Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Fully revised, this new edition reviews the most up-to-date and clinically relevant information on the mental health and behavioural problems of people with intellectual, developmental and learning disabilities, also previously known as mental retardation.

Providing the latest evidence base from the literature and embracing clinical experience, it covers the essential facts and concepts relating to coexisting medical and psychiatric disorders, with new and updated chapters on mental health and epilepsy, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, personality disorders, and mental health problems in people with autism and related disorders. The disorder-based chapters are complemented by chapters on carer and family perspectives, possible future developments and contributions highlighting the principles of assessment, management and services from global and historical perspectives.

This is essential hands-on practical advice for psychiatrists, psychologists and all other mental health professionals including nurses, therapists, social workers, managers, service providers and commissioners.

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Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Part I. Foundations:

1. Historical and international perspectives of services Nick Bouras
2. Classification and diagnosis Marco Bertelli, Luis Salvador-Carulla and Jim Harris
3. The epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in adults with intellectual disabilities Jason Buckles
4. Assessment instruments and rating scales Heidi Hermans

Part II. Mental Disorders:

5. Dementias Jennifer Torr
6. Schizophrenia spectrum disorders Rory Sheehan, Lucy Fodor-Wynne and Angela Hassiotis
7. Mood disorders Anna Palucka, Pushpal Desarkar and Yona Lunsky
8. Anxiety disorders Jane McCarthy and Eddie Chaplin
9. Stress, traumatic and bereavement reactions Philip Dodd and Finoulla Kelly
10. Personality disorders William Lindsay and Regi Alexander
11. Mental illness with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders Trine Bakken, Sissel Helvershou, Siv Helene Høidal and Harald Martinsen
12. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Elizabeth Evans and Julian Trollor

Part III. Interventions:

13. Psychopharmacology Steven Ruedrich
14. Psychodynamic psychotherapy Nigel Beail
15. Cognitive behavioural therapy Dave Dagnan
16. Behavioural approaches Betsy Benson

Part IV. Special Topics:

17. Psychopathology of children with intellectual disabilities (ID) Bruce Tonge
18. Behavioural phenotypes/genetic syndromes Robert Hodapp, Nathan Dankner and Elizabeth Dykens
19. Offending behaviour John Taylor
20. Problem behaviours and the interface with psychiatric disorders Sally-Anne Cooper
21. The interface between medical and psychiatric disorders Jessica Hellings and Seema Jain
22. Epilepsy Frank Besag

Part V. Services:

23. Specialized and mainstream mental health services Johanna Lake, Carly McMorris and Yona Lunsky
24. Service users' and carers' experiences of mental health services Katrina Scior
25. Carer and family perspectives Gemma Unwin, John Rose and Shoumitro Deb

Part VI. Reflections:

26. Reflections Colin Hemmings

Index.