This webinar will help participants understand the relationship between intellectual disability and mental ill-health, approaches to assessing and managing mental ill-health in people with intellectual disability, and key adaptations to clinical practice that will assist in optimal care for this group.
This webinar is suitable for clinicians and other professionals working with adolescents and young people in mental health services, primary care settings and other areas of health and human services.
What will you learn from this webinar?
- The relationship between intellectual disability and mental illness in young people with intellectual disability.
- Barriers to accessing mental health supports for people with intellectual disability.
- How to adapt clinical approaches to effectively assess and manage mental health concerns in young people with intellectual disability.
- How to work with complex support systems when caring for a young person with intellectual disability and mental ill-health
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Resources for health professionals to support better appointments when working with people with intellectual disability.
A 61-minute webinar hosted by Primary Health Tasmania about Better health care for people with Intellectual disability
Presentations from guest speakers including a self-advocate, a doctor and researcher, an oral health clinician, and a parent advocate.