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Learning disability and other intellectual impairments : meeting needs throughout health services / edited by Louise L. Clark and Peter Griffiths.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning disabled--Medical care--Great Britain.
- Learning disabled.
- Learning disabled--Services for--Great Britain.
- Learning disabilities--Nursing--Great Britain.
- Learning disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 t
- Contents:
- Learning Disability and other Intellectual Impairments : Meeting Needs Throughout Health Services; Contents; Editors; Contributors; Foreword; 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; 2 MEETING THE HEALTH NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; 3 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; 4 PRIMARY CARE SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; 5 TRANSITIONS IN THE AGEING POPULATION; 6 THE OLDER ADULT, INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT AND THE DEMENTIAS; 7 EMERGENCY AND URGENT HOSPITAL-BASED CARE; 8 ADMISSION TO ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; 9 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL ISSUES; 10 CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR
- 11 CONSENT AND CAPACITY12 THE FUTURE OF SERVICES FOR INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612342196
- 9781282342194
- 1282342193
- 9780470697863
- 0470697865
- 9780470697894
- 047069789X
- OCLC:
- 609849018
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