Intellectual Disabilities and Personality Disorder

This book aims to give staff a framework for understanding and addressing the problems that arise when an individual has both learning disabilities and personality disorder. After reading this book, staff will have a good understanding of what personality disorder is, how to recognise it and some of the possible causes. They will learn how personality disorder is shaped by an individual's intellectual disability and the types of difficulties this will lead to. They will have explored a range of practical approaches to these difficulties that should help them work more effectively with this client group both individually and as a team.