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The case for guided self-help for people with intellectual disabilities
The case for guided self-help for people with intellectual disabilities
- Source :
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities. 11:126-130
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Emerald, 2017.
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Abstract
- PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine guided self-help (GSH), and some of the barriers as to why it is not routinely available for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs).Design/methodology/approachThis paper offers an overview of GSH and the potential benefits of it as an intervention for people with ID with mild depression and/or anxiety.FindingsThe current literature reports the successful use and effectiveness of GSH in the general population. However, despite this there is little evidence that it is being used in practice for people with ID.Originality/valueThis paper offers an overview of GSH and advocates for its increasing use for people with ID to help bring about equality in mental healthcare.
- Subjects :
- education.field_of_study
Psychotherapist
media_common.quotation_subject
Population
medicine.disease
Mental health
030227 psychiatry
Self-help
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
0302 clinical medicine
Originality
Intervention (counseling)
Intellectual disability
medicine
Anxiety
Mental health care
030212 general & internal medicine
medicine.symptom
Psychology
education
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20441282
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........92dc178282cb3bdce84c4118078c4171
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1108/amhid-10-2016-0030