‘It's like an itch and I want to get it away but it's still there’: understandings and experiences of anxiety and depression among young people with intellectual disabilities

Kirsten Stalker; Andrew Jahoda; Alastair Wilson; Anja Cairney

doi:10.1080/15017419.2010.540836

‘It's like an itch and I want to get it away but it's still there’: understandings and experiences of anxiety and depression among young people with intellectual disabilities

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 13 (2011): Issue 4

By: Kirsten Stalker, Andrew Jahoda, Alastair Wilson and Anja Cairney

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|May 2011

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2010.540836 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011

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Language: English

Page range: 311 - 326

Submitted on: May 27, 2009

Accepted on: Sep 27, 2010

Published on: May 4, 2011

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

young people,

learning disabilities,

mental health,

user views

© 2011 Kirsten Stalker, Andrew Jahoda, Alastair Wilson, Anja Cairney, published by Stockholm University Press
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