Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2brh9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T16:46:14.031Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

In-patient care for people with a learning disability and a mental illness

The first eight years of a specialist unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Hurst ,
Jay Nadarajah  and
Stuart Cumella
John Hurst
Affiliation:
Lea Castle Hospital, Wolverley, Kidderminster DY10 3PP
Jay Nadarajah
Affiliation:
West Midlands Learning Disability Senior Registrar Rotational Scheme
Stuart Cumella*
Affiliation:
Centre for Research and Information into Mental Disability, University of Birmingham Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2QZ
*
* Correspondence.
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

People with the dual diagnosis of mental illness and mental retardation have proved difficult to resettle from hospital. Yet there is considerable evidence that, if diagnosed correctly, treatment for such patients can be effective (e.g. Matson, 1981; Welch ft Sigman, 1980). This paper describes the outcome of treatment at a specialist unit for patients with dual diagnosis.

Type
Original papers
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 29 - 31
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

References

Ballinger, B.R., Ballinger, C.B., Reid, A.H. & McQueen, E. (1991) The psychiatric symptoms, diagnoses and care needs of 100 Mentally handicapped patients. British Journal of Psychiatry. 158, 251–254.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Matson, J.L. (1981) A controlled outcome study of phobias in mentally retarded adults. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 19, 101–107.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Meadows, G., Turner, T., Campbell, L., Lewis, S.W. et al (1991) Assessing schizophrenia in adults with mental retardation. A comparative study. British Journal of Psychiatry. 158, 103–105.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pawlarcyzk, D. & Beckwith, B.E. (1987) Depressive symptoms displayed by persons with mental retardation: a review. Mental Retardation, 25, 325–330.Google Scholar
Welch, V.O. & Sigman, M. (1980) Group psychotherapy with mildly retarded, emotionally disturbed adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. 9, 209–212.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.