Expanding capacity in mental health research in intellectual disabilities

Defendants with intellectual disabilities and mental health diagnoses: faring in a mental health court.

BACKGROUND Begun in the late 1990s, mental health courts are specialty criminal courts developed to address the needs of persons with mental illness. METHODS As many persons with intellectual disabilities (IDs) may overlap in the mental health court system, we used mental health court records to examine the phenomenology and outcomes of 224 defendants with and without co-occurring IDs in the ...

Capacity Building in Global Mental Health Research

Research-generated information about mental disorders is crucial in order to establish the health needs in a given setting, to propose culturally apt and cost-effective individual and collective interventions, to investigate their implementation, and to explore the obstacles that prevent recommended strategies from being implemented. Yet the capacity to undertake such research in low- and middl...

The Mental Health of People with Intellectual Disabilities who Offend

There are a growing number of studies concerning people with intellectually disabilities (ID) who offend, however few studies systematically record prevalence of mental health problems. This article will attempt to determine the prevalence mental health problems in people with ID who offend. Search terms were entered into the CINAHL, EMBASE, Ovid MEDLINE(R) and PsycINFO databases. Studies were ...

Mental health disorders in adults with intellectual disabilities Methods of assessment and prevalence of mental health disorders and problem behavior

Mental Health Conditions and Challenging Behaviors in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Gap between Research and Care

The term culturally-informed care, unlike trauma-informed care, may be relatively new to service providers (i.e. direct caregivers, therapists, etc.) and other professionals working with people with mental health issues or persons with disabilities. However, its necessity may be dated back to the beginning of the human service field when individuals may have resided in asylums or suffered other...