Caregivers Blog Posts

• Support worker attitudes a key influencer of outcomes for people with learning disabilities, but new scales needed to measure these

  19 Jan 2015

  • Louise Phillips

  
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programmes reduced stress in mothers of children with disabilities in community sample RCT

  12 Jan 2015

  • Kate van Dooren

  
• Parenting skills support programme effective for some parents, but must be tailored to individual circumstances

  17 Nov 2014

  • Kate van Dooren

  
• Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths WeLD Nurses tweet chat with authors and the LD Elf

  10 Nov 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Equipping family carers with better information about in-patient assessment and treatment for people with learning disabilities

  07 Nov 2014

  • Alison Giraud-Saunders

  
• Driving Up Quality Code – One Year On and First Reports of Progress Published

  06 Oct 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Challenges in respecting autonomy in end-of-life care of people with learning disabilities

  23 Jun 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Established framework for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can be used with some amendments for people with learning disabilities

  14 Oct 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• BMA launches Mental Capacity Act toolkit for doctors, to raise awareness and support decision making

  04 Oct 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Social Workers get new practice guidance on working with people with learning disabilities with mental health needs

  30 Sep 2013

  • John Northfield