DCP Faculty for People With Intellectual Disabilities
The Faculty for People With Intellectual Disabilities is part of the Division of Clinical Psychology. We currently have over 400 members throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
About
The Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities provides a forum for Clinical Psychologists with an interest in work with people with intellectual disabilities.
We have two main strategic roles:
- Promoting the psychological needs of people with intellectual disabilities within policy and practice, both nationally and in local services, within ‘mainstream’ and ‘specialist’ services
- Supporting clinical psychologists who work with people with an intellectual disability
Our aims
Our aims are to...
- Highlight the rights of people with an intellectual disability, enhance their status and promote a positive image.
- Support clinical psychologists to engage in best practice, and to develop their skills and experience in working with people with intellectual disability
- Enhance clinical psychologists’ knowledge of current research, issues within the field and practice developments
- Provide consultation, both informally and formally, to promote the needs of people with intellectual disability and those who support them
- Promote a psychological understanding and the best psychological practice across the lives of people with intellectual disability, including families and carers, services, commissioners and the wider community
What we do
The Faculty is involved in a range of activities. These include:
- Publishing a quarterly journal The Bulletin
- Producing a regular Newsletter for our members
- Organising conferences and training events
- Producing briefing papers and policy documents
- Supporting regional groups of clinical psychologists who work with people with learning disabilities
- Liaising with other agencies and professional groups
- Providing feedback on policy documents that have been issued for consultation by the Department of Health and other organisations
Our committee
Chair: Jason Crabtree
Past Chair: Sophie Doswell
Honorary Secretary: Sabiha Azmi
Honorary Treasurer: Tom Crossland
Committee Members:
- Alastair Barrowcliff
- Catherine Randle-Phillips
- Ellen Boddington
- Jennifer Shaw
- Jonathan Codd
- Karen Dodd
- Katherine Allez
- Melanie Hodgkinson
- Reed Cappleman
CPD Lead: Jonathan Williams
Research & Development Lead: Kate Theodore
Training Lead: Alison Spencer
Website Editor: Julian Morris
Physical Health Representative: Katherine Allez
Northern Ireland Representative: Matthew McMurray
Scotland Representative: Moira Phillips
Scotland Representative (Temporary Cover): Anna Whiteley
Wales Representative: Hayley Thomas
DCP Pre-Qualification Group Representative: Luke Yates
If you would like to apply for any vacant positions, please complete a Statement of Interest form.
If you would like to find out if there are any other positions available, please contact the Member Networks Team.
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News
Events
Resources
FPID Guidelines
- Psychological interventions for severely challenging behaviours shown by people with learning disabilities
- Training and consolidation of clinical practice in relation to adults with intellectual disabilities
- Commissioning Clinical Psychology services for adults with learning disabilities
- Dementia and People with Intellectual Disabilities
- Good Practice Guidelines for Clinical Psychologists when assessing Parents with Learning Disabilities
- Guidance on Neuropsychological Testing with Individuals who have Intellectual Disabilities
- Guidance on the Assessment and Diagnosis of Intellectual Disabilities in Adulthood
- Incorporating Attachment Theory Into Practice: Guidelines for Clinical Psychologist working with People who have Intellectual Disabilities
- Learning Disability: Definitions and Contexts
- Psychological Therapies and People who have Intellectual Disabilities
- Working with Autism - best practice guidelines for psychologists
- Capacity guidelines - a guide to Best Interests Decision Making
- Capacity guidelines - capacity to consent to sexual relations
- Capacity guidelines - what makes a good assessment of capacity?
- Information leaflet - Therapy with a psychologist: understanding formulation
External resources
- Framework for the implementation of Trauma Informed Care in residential and supported living services for adults with a learning disability
- LD Professional Senate - Outcomes Paper
- Mini MANS-LD User Guide
- QNLD Standards for Adult Community Learning Disability Services
- QNLD Standards for Inpatient Learning Disability Services
- Quality outcome measure for individuals with dementia (QOMID)
- Quality outcome measure for individuals with dementia (QOMID) Scoring Sheet
Bulletin of the Faculty of People with Intellectual Disabilities
The Bulletin of the Faculty of People with Intellectual Disabilities is a publication to keep clinical psychologists working in the field of learning disability informed about:
- Faculty and other relevant Society activities;
- innovative practice changes in statutory provision and legislation related to people with intellectual disabilities;
- latest research; and
- training courses, events and conferences
It also provides a means for clinical psychologists, trainees and assistants to make contact with colleagues working with similar issues or projects.
