John Clements

Assessing Behaviors Regarded as Problematic

For People with Developmental Disabilities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author offers practical strategies for gathering and analysing information about behaviors, in partnership with the individual concerned, in order to gain a useful understanding of why a particular behavior occurs. Case histories, with corresponding behavior plans, clearly demonstrate the real-life application of assessment methods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781853029981
• ISBN-10: 185302998X
• Artikelnr.: 21411741

Autorenporträt

John Clements is a clinical psychologist of over thirty years' standing, specializing in the field of developmental disabilities. He has previously worked for the NHS and university system in the UK and jointly established the UK's first independent psychology practice specializing in issues for people with developmental disabilities. He currently works as a behavior consultant in California, taking a particular interest in helping people with autism and their families. Neil Martin works at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Establishing the assessment agenda. 2. Relationships in
assessment: The empathy mode. 3. Relationships in assessment: The analytic
mode. 4. The tool box, John Clements and Neil Martin. 5. Extracting meaning
from the information gathered. 6. The Behavioural Explorer Assessment
System, John Clements and Neil Martin. 7. The stories we can tell. 8.
Organizing the practice. 9. Last words. Appendix 1: Behaviour recording
charts. Appendix 2: Clements Rapid Assessment Protocol. Resources. Index