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

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hurst ◽  
Jay Nadarajah ◽  
Stuart Cumella
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Dual Diagnosis ◽  
Considerable Evidence

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.

Issues in the Management of Clients with the Dual Diagnosis of Learning Disability and Mental Illness

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
C. Barlow
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Dual Diagnosis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Health And Social Care

The dual diagnosis of learning disability and mental illness represents a significant challenge to health and social care practitioners and their existing practices. Currently this group has its service delivery undermined by inter-agency wrangling over responsibility for management and resource allocation. The key to resolving these problems lies in effective multi-agency collaboration. This paper examines the taxing problems of assessment, planning and intervention in this arena. It will offer examples of good practice from the Area Child Protection Committee model.

scholarly journals An Irish perspective on patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 522-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hillery ◽  
David Tomkin ◽  
Adam McAuley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Dual Diagnosis ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Consent To Treatment ◽  
Health Trust

Health care professionals in Ireland are concerned about the effect of L v. Bournewood Community and Mental Health Trust ex parte L (1998). Despite Ireland's distinct legal system and different service provision, this case has highlighted existing concerns about the treatment of patients with a dual diagnosis of learning disability and mental illness.

Psychiatry and Learning Disability

1994 ◽  
Vol 164 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew H. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
General Psychiatry ◽  
The University

My involvement with the psychiatry of learning disability began in 1968 when Professor Batchelor, then Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Dundee, suggested that mental illness in people with learning disability was a clinically interesting and under-researched topic which merited further investigation. At that time, mental illness was not usually considered even a part of the medical specialty of learning disability – or at least, not in Scotland. People in mental handicap hospitals who developed signs of mental illness were normally passed on to colleagues in general psychiatry who were considered to have the investigative and treatment expertise. If admission to in-patient care was considered necessary, it was usually to the local general psychiatry service.

Unfitness to Plead in England and Wales

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudi Fortson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Developmental Disorder ◽  
Criminal Offence ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Criminal Jurisdiction ◽  
Communication Impairment ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Commission

This chapter examines the legal and practical issues encountered by practitioners when dealing with unfitness to plead litigation. As the Law Commission for England and Wales has pointed out, defendants charged with a criminal offence may be unfit to plead or to stand trial for a variety of reasons, including difficulties resulting from mental illness, learning disability, developmental disorder, or communication impairment. Two issues are considered: (i) how might those defendants who are unfit be accurately identified; and (ii) what steps should be taken by legal practitioners and by the courts of criminal jurisdiction to cater for the interests of vulnerable defendants, victims, and society, and to maintain the integrity of the legal process as one that is fair and just? The chapter evaluates the reform proposals of the English Law Commission and assesses how the law could be improved for all those who are involved in dealing with the unfit to plead.

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