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Psychosocial interventions for people with intellectual disabilities and mental ill-health.

Dagnan D

Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust, Distington, UK. dave.dagnan@cumbria.nhs.uk

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To summarize recent research on psychosocial interventions for people with intellectual disabilities and mental ill-health. RECENT FINDINGS: Psychosocial interventions for people with intellectual disabilities and mental ill-health are poorly developed. Recent research has focused upon individual therapeutic interventions and the evaluation of structures for the delivery of services to people with intellectual disabilities and mental ill-health. There is little research that has examined psychosocial interventions with carers or families, and the impact of housing, leisure and employment for this group of people. SUMMARY: As people with intellectual disabilities are increasingly recognized as having severe and enduring mental ill-health, the development of an evidence base for psychosocial intervention is of considerable importance.

Published 31 August 2007 in Curr Opin Psychiatry, 20(5): 456-60.
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