What works for people with learning disabilities who experience mental distress

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What works for people with learning
disabilities who experience mental distress?

• Ann Davis
• JSWEC Conference 2009
• Hertfordshire University
• July 8th
• Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental
  Health
• The University of Birmingham, UK

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• Teaching and Learning projects
• The CEIMH Teaching and Learning Development
  Fund has supported over 70 innovations in
  interdisciplinary mental health teaching and
  learning which promote service user and carer
  involvement. These have spanned a range of
  activities.

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The mental health and learning disability project

• Aimed to create a training programme which
• would enhance the knowledge and skills of
• the learning disability and mental health
• workforce in relation to people with learning
• disabilities who have mental ill health.

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The Process

• Established a project team of people who were
  experts through experience, CEIMH staff and
  psychologists
• Made sure that the whole team was involved at
  every step of the process
• Used the expert consultants and a CEIMH staff
  member for the phase that involved asking people
  with learning disabilities about what staff
  needed to know

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The Focus Group

• 1. The Dudley psychology service provided us
  with names of people who had experience of using
  learning disability and mental health services.
• We sent each person a letter telling them about
  ourselves, inviting them to join the focus group
  we were running and explaining what would be
  involved.
• 3. We then visited each person to introduce
  ourselves, get to know them, talk about the group
  and answer any questions they had about joining
  the group.

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• Some people said they would like to come to the
  group and we asked these people to sign a form to
  show they had understood what was involved.
• We used the customer care room with kitchen at
  the Merry Hill Centre for the group.
• 6. We put pictures of some of the services and
  staff around the room
• 7. We greeted people on arrival with a drink and
  something to eat and caught up with their news

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• We then sat round the table and began to work
  together. We moved through each service and asked
  people WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOOD ABOUT THIS
  SERVICE?
• WHAT DONT YOU LIKE ABOUT THIS SERVICE?
• HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THIS SERVICE TO CHANGE?
• 9. After people had given us their views and the
  reasons for them we asked them to summarise what
  they thought overall about each service by
  holding up a piece of paper with a
• ? if their experience had been POSITIVE, and a
• ? if their experience had been NEGATIVE.
• 10. The group lasted for an hour and a quarter
  and at the end we thanked people for working so
  hard and paid them for their time.

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Results

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• For more information about the work ofThe
  Centre of Excellence in InterdisciplinaryMental
  Health, please visit our website
  atwww.ceimh.bham.ac.uk
• Or contactAnn Davisa.davis_at_bham.ac.uk