Ep. 13 Joan Beasley and Luke Kalb - MHIDD Special Issue

Our Winter 2023-2024 special issue was dedicated to the wellbeing and mental health aspects of persons with IDD. We were interested in all facets of this topic, with a particular focus on engagement with people with IDD, integrated wellbeing and mental health assessment and treatment approaches, inclusive research, and positive mental health. We were lucky to have Drs. Joan Beasley and Luke Kalb serve as the guest editors for this issue. Matt interviewed them about this topic and how the issue came together. A full transcript is available here.

You can read Joan and Luke's editorial and all the articles in the special issue here.

Joan B. Beasley received her PhD from the Heller School in Social Policy at Brandeis University. She has worked to improve mental health services for people with IDD for over 40 years. Joni is the author of START, an evidence based and evidence informed crisis prevention and Intervention program implemented across the U.S. Dr. Beasley believes that research, especially inclusive research is key to move the field forward. She is currently the Principal Investigator and co-Investigator on several research inclusive research projects, including a federally funded 5 year Comparative Effectiveness Research study to compare Telehealth with in person services for people with MH-IDD. Her most recent efforts have focused on the development and use of Patient Reported Experience Measures for people with IDD regarding their mental health service experiences.

 

Dr. Luther (Luke) Kalb received his PhD from the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. During his studies, he received an NIMH Children’s Mental Health Services research fellowship, the Morton Kramer award for excellence in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, an F-31 award through NICHD, and was named a Wendy Klag Center Scholar.

National Research Consortium on Mental Health in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities