Learning Disabilities: Towards Inclusion -

Learning Disabilities: Towards Inclusion

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592 Seiten
2011 | 6th Revised edition
Churchill Livingstone
978-0-7020-4285-0 (ISBN)
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Offers real ways to improve quality of experience for people with learning disabilities in all areas of life. This title focuses on practice developments including the impact of changing policy and legislation on the nature and configuration of services.
"Learning Disabilities: Toward Inclusion" (formerly edited by Bob Gates) is one of the leading textbooks in this field. It offers real ways to improve quality of experience for people with learning disabilities in all areas of life. This new edition brings together a comprehensive and coherent collection of material from eminent authors with a wealth of professional backgrounds and roles. Its contemporary focus reflects practice developments including the impact of changing policy and legislation on the nature and configuration of services. Printed book plus Pageburst access - you will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst enhances learning by not only bringing world class content to your fingertips but also letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it all in a way that suits you. Pageburst frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching.

Section 1: Living with learning disabilities 1 The social construction of learning disability 2 Causes of learning disability 3 Eugenics: the creation and maintenance of difference 4 Values-based support 5 Ethical issues Section 2: Implementing values-based support 6 Let me speak - facilitating communication 7 Advocacy 8 Personal narrative and life story 9 Person-centred strategies for planning 10 Inclusive research: we are the artists of our lives 11 Positive risk taking 12 Safeguarding against abuse and harm Section 3: Overcoming challenges to good health 13 Enabling good health 14 Physical health 15 Sensory awareness 16 Epilepsy 17 Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities 18 Challenging behaviour 19 Working with offenders 20 Autistic spectrum conditions Section 4: Facilitating transition across the lifespan 21 Working with people to make choices 22 Working with families 23 Childhood 24 Leisure and friendships 25 Education for children and young people with learning disabilities 26 Employment 27 A place to live 28 Sexual and personal relationships 29 Growing older: meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities 30 End of Life

Zusatzinfo Illustrated
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 189 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Persönlichkeitsstörungen
Pflege Fachpflege Neurologie / Psychiatrie
ISBN-10 0-7020-4285-4 / 0702042854
ISBN-13 978-0-7020-4285-0 / 9780702042850
Zustand Neuware
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