What is mental retardation? : ideas for an evolving disability in the 21st century / editors Harvey N. Switzky & Stephen Greenspan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Switzky, Harvey N., editor.

Greenspan, Stephen, editor.

American Association on Mental Retardation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual disability.

American Association on Mental Retardation.

Intellectual Disability--classification.

Intellectual Disability--diagnosis.

Persons with Mental Disabilities--classification.

Intellectual Disability.

intellectual disability.

Medical Subjects:

American Association on Mental Retardation.

Intellectual Disability--classification.

Intellectual Disability--diagnosis.

Persons with Mental Disabilities--classification.

Intellectual Disability.

Physical Description:

xxv, 358 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : American Association on Mental Retardation, 2006.

Contents:

Part 1. The concept of mental retardation : critical issues 2005. Forty-four years of AAMR manuals / Stephen Greenspan, Harvey N. Switzky ; On the 2002 AAMR definition of mental retardation / George S. Baroff ; An update on label and definitional asynchrony : the missing 'mental' and 'retardation' in mental retardation / Laraine Masters Glidden ; Quo vadis mental retardation? : definition by aggregation versus the hope for individual futures / J. David Smith ; On being labeled with mental retardation / Martha E. Snell, Mary D. Voorhees ; How we eradicated familial (hereditary) mental retardation, updated / Herman H. Spitz

Part 2. The 2002 AAMR system and its critics and supporters. Mental retardation : confusing sentiment with science / Alfred A. Baumeister ; Neighbors and friends : social implications of intellectual disability / David L. Coulter ; Look before you leap : implications of the 1992 and 2002 definitions of mental retardation / Douglas K. Detterman, Lynne Gabriel.

Part 3. Emerging models and definitions of mental retardation. Defining and assessing spirituality and spiritual supports : moving from benediction to invocation / William C. Gaventa ; Mental retardation in the real world : why the AAMR definition is not there yet / Stephen Greenspan ; Ten years later : two AAMR tales of a condition / John W. Jacobson, James A. Mulick ; Children with mild mental retardation : a challenge for classification practices, revised / Donald L. MacMillan, Gary N. Siperstein, James S. Leffert ; Adaptation, remission, and growth : conceptual challenges to the definition of mental retardation, medical implications and applications / Alya Reeve ; Scientific and judgmental issues involved in defining mental retardation / Robert L. Schalock ; The concept and classification of mental retardation / Rune J. Simeonsson, Mats Granlund, Eva Bjorck-Akesson ; The importance of cognitive-motivational variables in understanding mental retardation in the 21st century / Harvey N. Switzky ; Lessons from the Atkins decision for the next AAMR manual / Stephen Greenspan, Harvey N. Switzky ; The relationship between the WHO-ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health) and the AAMR 2002 system / Wil H.E. Buntinx ; Focusing comprehensive functional assessment : a case formulation of dual diagnosis treatment priorities using ICF (ICIDH-2) / John W. Jacobson

Summary and conclusions : can so many diverse ideas be integrated? : multiparadigmatic models of understanding mental retardation in the 21st century / Stephen Greenspan, Harvey N. Switzky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: What is mental retardation?

ISBN:

0940898934

9780940898936

0940898942

9780940898943

OCLC:

68693767