Learning Disabilities: Practice Issues in Health Settings

✍ Scribed by Margaret Todd, Tony Gilbert

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Leaves: 160
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Learning Disabilities raises issues which are of crucial importance to all health care professionals and students who work with people with a learning disability. The authors, senior nurse teachers and practitioners in the field, examine these issues, and the theoretical concepts underpinning them, from a practical perspective. They show how complex and interconnecting ideas such as consumerism and choice, control and empowerment, informed choice and professional power can be applied with real understanding. Learning Disabilities includes * introductions and explanations of key concepts * practical guidelines for care delivery * detailed case studies * useful summaries of key points

✦ Table of Contents

Book cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Part I: Policy and intervention......Page 10
1. Services for people with a learning disability......Page 11
2. Levels of intervention......Page 33
Part II: Judgement, decision-making and practice......Page 52
3. Ethical issues......Page 54
4. Informed choice: from theory to practice......Page 73
5. Empowerment: issues, tensions and conflicts......Page 91
Part III: Specific interventions......Page 112
6. Behavioural approaches......Page 113
7. Psychotherapeutic interventions......Page 133
Glossary......Page 145
Name index......Page 149
Subject index......Page 153

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