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Mental health services for adults with intellectual disability : strategies and solutions / edited by Nick Bouras and Geraldine Holt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Maudsley monographs.
- Maudsley monographs, 0076-5465
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectual disability.
- Mental health services.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hove, East Sussex ; New York, NY : Psychology Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice.Nick Bouras and Geraldine Holt both have extensive experience in developing and running mental health services and bring together international contributors all with longstanding expertise in the fields of mental health and intellectual disability. They present the current evidence based practice as how people with intellectual disability can be best care
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; PART I: Development of specialist mental health services; CHAPTER ONE: The specialist mental health model and other services in a changing environment; CHAPTER TWO: Services for people with intellectual disability and offending behaviour; CHAPTER THREE: An international perspective of mental health services for people with intellectual disability; PART II: Clinical practice; CHAPTER FOUR: Assessment, diagnosis and rating instruments; CHAPTER FIVE: Service use and outcomes
- CHAPTER SIX: Neuroimaging and genetic syndromesCHAPTER SEVEN: The association between psychopathology and intellectual disability; PART III: Training as an integrated component of service delivery; CHAPTER EIGHT: Training professionals, family carers and support staff to work effectively with people with intellectual disability and mental health problems; Online resources; Author index; Subject 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:
- 1-135-14767-1
- 1-135-14768-X
- 1-282-57007-2
- 9786612570070
- 0-203-85608-2
- 9780203856086
- OCLC:
- 609850601
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