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This talk will draw upon a range of research and proposes that we need to develop more sophisticated bio-psycho-social models of understanding that address the complex diversity that is represented by the phrase ‘people with intellectual disabilities’. Together the different relevant disciplines in services must have the skills to undertake the different assessments that are necessary and, by acknowledging various difference perspectives, develop an agreed understanding and formulation. This formulation guides intervention that is specific to that person and to his/her problems at that time in his/her life.
Tony Holland trained in medicine at the University of London qualifying in 1973. After some years in general medicine he trained in psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London. He specialized in the field of intellectual disabilities. Since 2002 he has held the Health Foundation Chair in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. He leads the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group (www.CIDDRG.org). |
