title: How counselling services can help deal with loss and change.
abstract: Transferring people with learning disabilities from hospitals to community-based homes is generally a positive experience. But some people undergo feelings of loss during the process and need special support. This paper explores the issues and describes how a new counselling service helped one woman come to terms with her new lifestyle outside hospital.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Read
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003376:Counseling; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*