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Adolescents with a learning disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Brooks  and
N. Bouras
David Brooks
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, Section of Learning Disabilities, United Medical and Dental Schools, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT
N. Bouras
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, Section of Learning Disabilities, United Medical and Dental Schools, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT
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Abstract

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The adolescents (n=57, age 13–19 years) attending the special schools for moderate and severe learning disabilities in a South East London health district and their families were assessed. The mothers of adolescents with severe learning disabilities in the transitional stage to adult services and development reported greater behaviour problems in their offspring, greater stress, more negative psycho-social family effects and more negative attitudes. Implications of the results for interventions, needs assessment and future research in family and adolescent functioning and the origins of psychiatric morbidity in young people with learning disabilities were discussed.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 10 , October 1994 , pp. 606 - 608
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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