Ian Hamilton explores two recent articles that consider the shocking sex and gender inequities in addiction research.
[read the full story...]Sex matters: why have females been excluded from addiction research?
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Let’s talk about sex! Sexual consent for people with learning disabilities
Nick Burton presents a recent literature review about the right to legal capacity to consent to sex for people with learning disabilities. He highlights a number of important questions that staff need to consider so that they can support people with learning disabilities to have healthy sexual relationships.
[read the full story...]Psychotherapy for people with learning disabilities: the views and experiences of IAPT practitioners
Reed Cappleman critiques a recent study of IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Treatments) practitioners’ experiences of providing therapy to people with intellectual disabilities.
[read the full story...]Tackling mental-health-related stigma: a narrative review of anti-stigma interventions
Suzanne Dash considers the findings of a recent narrative review in The Lancet, which brought together the evidence for effective interventions to reduce mental-health-related stigma and discrimination.
[read the full story...]Stigma increases psychological distress in people with intellectual disabilities
David Steele reports on a recent cross-sectional study, which found that stigma was linked with increased psychological distress and poorer quality of life in people with intellectual disabilities.
[read the full story...]How can we reduce mental health stigma and discrimination?
David Steele summarises a recent systematic review that found small to medium long-term effects from anti-stigma interventions with very little research coming from low income countries.
[read the full story...]Employment opportunities for all? Social enterprises and mental health
Martin Webber considers a Canadian study about social enterprises and employment opportunities for people with mental health problems such as psychosis.
[read the full story...]‘Beat the cheat’: disability welfare benefits and newspaper reporting
Gerry Bennison offers food for thought in his blog on research into how disability welfare has been characterised in popular UK tabloid articles.
[read the full story...]Shirkers and scroungers: Is there a link between mental health discrimination and welfare reform?
In her first Social Care Elf blog, Sarah Carr looks at an evaluation of the Time to Change anti-stigma campaign and discovers some new findings on discrimination against those living with mental health problems.
[read the full story...]NICE multimorbidity guidance almost excluded people with learning disabilities
The NICE scoping guidelines on multimorbidity now thankfully include people with learning disabilities. However, the original scoping draft specifically excluded them, despite NHS England and the Department of Health commenting on the first draft.
Here, Pauline Heslop, one of the authors of the Confidential Inquiry report and a key campaigner to get people with learning disabilities included in the scope, talks about some the issues this raises.
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