
Afwan Abdul Wahab, Calvin Har, Sarah Casey, Hugh Ramsay, Brendan McCormack, Niamh Mulryan, Anita Ambikapathy, Anthony Kearns Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this study is to analyse the characteristics of all the referrals to the forensic MHIDD service over the past five years and to compare these characteristics to the cohort of service users attending the three general MHID services based in Dublin which are Service 1, Service 2 and Service 3.This is a cross-sectional study of adults attending the three generic MHID services and the ...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - October 31, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Afwan Abdul Wahab Calvin Har Sarah Casey Hugh Ramsay Brendan McCormack Niamh Mulryan Anita Ambikapathy Anthony Kearns Source Type: research

Project ECHO-AIDD: recommendations for care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
This study aims to describe patients presented in an interprofessional, virtual education program focused on the mental health of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), as well as present interprofessional recommendations for care.In this retrospective chart review, descriptive statistics were used to describe patients. Content analysis was used to analyze interprofessional recommendations. The authors used the H.E.L.P. (health, environment, lived experience and psychiatric disorder) framework to conceptualize and analyze the interprofessional recommendations.Themes related to the needs of adults wi...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - October 31, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Olivia Mendoza Anupam Thakur Ullanda Niel Kendra Thomson Yona Lunsky Nicole Bobbette Source Type: research

Assessing adherence to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence dementia assessment and diagnosis guidelines in adults with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study
This study aims to evaluate the dementia assessment and diagnosis care provided to adults with intellectual disability. The authors selected recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) standards which could be evidenced in clinical notes and aimed to identify characteristics which may be associated with improved adherence to these recommendations.The study population was adults with an intellectual disability who were diagnosed with dementia between January 2019 and December 2022 by a UK-based intellectual disability service. Data to demonstrate adherence to selected recommendations an...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - October 30, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Caroline Duncan Ewan Wilkinson Sujeet Jaydeokar Daniel James Acton Source Type: research

Adherence to care and treatment review policy and impact on length of stay
Lucy Jade Jones, Ceri Woodrow Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this clinical audit was to review the adherence to the 2017 care and treatment review policy across two NHS assessment and treatment units. Care and treatment reviews should be offered to people with an intellectual disability and/or autism who are at risk of admission into a mental health hospital.Admission and discharge data was collected across two assessment and treatment units between January 2019 and December 2022. Adherence to the care and treatment review policy was al...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - October 23, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Lucy Jade Jones Ceri Woodrow Source Type: research

Universal Needs Based Resource Assessment (UNBRA) an objective approach to evaluate resources needed to support people with intellectual disability in an inpatient setting
Susanne Meddings, Mahesh Odiyoor, Holly Eick, Katie Kavanagh, Sujeet Jaydeokar Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- There are no existing tools to capture resources needed to support people with intellectual disability in an inpatient setting on an individual patient basis. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a new tool called Universal Needs Based Resource Assessment (UNBRA).Using the Delphi method, focus groups were used to generate factors determining resource use. From these, themes were identified, a scoring system was created a...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - September 8, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Susanne Meddings Mahesh Odiyoor Holly Eick Katie Kavanagh Sujeet Jaydeokar Source Type: research

A survey of therapists ’ experience of ending therapy with people with intellectual disabilities
This study aims to report the results of an online survey of the practice of therapists working with people with intellectual disabilities in managing endings in therapy.Thirty-one therapists working with people with intellectual disabilities responded to an online survey. The data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.Three superordinate themes were identified: Theme 1 was “preparing for a therapeutic ending” with subordinate themes of “planning early”, “providing boundaries” and “validating feelings”; Theme 2 was “providing a therapeutic ending”, with subordinate themes of “a collaborative...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - July 20, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Yasmine Dunn S.J. (Ash) Summers Dave Dagnan Source Type: research

