CAPSS Masterclass #20 Clinical Perspectives: Working with Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities

This will be an in-person event held at the Royal College of Psychiatrists at 21 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB.

To book, please follow the booking button above. You will be directed to the member's area of the College website where you can log in with your College credentials to make a payment. If you do not have a College member account, you will be prompted to register your details, which will then allow you to log in and make a payment. 

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This event is about working clinically with children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities. Considering assessment and treatment perspectives relating to mental health neurodevelopmental conditions physical health and behaviours.

• What is an ID and how to assess or consider the presence of an ID (IDIDA2H framework)?
• Meeting needs of CYP with ID- MH, NDCs, Physical, reasonable adjustments in the community in IDCAMHS
• STOMP-STAMP campaign
• Pharmacology in CYP with ID- evidence base and practice
• Non-pharmacological approaches to wellbeing and behaviour in CYP with ID- the evidence base/practice 
• ID vs Autism vs ADHD
• The role of hospital care in IDCAMHS including why care in the community?  

Dr Mark Lovell is a dual trained Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Psychiatrist from Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. He is the communications lead for the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Psychiatry Network internationally and has had roles within the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Mark has inputted into NHS England, National Autistic Society and British Academy of Childhood Disability initiatives within his clinical interest areas of Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Health, Autism, ADHD and Informatics.

He is a keen educator and author and has had involvement in the Mind Ed and Disability Matters educational websites as well as contributing to various textbooks.

Dr Ashley Liew trained previously in Paediatrics and has an MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry. He is currently Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital where he works jointly with Paediatricians and Paediatric Neurologists to provide tertiary multidisciplinary neurodevelopmental assessments, joint epilepsy and neuroinflammatory clinics, and psychopharmacological approaches for children with complex neurological and cardiac conditions.

He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and his research focuses on children with intellectual disabilities, neuropsychiatric conditions and integrated paediatric care. Ashley is co-opted on the Executive of the RCPsych Child and Adolescent Faculty and is the Vice-Chair of the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Psychiatry Network.

Dr Priya Hodgins (Chair) previously trained as a community paediatrician in a child development centre and has an MSc in child health. She currently works as consultant intellectual disability CAMHS psychiatrist at Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.

More recently she has been the clinical lead for IDCAMHS services in TEWV NHS trust. She is currently the vice chair for CAPSS.

Please refer to the Royal College of Psychiatrist's Terms and conditions when booking this event.