Key concepts in learning disabilities /
Key concepts in learning disabilities /
edited by Pat Talbot, Geoff Astbury and Tom Mason.
- London : SAGE, 2009.
- 288 p. ; 22 cm.
- Key concepts .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Advocacy -- Arts: drama therapy -- Assessment -- Autism -- Behavioural phenotypes -- Causes -- Challenging behaviour -- Children and adolescents -- Choice -- Communication -- Community learning disability nursing -- Compassion -- Complementary medicine/therapies -- Consent -- Complex needs -- Development -- Disability studies -- Employment -- Empowerment -- Epilepsy -- Ethnicity -- Forensic services -- Friendships and social networks -- Health services -- Inclusion (social) -- Intelligence -- Learning -- Life skills -- Life story -- Loss -- Mental health -- Multi-agency and multi-professional services -- Nursing -- Older people -- Parenthood -- Parents and families -- Person-centred planning -- Physical health -- Psychological therapies -- Rights -- Service philosphy -- Service quality -- Service user voice -- Sexuality -- Social care -- Social model of disaibility -- Spirituality -- Transition -- Values - Vulnerability.
This is a handy guide to the topics you need to know about whether studying or working in the field of learning disabilities. The A-Z format allows you to 'dip in' and quickly find relevant information on topics ranging from autism to rights and from advocacy to challenging behaviours.
9781848606357 (pbk.) : �21.99 9781848606340 (hbk.) : �65.00 9781848606357 (Paper)
Learning disabilities.
Health and Wellbeing.
Nursing
Teaching of students with learning difficulties
Disability: social aspects
HV3004
616.85889 TAL
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Advocacy -- Arts: drama therapy -- Assessment -- Autism -- Behavioural phenotypes -- Causes -- Challenging behaviour -- Children and adolescents -- Choice -- Communication -- Community learning disability nursing -- Compassion -- Complementary medicine/therapies -- Consent -- Complex needs -- Development -- Disability studies -- Employment -- Empowerment -- Epilepsy -- Ethnicity -- Forensic services -- Friendships and social networks -- Health services -- Inclusion (social) -- Intelligence -- Learning -- Life skills -- Life story -- Loss -- Mental health -- Multi-agency and multi-professional services -- Nursing -- Older people -- Parenthood -- Parents and families -- Person-centred planning -- Physical health -- Psychological therapies -- Rights -- Service philosphy -- Service quality -- Service user voice -- Sexuality -- Social care -- Social model of disaibility -- Spirituality -- Transition -- Values - Vulnerability.
This is a handy guide to the topics you need to know about whether studying or working in the field of learning disabilities. The A-Z format allows you to 'dip in' and quickly find relevant information on topics ranging from autism to rights and from advocacy to challenging behaviours.
9781848606357 (pbk.) : �21.99 9781848606340 (hbk.) : �65.00 9781848606357 (Paper)
Learning disabilities.
Health and Wellbeing.
Nursing
Teaching of students with learning difficulties
Disability: social aspects
HV3004
616.85889 TAL