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Analysis On Community Services For People With Intellectual Disabilities And Mental Health Problems

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The article is write by Colin Hemmings Alaa Al-Sheikh, (2013),"Expert opinions on community services for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems", Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. 7 Iss 3 pp. 169 – 174. The purpose of this article is there has been limited evidence on which to base services in the community for people who have intellectual disabilities and coexisting mental health problems. Recent research involving service users, carers and professionals has identified a number of key service components that community services should provide. More detail is needed to explore how best these components could be implemented and delivered. This paper aims to discuss these issues. This article …show more content…

Accoding to the Colin Hemmings Alaa Al-Sheikh, (2013),"Expert opinions on community services for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems", state that the methodology “a total of 14 multidisciplinary professionals from specialist intellectual disabilities services in the UK were interviewed about their opinions on four key areas of community service provision. These included the review and monitoring of service users, their access to social, leisure and occupational activities, the support, advice and training around mental health for a person’s family or carers and ‘‘out of hours’’ and crisis responses. The interview data was used for coding using the NVivo 7 software package and then analyzed using thematic analysis’’. The qualitative of methodology is this article is the author was used interview the people as a method to find the data. Qualitative is the process is less linear one of the steps are more closely interlinked, while some are omitted or located at a different stage of the process. In my opinion, interview is the best method to get the true information. For example in this article the author state interviewees were requested to specifically focus on services in the community for certain types of service users with intellectual disabilities those over 18 and with coexisting severe mental health problems. Besides, the …show more content…

There is a great need for evaluation studies of these and innovative services (Hemmings, 2008). However, it is crucial that this research will be fully informed in order to increase its validity. To our knowledge there has not been previously any similar study eliciting expert opinion via semi-structured interviews regarding services in the community for people with intellectual disabilities and coexisting mental health problems. Participants in this study were multidisciplinary and recruited nationally. Overall there was much consistency across their responses. The themes emerging from content analysis overlapped but were evidenced independently by a

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