“Because I’ve Got a Learning Disability, They Don’t Take Me Seriously:” Violence, Wellbeing, and Devaluing People With Learning Disabilities

Subjective Wellbeing and Interpersonal Problems in the Mothers of Students With Learning Disabilities

Objectives: The challenges of caring for students with learning disabilities expose their mothers to mental health problems; however, less attention has been paid to treatment interventions for them. The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group training on subjective wellbeing and interpersonal relationships in the mothers of students with lea...

Adapting e-learning and learning services for people with disabilities

Providing learning materials and support services that are adapted to the needs of individuals has the potential to enable learners to obtain maximal benefit from university level studies. This paper describes EU4ALL project which has been exploring how to present customized learning materials and services for people with disabilities. A number of the technical components of the EU4ALL framewor...

Working with people with learning disabilities.

Psychopharmacology and people with learning disability

originally developed to treat not the mentally handicapped but the mentally ill; those, for example, with schizophrenia, paranoia and other specific conditions, but now the far wider use of these drugs has been challenged because there is evidence that they can produce serious side-effects in addition to the distress already suffered. Future changes in the use of antipsychotic drugs in the UK m...

Caring for people with learning disabilities.

Nurses are ideally placed to provide an individualised service to people with learning disabilities living at home or in residential accommodation. Acting as key change agents, nurses can encourage clients to live as independently as possible in their own communities and can improve the quality of life offered to individuals and their families. This unit is relevant to UKCC PREP categories of C...