Psychiatry for adults with learning disabilities

We talk to you, your family and carers to understand your current mental health issues. This helps us to understand whether you have a mental illness or disorder which needs treatment. 

This helps us to diagnose mental illness and decide what treatments are needed.

People with learning disabilities (also called intellectual disabilities) are more likely to suffer from a mental illness.

Find more information about different mental illnesses/mental disorders:

• Royal College of Psychiatrists website
• Mental and physical health conditions in people with intellectual disabilities: Comparing local and national data

When we see you, junior doctors and medical students may come with us to meet you. This helps with their training.

If you suffer from a mental illness or treatable mental disorder, we discuss available treatment options with you. We like you or your carers to make the decision. We can help you decide what to do.

This can be medications or other interventions such as

• psychological therapy
• occupational therapy
• communication interventions
• extra social support
• or a combination of above.

We refer you to different professionals depending on the need.

We may ask you to come back and see us in the clinic to see whether you are getting better.  

When you are better and stable, we will tell your GP.

For more information on this, you can write to:

Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership
48 Station Road
Wood Green
London
N22 7TY