Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (eBook)

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.

Introduction: Assesssment in Perspective (James Hogg and Arturo
Langa).

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.