Advances in Dual Diagnosis: Volume 12 Issue 1/2

FASD: the current situation in the UK

Raja Mukherjee

Substance use, comorbid psychiatric disorders and suicide attempts in adult FASD patients

Henrike Dirks, Lisa Francke, Verena Würz, Constance Kretschmann, Sonja Dehghan-Sanij, Norbert Scherbaum

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are a group of developmental disabilities related to prenatal alcohol exposure. FASD is a life-long lasting condition with various…

Responding to FASD: what social and community service professionals do in the absence of diagnostic services and practice standards

Kerryn Bagley

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the experiences and practices of social and community service professionals working with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) or…

Exploring the experiences of birth mothers whose children have been diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a qualitative study

Robyn Thomas, Raja Mukherjee

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is an umbrella term for a range of conditions that may occur in an individual whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. There has been…

Stigma as a dominant discourse in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Peter Choate, Dorothy Badry

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a scoping review of the literature to explore the many ways stigma affects people with FASD and to highlight the disciplines and places…

Finding answers, improving outcomes: a case study of the Canada fetal alcohol spectrum disorder research network

Dorothy Badry, Kelly D. Coons-Harding, Jocelynn Cook, Alan Bocking

The purpose of this paper is to present a profile of the Canada fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (CanFASD) research network which is descriptive in nature and profiles the work of…

Behaviour and adaptive functioning in children and young people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a UK study

Mari Sakano, Raja Mukherjee, Jeremy Turk

The purpose of this paper is to explore the profiles of behaviours and adaptive functioning in the UK children and young people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

An evidence-based training and support course for caregivers of children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in New Zealand

Anita Gibbs

The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of an evidence-based training and support course for caregivers of children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in…

A therapeutic approach to learning through creative storytelling

Jessica I. Rutherford

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of a Learning Programme designed around the animation film-making process, contextualising abstract concepts to address the…

The UK and Ireland incidence of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS): a new study

Alexandra Lu, Kathryn Johnson