Learning Disability and other Intellectual Impairments

Meeting Needs Throughout Health Services

Louise Clark, Peter Griffiths (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2008
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-470-03471-2 (ISBN)

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Learning Disability and other Intellectual Impairments is the first book of its kind to explore the similarities and parallels between the needs of people with various types of intellectual impairments as they encounter health services. It not only looks at the shared issues from a bio-psycho-social perspective, but also discusses the transferable skills that a practitioner can develop working across these groups. It identifies the key skills and knowledge that professionals need in order to work with intellectually impaired patients whether they are in the hospital or at home.

Rather than just focusing on people with learning disabilities, this text attempts to break down barriers and look at some of the issues associated with care and treatment of people who have intellectual impairment for a variety of reasons, including acquired brain injury, dementia and long-term mental health issues where cognition has been affected. Learning Disability and other Intellectual Impairments is suitable for health care practitioners at all levels who work with people who have intellectual impairments in their work and who wish to further develop their skills and knowledge to care for this neglected client group.

Louise L. Clark is Lecturer in Intellectual Impairment and Learning Disability in The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College London. Professor Peter Griffiths is Director of England's National Nursing Research Unit at King's College London. He is deputy editor of the International Journal of Nursing Studies and an associate editor of the journal Evidence Based Nursing.

Editors vii

Contributors ix

Foreword xi

1 An Introduction to Intellectual Impairment 1
Louise L. Clark and Peter Griffiths

2 Meeting the Health Needs of People with Intellectual Impairment 15
Steve Higgins and Mary O’Toole

3 Effective Communication 41
Garry Diack and Howard Cohen

4 Primary Care Services for People with Intellectual Impairment 55
Louise Barriball, Allan Hicks, Howard Cohen and Liz Lewry

5 Transitions in the Ageing Population 69
Theresa Wiseman, Karen Lowton and Ian Noonan

6 the Older Adult, Intellectual Impairment and The Dementias 89
Emma Ouldred and Catherine Bryant

7 Emergency and Urgent Hospital-based Care 117
Ian Noonan and Karen Lowton

8 Admission to Acute Mental Health Services 139
Mary O’Toole, Mike Reid and Rob Winterhalder

9 Psychopharmacological Issues 165
Rob Winterhalder

10 Challenging Behaviour 179
Michael Kelly

11 Consent and Capacity 197
Alison Hobden and Simon Mills

12 the Future of Services for Intellectual Impairment 217
Peter Griffiths, Rob Winterhalder, Louise L. Clark and Allan Hicks

Index 233

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2008
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 238 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
ISBN-10	0-470-03471-8 / 0470034718
ISBN-13	978-0-470-03471-2 / 9780470034712
Zustand	Neuware