Supporting women with learning disabilities through the menopause. A manual and training resource for health and social care workers. Second edition

This flexible new edition of our best-selling training book provides a valuable resource for working with individuals and groups, as well as for staff training, on the vital topic of menopause. It provides thoroughly piloted and comprehensive information about the menopause, in addition to how women with learning disabilities can be affected and how they might best be supported. Training on the menopause within services is very rare, therefore the exercises in this pack are designed to encourage those with or without specialist knowledge to run training for other staff, and do supportive work with service users. The group work option gives women with learning disabilities the opportunity to come together and recognise that the menopause is a normal part of life and something that happens to all women. As well as learning about the menopause, it can foster a sense of sharing and connection. As a resource for individual work, the materials provide an opportunity to give information and discuss personal subjects in depth, with the aid of pictures and film. The resource also contains a variety of staff training exercises, with supporting materials, which will help prepare staff for this work. They are designed to enable staff to recognise when women with learning disabilities might be going through the menopause and how they might help them deal with this. As well as providing advice for care workers, the book also aims to empower women with learning disabilities to make decisions for themselves about how they manage the menopause, with the inclusion of material written directly for them.