Tizard Learning Disability Review: Volume 9 Issue 4
Practice, management, research and innovation
Table of contents
Human Rights and the Failure of Policy to Deliver: Women with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Needs
Annette LawsonHuman rights figure largely in both rhetoric and practice, and government policy seeks to value and enhance individual equality and quality of life. This paper draws on recent…
Mental Health Needs of Women with Learning Disabilities: Services can be Organised to Meet the Challenge
Dora KohenWomen with learning disabilities have many social, personal and psychological problems that stem from being neglected, as well as from being doubly disadvantaged by their gender…
Understanding our Bodies, Understanding Ourselves: The Menstrual Cycle, Mental Health and Women with Learning Disabilities
Hedy Ditchfield, Jan BurnsThe paper reviews the evidence for vulnerability in women with learning disabilities to a range of physical and mental health problems, with special emphasis on menstruation. It…
New Legislative Proposals for Women with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Problems
Eileen McNamara, Ian HallThere are several proposed changes to the law in England and Wales that will particularly affect women with learning disabilities. The Sexual Offences Act 2003, the draft Mental…
A Rights‐Based Approach to Abuse of Women with Learning Disabilities
Hilary BrownThis paper provides a brief overview of abuse and protection, with a particular focus on women with learning disabilities. Women with learning disabilities face double oppression…
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1359-5474e-ISSN:
2042-8782ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Athanasios (Thanos) Vostanis