Community services for LD Flashcards
(14 cards)
Normalisation
social principle that aims to enable the intellectually disabled to experience ‘normal’ patterns of everyday life including living in their own homes, having a job and taking part in ‘normal’ day to day activities
-Nirje and Wolfensberger
Social role valorisation
- including and creating opportunities for LD people to take on valued social roles
- helps society to value people with LD
Valuing people 2007
4 principles
- rights
- independence
- choice
- inclusion
Deinstitutionalisation
- release of individuals from institutional care such as psychiatric hospital to care in the community
- occurred in 1980s
Prevalence of LD among offenders
- prevalence is 1-10% in the UK
- 30% of offenders have a learning difficulty
- 7% have an IQ below 70, 25% have an IQ below 80
Prevalence of mental health problems in patients with LD
- 30-50%
- higher rates of psychiatric disorder in severe LD
- 32% more likely to have an mental health problem than the general population
Rate of schizophrenia in LD
3%
Rate of BPAD in LD
1.5%
Rate of depression in LD
4%
Rate of agoraphobia in LD
1.5%
Rate of OCD in LD
2.5%
Rate of autism in LD
7%
Rate of severe problem behaviour in LD
10-15%
Psychiatric Assessment schedule for adults with developmental disabilities (PAS-ADD)
-allows diagnosis under ICD-10