The Use of Mindfulness with People with Intellectual Disabilities: a Systematic Review and Narrative Analysis

Systematic Reviews of the Health or Health care of People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review to Identify Gaps in the Evidence Base

“…); psychologically based anger management for adults living in the community (Borsay ); mindfulness training for people with intellectual disability or family/paid carers (Chapman et al . ); anger management in adults (Hamelin et al . ); mindfulness for behavioural problems (Harper et al .…”

Experiences of women with learning disabilities undergoing dialectical behaviour therapy in a secure service

“…Positive outcomes have been noted from studies on the implementation of DBT with adults with learning disabilities, including reductions in aggression and risk‐taking behaviour (Brown, Brown, & Dibiasio, ; Chapman et al., ). Such outcomes, coupled with the increasing use of DBT within forensic settings (Evershed et al., ; Warren et al., ), have led to DBT interventions being introduced for people with learning disabilities in secure forensic services.…”

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy [DBT] with People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review and Narrative Analysis

“…More recent reviews of specific interventions have concluded that there is some evidence to support the use of psychodynamic therapies (James & Stacey ), mindfulness‐based interventions (Chapman et al . ; Hwang & Kearney ) and CBT (Nicoll et al . ; Jennings & Hewitt ) with people with intellectual and development disabilities.…”

“…Brown et al (2011) conducted a review of psychological therapies available to people with intellectual and development disabilities and concluded that psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), counselling and systemic family therapy can be adapted to be accessible for people with intellectual and development disabilities with positive outcomes reported, but many of the studies reviewed were small scale and of low methodological quality. More recent reviews of specific interventions have concluded that there is some evidence to support the use of psychodynamic therapies (James & Stacey 2013), mindfulness-based interventions (Chapman et al 2013;Hwang & Kearney 2013) and CBT (Nicoll et al 2013;Jennings & Hewitt 2015) with people with intellectual and development disabilities. A recent meta-analysis of psychological therapies for people with intellectual and development disabilities by Vereenooghe & Langdon (2013) concluded that CBT was an effective treatment for anger and depression and that when CBT was excluded, adults with intellectual and development disabilities still benefited from psychological therapies, but there was insufficient evidence regarding the efficacy of psychological therapies for children and young people with intellectual and development disabilities.…”