scholarly journals Crime and victimization among people with intellectual disability with and without comorbid mental illness

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart D. M. Thomas ◽  
Margaret Nixon ◽  
James R. P. Ogloff ◽  
Michael Daffern
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Comorbid Mental Illness

Idiocy and the Conceptual Economy of Madness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray K. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Binary Separation ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Binary Relationship ◽  
Separate Branch ◽  
William Cullen

The binary relationship between ‘intellectual disability’ and ‘mental illness’ is widely regarded as self-evident and long-established. This chapter demonstrates that the historical, and continuing, relationship between intellectual disability and psychiatry is, in fact, ambiguous and inconsistent. Beginning with the nosology of William Cullen in the latter part of the seventeenth century, the chapter explores the dispersal of madness across all the branches of disease and illness. The advent of alienism and Pinel’s nosology of madness, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, produced much flatter conceptual structures, in which idiocy was one of the various forms of madness. As psychiatry developed, the position of idiocy shifted. Maudsley located it in a separate branch, though still not separated in a binary manner from insanity. Lastly, the nosology of the neurologist Spitzka became more nuanced and layered, though still without a binary separation of idiocy. The chapter takes the view that the lack of any consistent underlying paradigm in psychiatry will continue to make the presence and position of intellectual disability impossible to fix. Psychoanalytic and neo-Jasperian psychiatry thoroughly exclude it as an object of investigation.

scholarly journals FUTURE PLANNING AMONG OLDER CAREGIVERS OF FAMILY MEMBERS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY OR MENTAL ILLNESS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S287-S287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Wang ◽  
Yangdi Han
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Future Planning ◽  
Ideal Situation ◽  
Older Caregivers ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract Objectives: This study aims to examine future planning among older caregivers for family members with intellectual disability or mental illness, focusing on preferences, predictors and barriers. Method: Data were drawn from 260 caregivers (aged 50 or older) to a family member with intellectual disability or mental illness in Shanghai, China. Caregivers rated six types of future care arrangement under three circumstances: (1) the ideal situation, (2) unable to provide care due to age-related illnesses, and (3) caregivers are deceased. Socio-demographic factors associated with future planning were examined using multinomial logistic regression. Caregivers also rated twelve barriers to future planning. Results: Government-subsidized care facility is the most preferable care arrangement across the three circumstances. While continuing family care was still preferred if caregivers were to become sick or deceased, it was a less preferred option in the ideal situation. Common barriers were the cost of institutional care and the inadequate skills of the staff. Regarding the predictors of future planning, the older the caregivers were, the less likely they had no future plans. Caregivers were more likely to prefer family care over institutional care if their family members had mild impairment. Caregivers of a family member with mental illness were more likely to have no future planning than caregivers of a family member with intellectual disability. Conclusion: This study identified the needs of older caregivers for future planning specific to different circumstances. It also identified demographic profiles of future planning and the caregiver population at risk of no future planning.

The maelstrom of punishment, mental illness, intellectual disability and cognitive impairment

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Segrave ◽  
Claire Spivakovsky ◽  
Anna Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Intellectual Disability
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