Identifying, Understanding and Supporting Diverse Autistic Identities
A professionals' guide to understanding and better identifying diverse autistic presentations, with chapters covering autistic diagnosis in BAME communities, misdiagnosis and the criminal justice system, the issue of misidentifying fabricated or induced illness, and the controversial and overlapping diagnoses of PDA, ODD, ASPD and BPD.
In her influential and successful book The Anger Box, expert practitioner Phoebe Caldwell shifted attention away from the surface symptoms of autism and towards understanding sensory experiences and alleviating the distress associated with them.
An in-depth practical guide for mental health practitioners working across diverse theoretical orientations to provide mental health services tailored to the needs of refugees. Chapters outline research-supported psychological interventions that can be used in a culturally sensitive manner.
This new edition focuses on evidence-based practice in helping professionals and practitioners to provide high-quality personalised care for children and young people with intellectual disabilities who have mental health needs. The contents provide additional context covering prevalence, legal and cultural and contemporary mental health issues.
Sexual Health Education Programme Manual for Groups and Individuals with
Let's Talk About Sex is a sexual health education programme manual for individuals and groups with intellectual disabilities. The manual provides a contemporary, well-structured programme covering physical and emotional aspects of sexual health, gender identity, consent, assertiveness, dignity and respect, and sexual relationships.
A Comprehensive Assessment for Dementia in People with Down Syndrome and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition)
Diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease and AD dementia in people with Down's Syndrome is a major challenge. The comprehensive Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older People with DS and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) has been validated for diagnosing prodromal AD and AD dementia.
Contemporary and Critical Approaches to Clinical and Organisational Prac
Presents a compelling case for re-thinking clinical services in more positive and holistic ways for people diagnosed with 'personality disorders' - individuals whose high levels of emotional distress can cause them to display behaviours that may be perceived as complex, challenging and detrimental to the therapeutic relationship.
disabilities in a way that ensures lasting emotional damage ...and maybe what to do about it
Diagnosis of learning disabilities or autism can happen at any point in an individual's life. While this should mean freedom to move forward with information to access all that's needed to live a fulfilling and rewarding life, the huge obstacles that exist in reality can make a diagnosis a cause for dismay.
A guide for professionals, support staff and families
A unique training and self-study resource introducing the vital topic of mental health and mental well-being to a wide range of staff supporting adults with intellectual disabilities.
Understanding Early Trauma, Mind Programming and Installed Dissociative Identity Disorder
Joining expert knowledge about trauma, dissociation & ritual abuse from both lived experience & the perspective of a therapist, this book is designed to help people living with a dissociative disorder as well as carers supporting them & helping to aid their recovery.
A Comprehensive Assessment for Dementia in People with Down Syndrome and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition)
Diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease and AD dementia in people with Down's Syndrome is a major challenge. The comprehensive Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older People with DS and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) has been validated for diagnosing prodromal AD and AD dementia.
A Comprehensive Assessment for Dementia in People with Down Syndrome and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition)
Diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease and AD dementia in people with Down's Syndrome is a major challenge. The comprehensive Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older People with DS and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) has been validated for diagnosing prodromal AD and AD dementia.
How Caring Relationships Can Support Individuals with Enduring Distress
Some individuals with intellectual disabilities experience pervasive patterns of feeling and thinking that affect the way in which they relate to others and understand themselves - sometimes so overwhelmingly that they find it difficult to navigate the daily challenges of life.
Collected in a single volume for the first time, the writings in this novel anthology represent more than four decades of perspectives from the American Psychiatric Associations Solomon Carter Fuller Award lectures, named for the first Black psychiatrist in the United States.
A Complete Resource for Developing Person-Centred Skills and Approaches
The Dementia Care Training Library offers distinctive, contemporary and expandable training materials on dementia specific topics relating to the learning needs of staff in care environments. The Starter Pack provides the library's binder, along with core content on the lived experience of dementia and dealing with challenging behaviour.
A comprehensive guide from personal and professional perspectives
This book offers a comprehensive, contemporary and practical guide to understanding and helping people with eating difficulties to live and thrive in their communities. Written by people with eating disorders, their families and leading researchers, clinicians and therapists, it explores healthcare and support services.
Written by a highly experienced CQC inspector, this book explores the qualities and practices that lead to 'Outstanding' ratings in residential care and provides a wealth of resources for assessing and managing any service for continuous improvement.
Suitable for individual use and formal training courses, this unique self-development workbook guides care staff through a process of evaluating strengths and weaknesses, identifying barriers to good care, and becoming more reflective practitioners.
Written by a highly experienced senior CQC Inspector, Towards Outstanding offers an inside look at the qualities and approaches that lead to 'Outstanding' ratings in health and social care - and shows how any service provider can set out to do the same
A Staff Training Resource for Health and Social Care
Written by a highly experienced CQC inspector, this training pack presents sessions designed to engage trainees with the idea that exceptional care is both consistent and person-centred, and sustainable improvement only comes from within over time.
A mental health assessment of children and adolescents across the full developmental spectrum
The Moss-PAS (ChA), formerly ChA-PAS Interview, is for the mental health assessment of children and adolescents across the full developmental spectrum, including intellectual disability. It provides a semi-structured interview format in which the young person may contribute to whatever degree they are able.
A Questionnaire to Identify Potential Mental Health Problems in People wsabilities - Pack of 20
A 25-item questionnaire, written in clear everyday language, for use primarily by care staff and families who are best placed to notice small or gradual changes in the behaviour of the people they support.
The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training.
A Handbook for Health and Social Care Professionals, Service Users and C
A ground-breaking handbook exploring the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education, and allied support services.
A Trauma-informed Approach to Caring for People with a Personality Disor
This training manual introduces trauma informed approaches to caring for people who have both a personality disorder and an intellectual disability. The CaPDID training is a short course designed for staff without any specific expertise in mental health or psychotherapy, such as care home staff, learning disability nurses or managers.
A Wide-Spectrum Mental Health Assessment for Adults Who Have Limited Language or Reduced Cognitive Development
Formerly known as 'Mini PAS-ADD', Moss-PAS (ID) is a wide-spectrum mental health assessment for adults with limited language or reduced cognitive development, and is fully compliant with ICD-11 and DSM-5.
The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training.