Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (eBook, PDF)

A Service Provider's Guide
Redaktion: Hogg, James; Langa, Arturo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405150286
• Artikelnr.: 38280922

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Assesssment in Perspective (James Hogg and ArturoLanga).

PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT.

Chapter 1: Issues in the Systematic Assessment of Quality ofLife (Robert A. Cummins).

Chapter 2: Outside the Box: Assessment for Life and Work in theCommunity (Patricia Noonan Walsh).

Chapter 3: Interdisciplinary Assessment of People with ProfoundIntellectual and Multiple Disabilities (Carla Vlaskamp).

Chapter 4: The Assessment of Mental Illness in Individuals withIntellectual Disabilities (Edwin J. Mikkelsen, Lauren R. Charlotand Arturo Langa).

Chapter 5: Issues in the Assessment of Challenging Behaviour(Eric Emerson).

Chapter 6: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend orAre Alleged to Have Offended (Gillian Anderson).

Chapter 7: The Assessment of Dementia in People withIntellectual Disabilites Context, Strategy and Methods (ChrisOliver and Sunny Kalsy).

Chapter 8: Genetic Syndromes and Behavioural Phenotypes (RobertM. Walley).

PART II: STRATEGIES AND INSTRUMENTS.

Chapter 9: Instruments Assessing Quality of Life (Robert A.Cummins).

Chapter 10: Assessment and Employment of People withIntellectual Disabilites (Patricia Noonan Walsh).

Chapter 11: Assessing People with Profound Intellectual andMultiple Disabilites (Carla Vlaskamp).

Chapter 12: Commonly Employed Psychopathology Instruments forIndividuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Lauren R. Charlot andEdwin J, Mikkelsen).

Chapter 13: Instruments for Assessing Behavioural Problems (KirkZimbelman).

Chapter 14: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend orAre at Risk of Offending: Assessing Need and Risk (GillianAnderson).

Chapter 15: The Assessment of Dementia in People withIntellectual Disabilities Key Assessment Instruments (Sunny Kalsyand Chris Oliver).

Chapter 16: Behavioural Phenotypes: Approaches to Assessment(Robert M. Walley).

Index.

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"Hogg and Langa have assembled a gem... they have captured a rangeof nuanced issues and problems facing workers in the field ofintellectual disabilities. This text is sure to become anindispensable companion to any clinician, researcher, or providerwanting to better understand assessment and the complex lives ofpeople with intellectual disabilities." Matthew P. Janicki,Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

"A timely publication that brings together a group of highlyrespected contributors from Europe, North America and Australia.Its strength lies in its coverage of important conceptual issues,including person-centred planning, supported by a critical analysisof contemporary strategies and assessment instruments. The focus onperson-centred planning ensures its relevance to emerging practicesin the support of people with an intellectual disability. It willfind a place in the libraries of both practitioners andresearchers." Professor Trevor R. Parmenter, Foundation Chair ofDevelopmental Disability, University of Sydney

"This is a thought-provoking review of current assessmentpractice, reflecting the shift towards person-centred approachesand a concern to make assessment secure better lives for peoplewith intellectual disabilities." Professor Jim Mansell, TizardCentre, University of Kent at Canterbury