Waiting for psychological therapy during the covid-19 pandemic: experiences of adults with an intellectual disability
Rebecca Baxter, Gregg H. Rawlings, Luke Yates, Nigel Beail Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Measures introduced to mitigate the spread of coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) may have contributed to an increase in waiting times for face-to-face psychological treatments. As adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) are more likely to encounter barriers when accessing remote therapies, it is important they receive appropriate support while waiting. To understand what care is needed, this service evaluation [aimed to] explored the experiences of service users with I...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - June 13, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Rebecca Baxter Gregg H. Rawlings Luke Yates Nigel Beail Source Type: research

The effectiveness of positive behaviour support in reducing challenging behaviour and increasing quality of life for individuals with intellectual disability
Katherine Dewey, Sean Evans, Sarah Horsley, Ellis Baker Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Intensive support teams (ISTs) are often poorly understood, despite reports of their effectiveness in managing behaviour that challenges for individuals with an intellectual disability. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of ISTs through evaluating one IST’s process and their use of positive behaviour support (PBS) as an intervention.Participants were obtained from the ISTs discharge database, and pre- and post-intervention data from these participa...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - June 13, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Katherine Dewey Sean Evans Sarah Horsley Ellis Baker Source Type: research

Evaluating the use of videoconferencing for handover and MDT meetings within an intensive support team
This study aims to evaluate the use of videoconferencing when conducting multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and handover meetings within an NHS Adult Learning Disabilities Intensive Support Team (IST). The IST have been conducting MDT and handover meetings “virtually” since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, in line with government guidance. It is pertinent to evaluate the effectiveness of using videoconferencing, as the move to flexible, remote working is detailed within the NHS Long Term Plan.Participants were members of the IST. A mixed methods approach using an online questionnaire collected participant...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - May 19, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Elizabeth Megan Mehmet Jason Lines Source Type: research

Defining the characteristics of an effective psychological therapist for people with intellectual disability and mental health problems: a Q-sort study
This study aims to explore whether clusters of clinical psychologists (CPs) could be differentiated with regards to beliefs as to what defines an effective therapist for adults with ID experiencing psychological distress and seeking treatment.Four interviews with CPs and an associated thematic analysis created the 49-item Q-set. These items were then sorted into a forced quasi-normal distribution by N = 27 CPs via an online Q-sorting task.Three participant clusters were identified in the principal components analysis that accounted for 49% of the variance. These clusters were labelled the creative collaborator, the reflect...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - May 15, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Charlotte Clarke Nigel Beail Stephen Kellett Source Type: research

Attachment, psychological health and interpersonal functioning: a comparison of clinical and non-clinical groups of people with intellectual disability
Lucy Bateman, Andrea Flood, Deanna Jayne Gallichan, Leonardo De Pascalis Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Insecure and unresolved attachments have been linked to poorer psychological health and interpersonal functioning for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs), but research in this area is limited, especially for adults. Studies using the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP) have been restricted to clinical samples, where insecure and unresolved attachments are typically more prevalent. The purpose of this study is to compare clinical and non-clinic...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - May 15, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Lucy Bateman Andrea Flood Deanna Jayne Gallichan Leonardo De Pascalis Source Type: research

Developing an outcome measure for an adult intellectual disabilities intensive support team – a practice paper
Jason Lines, Kiran Krishnadas Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to outline the initial pilot use of the client complexity matrix (CCM), an outcome measure developed for an NHS Adult Intellectual Disabilities Intensive Support Team (IST) in the West Midlands of England.A mixed method approach was used to report the results and evaluate the use of the CCM within this IST. The CCM was trialled for six months between January 2022 and June 2022. CCM scores pre and post IST intervention were analysed via t-test, and qualitative feedback from cl...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - May 11, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Jason Lines Kiran Krishnadas Source Type: research

Dementia education and training for caregivers supporting older people with intellectual disability: a scoping review of the literature
Daniel James Acton, Sujeet Jaydeokar, Steven Jones Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Education and training is vital in improving age-related care provisions. However, a lack of awareness and understanding of dementia could be a factor in meeting the age-related needs of people. This paper aims to examine the impact dementia education has on caregivers’ confidence to provide person-centred care for people with intellectual disability and identifies additional training needs.A systematic scoping review was completed using preferred reporting items for s...
Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - May 11, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Daniel James Acton Sujeet Jaydeokar Steven Jones Source Type: research