Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

Aims & Scope

Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities (AMHID) is a vital and pioneering source of peer-reviewed research and information specific to the mental health needs of people with intellectual/learning disabilities.

The journal integrates current research with practice and keeps researchers and professionals up to date with a variety of different perspectives and international developments in the field.

AMHID supports the delivery of high-quality and evidence-based practice and provides a forum for the debate of current issues and opinions.

The editors welcome the submission of papers from researchers, practitioners, managers and academics who are involved in research with or delivering practice to people with intellectual disabilities with additional mental health needs.

Articles include: current research developments in the design and delivery of services policy and its implications for practice clinical case studies, enabling professionals to learn from the experience of others and to improve their own practice resource reviews.

AMHID is published in partnership with The Estia Centre.

Estia Centre logo. "Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities has become an established forum of knowledge across inter-disciplinary professionals that integrates conceptual thinking, evidence-based practice and research.

It is an important aid in facilitating skills development and improvement." Professor Nick Bouras, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley International, UK.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	1.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.305

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16466

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	55

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Evaluation of treatment outcomes from a medium secure unit for people with intellectual disability

  Citation: 68

  Authors: Regi, Avinash, Verity, Fatima, Ignatius, Sudeep

• Stopping over-medication of people with intellectual disability, Autism or both (STOMP) in England part 1 – history and background of STOMP

  Citation: 62

  Authors: David, David, Nigget, Carl, Anne

• Improving health and lives: The Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Eric, Gyles, Sue, Rob, Chris, Susannah, Alison, Felicity, Hazel, Janet, Victoria

• “Intellectual developmental disorders”: reflections on the international consensus document for redefining “mental retardation-intellectual disability” in ICD-11

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Marco O., Kerim, James, Luis

• Autism and autistic traits in people exposed to heavy prenatal alcohol: data from a clinical series of 21 individuals and nested case control study

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Raja, Michael, Evan, Jeremy

• Exploring how to deliver videoconference-mediated psychological therapy to adults with an intellectual disability during the coronavirus pandemic

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Gregg Harry, Christopher, Keeley, Nigel

• Trauma-focussed cognitive-behaviour therapy for people with mild intellectual disabilities: outcomes of a pilot study

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Biza, Sara, Frances, Philippa, Ruth, Tara, Andrew, Paul

• Diagnosing psychiatric disorders in people with intellectual disabilities: issues and achievements

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Marco O., Michele, Daniela, Annamaria

• Interviewing adults with intellectual disabilities

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Gisli, Theresa

• The adaptation and application of mindfulness‐based psychotherapeutic practices for individuals with intellectual disabilities

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Bronwyn

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