Behavioral Health
It is common that people with IDD have co-occurring health conditions, and the most common are mental health related. Research has shown that emotional supports, counseling, and physical activity have a preventative effect on health problems such as heart disease and depression. Providing individuals and their families resources to support behavioral and mental health can work well to improve your patient’s overall health outcomes.
Check out these video trainings, tools, and links to improve behavioral health.
Check out these video trainings, tools, and links to improve behavioral health.
Video Training
Understanding Challenging Behavior
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Sensory Modulation: An Underutilized Tool for Reducing Anxiety in People with Autism Spectrum Disorders and IDD
The Road to Recovery: Supporting Children with IDD Who Have Experienced Trauma
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Tools
Links
- Depression in Adults With Mild Intellectual Disability: Role of Stress, Attributions, and Coping (Hartley and MacLean, 2009).
- Mental Health and IDD: Articles with strategies and tips for mental health concerns.
- Alaska Youth & Family Network: Links to local services
- Risk Assessment Tool for Behavioral Health Crisis (Vanderbilt)
- Alaska Autism Resource Center, provides information, referral, training, and consultation via on-site and distance delivery.
- Referral for Challenging Behaviors, Alaska Challenging Behaviors Collaborative
- Sensory processing dysfunctions as expressed among children with different severities of intellectual developmental disabilities (Yeger, Hardal-Nasser and Gal, 2011)