Learning Disability - Mental Health

On-Line Learning

• Mind (www.mind.org.uk)

   

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Useful websites

Learning Materials

• Mental Health in Learning Disabilities: a reader by Gealdine Holt, Steve Hardy and Nick Bouras. Pavilion
  

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Provides up to date information on mental health problems in people with learning disabilities.

Training Event

Title: Learning Disability & Mental Health (Providers)

This course is currently not running, but if there is sufficient demand, it may be commissioned.

To register your interest, please add your name on the waiting list using MyView (non-scheduled request) or send an e-mail to Sarah Clark.

Target Group: People who work with or care for people with learning disabilities. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent & voluntary sector.

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

It has been identified that there is a need to promote good mental health across learning disability services and encourage people to understand that a person with a disability can get ill like anyone else. This is particularly true in relation to mental ill health.

Mental ill health effects approx 75% of people who have a learning disability at some point in their lives, for some of these people it can be difficult to communicate how they are feeling and this can create a barrier to support.

This course will equip staff with knowledge of mental ill health in a learning disability setting.

Identify common conditions associated with learning disabilities and also some common mental health conditions.

The course will look at risk factors and how people with some conditions such as Downs Syndrome are at greater risk of developing mental ill health.

Participants will understand cultural differences and how society values people who have a learning disability and/ of mental ill health.

Participants will be able to explain the difference between the social model and medical model of disability.

Understand what factors can predispose someone to mental ill health, the cycle of deprivation and vulnerability factors.

Participants will be given tools to help them understand their role and take appropriate action.

Introduction to tools to help form a base line and monitor changes.

Knowledge to promote good mental health using key areas.

Knowledge of consent issues.

Understanding Barriers to accessing treatment or support.

Training Event

Title: Learning Disability & Mental Health (Care Management)

This course is currently not running, but if there is sufficient demand, it may be commissioned.

To register your interest, please add your name on the waiting list using MyView (non-scheduled request) or send an e-mail to Zara Mangan. 

Target Group: People who work with or care for people with learning disabilities. Social Workers, Managers, Deputy Managers, Team Managers and staff members who manage services for people with learning disabilities, as well as commissioning staff would benefit more from this event. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent & voluntary sector.

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The first level course ‘Mental Health and Learning Disabilities’ was designed as an introduction to the mental Health / Learning Disability interface.  It is largely practical based for staff with day to day care of service users with this dual diagnosis. This course has a more theoretical content and is aimed more at commissioners of services and managers of provider services.  It will also be very suitable for social workers undertaking their post-qualifying social work studies.

A more in depth exploration of mental disorders.
Critically examine the impact of social models of disability and the medical model of disability on person’s with a dual diagnosis.
Critically examine how inequality disproportionately impacts upon a person with a learning disability and a mental health need.
Identification of personal and structural barriers to effective service delivery for this group.
Exploration of how the promotion of ‘personalisation’ can aid meeting the needs of people with a learning disability and mental health.
Develop individual strategies to promote more effective care of persons with a learning disability and mental health problems.

Lead Officers:                                    

Sarah Clark (Providers)

Tel. No: 0116 2211721 (39 1721)

E-Mail: Sarah.Clark@leicester.gov.uk 

Zara Mangan (Care Management)      

Tel. No: 0116 2211700 (39 1700)

E-Mail: Zara.Mangan@leicester.gov.uk