Supporting Women with Learning Disabilities through the Menopause
Supporting Women with Learning Disabilities through the Menopause
Author: Michelle McCarthy & Lorraine Millard
Format: CD-rom and DVD
ISBN: 978 1 84196 106 4
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Thishighly flexible training resource is designed to fill a gap in availablematerial on the menopause for women with learning disabilities, as identified byresidential and day services staff.

The illustrated, DVD pack provides acomprehensive introduction to the physical, emotional, psychological and socialeffects of the menopause and how it might differently affect women with learningdisabilities to those in the general population. This resource providesmaterials for both service users, and their carers to inform, advise andencourage women with learning disabilities to cope better with what can be adistressing transition.

This resource includes:
• backgroundmaterial
• training exercises
• suggested programmes for running shorthalf-day or one-day courses
• photocopiable leaflet templates providingmaterial for doctors, staff, parents/carers and women with learningdisabilities
• a video to stimulate discussion and provide informationthrough illustrations and group work.

The exercises and resourcesconsider the various myths and stereotypes about the menopause and advise onpotential health risks and common worries and responses of women with learningdisabilities.

Vital information for: trainers, managers,occupational therapists, direct care staff, primary healthcare staff, communitylearning disability teams, those who run women’s groups and sex educationgroups.

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