Latest articles - FPID Bulletin
- Periodicals
The heart of the team: The role of assistant psychologists and specialist support workers in an intensive community support team - FPID Bulletin: The Bulletin of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Volume: 20 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-01-2022
Author(s): Rubia Khatun, Olsa Shanaj, Bethan Ramsey, Hannah Deering, Hannah Harrison-Rowe
- Periodicals
Editorial - FPID Bulletin: The Bulletin of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Volume: 20 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2022
Author(s): Hayley Thomas
- Periodicals
Reducing restrictive practices through interactive care planning with mediators - FPID Bulletin: The Bulletin of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Volume: 20 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2022
Author(s): Lawrence Patterson
- Periodicals
Experiences of a service-wide restrictive practice audit in a supported living organisation - FPID Bulletin: The Bulletin of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Volume: 20 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2022
Author(s): Angharad Parr, Cathy Harding
- Periodicals
Editorial - FPID Bulletin: The Bulletin of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Volume: 20 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-01-2022
Author(s): Kate Theodore
Projects
Here you'll find information on current and past projects overseen by the FPID.
- Reducing Restrictive Practice and Improving Quality of Life
- Outcome Measures for Challenging Behaviour
- Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both (STOMP)
The Faculty is focusing on promoting the physical health of individuals with intellectual disability and guidelines will be published soon.
- Fun & fitness: a community sport’s development programme for adults with learning disabilities
- Exploration of body perception and body dissatisfaction in young adults with intellectual disability
- Achieving Quality and Safety Improvement - Improvement Cymru Strategy
Join
Apply to join the faculty (students, affiliates, e-subscribers)
Apply to join the faculty (graduate, chartered, and in-training members)
Membership of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities is only open to members of the British Psychological Society.
There are three grades of faculty membership:
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Full membership
For psychologists who are Full Members of the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) and who work in or have an interest or expertise in the field of people with intellectual disabilities.
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Affiliate membership
For psychologists who are General (Pre-Training) and In-Training members of the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP). Affiliate members may take part in discussions but may not vote.
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Associate membership
For General members of the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) and non-Division members. Associate members may take part in discussions but may not vote.
If you are not already a member, you can join the faculty at the same time as applying for membership of the society.
Benefits of belonging
Benefits of Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities membership
The Faculty promotes awareness of current research, issues within the field and models of clinical practice at all levels of service provision, as well as within the profession, through conferences accessible to psychologists and others of all levels of experience.
Benefits include conferences and events, briefing papers and policy documents and liaising with other agencies and professional groups.
Member Announcement Email List
The Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities uses its membership announcement email list to inform its members of activities and initiatives that are relevant to their interests and to make requests for engagement on topical issues.
By becoming a member of the Faculty you are automatically added to the announcement list.
To receive these emails you will need to:
- become a member of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities
- opt into receiving email communication and provide a working email address
These preferences can be updated by logging into your member portal.
If you have any queries, please contact Member Network Services.
To assist us in responding to your query please make sure to include your membership number and quote 'Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities announcement email' in the subject line.
Member Discussion Email List
To join the Member Discussion List please login to your member portal and click on the Preferences tile, where you’ll be able to join the discussion list.
To receive discussion list emails you will need to be
- a member of the DCP Faculty for People With Intellectual Disabilities
- opted into receiving email communication from the Society (you can change your preference by logging onto your account via the member portal)
Getting involved with Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities Committee
The Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities relies on a wide range of people getting involved, and the work of the Faculty is largely achieved through the dedication of unpaid volunteers.
Our volunteers come from a wide range of different backgrounds, whether they be practitioners or academics, or full members or in-training members, and together form an open and inclusive community.
The first point of contact for any queries regarding the work of the DCP Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities should be the Member Network Services Team.
The Member Network Services team provides support to all our Member Networks.