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This handbook helps professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities to establish the needs of individuals through systematic assessment and to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide.
* A comprehensive handbook for professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities.
* Enables these professionals to establish the needs of individuals
* Helps them to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide.
* Expert contributions include conceptual chapters and descriptions of selected assessment instruments.
* Covers the full spectrum of need, including adults with mental health difficulties, behavioural problems, forensic needs and assessment of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and those suspected of developing dementia.
* A comprehensive handbook for professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities.
* Enables these professionals to establish the needs of individuals
* Helps them to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide.
* Expert contributions include conceptual chapters and descriptions of selected assessment instruments.
* Covers the full spectrum of need, including adults with mental health difficulties, behavioural problems, forensic needs and assessment of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and those suspected of developing dementia.
€59.99
Table of Content
Introduction: Assesssment in Perspective (James Hogg and ArturoLanga).
PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT.
Chapter 1: Issues in the Systematic Assessment of Quality of
Life (Robert A. Cummins).
Chapter 2: Outside the Box: Assessment for Life and Work in the
Community (Patricia Noonan Walsh).
Chapter 3: Interdisciplinary Assessment of People with Profound
Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (Carla Vlaskamp).
Chapter 4: The Assessment of Mental Illness in Individuals with
Intellectual Disabilities (Edwin J. Mikkelsen, Lauren R. Charlot
and Arturo Langa).
Chapter 5: Issues in the Assessment of Challenging Behaviour
(Eric Emerson).
Chapter 6: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend or
Are Alleged to Have Offended (Gillian Anderson).
Chapter 7: The Assessment of Dementia in People with
Intellectual Disabilites Context, Strategy and Methods (Chris
Oliver and Sunny Kalsy).
Chapter 8: Genetic Syndromes and Behavioural Phenotypes (Robert
M. Walley).
PART II: STRATEGIES AND INSTRUMENTS.
Chapter 9: Instruments Assessing Quality of Life (Robert A.
Cummins).
Chapter 10: Assessment and Employment of People with
Intellectual Disabilites (Patricia Noonan Walsh).
Chapter 11: Assessing People with Profound Intellectual and
Multiple Disabilites (Carla Vlaskamp).
Chapter 12: Commonly Employed Psychopathology Instruments for
Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Lauren R. Charlot and
Edwin J, Mikkelsen).
Chapter 13: Instruments for Assessing Behavioural Problems (Kirk
Zimbelman).
Chapter 14: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend or
Are at Risk of Offending: Assessing Need and Risk (Gillian
Anderson).
Chapter 15: The Assessment of Dementia in People with
Intellectual Disabilities Key Assessment Instruments (Sunny Kalsy
and Chris Oliver).
Chapter 16: Behavioural Phenotypes: Approaches to Assessment
(Robert M. Walley).
Index.
About the author
James Hogg is Director of the White Top Research Unit,University of Dundee and Research Professor.
Arturo Langa is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Lead
Clinician working for Lanarkshire Primary Care Trust, and Senior
Honorary Lecturer at the University of Dundee.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 264 ● ISBN 9781405150286 ● File size 1.0 MB ● Editor James Hogg & Arturo Langa ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2008 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2367626 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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