The Handbook of Clinical Types in Mental Retardation
Author: Seymour Lemeshow
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Seymour Lemeshow
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: F.J. Menolascino
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1468447424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume aims to provide the reader with a contemporary account of his torical, diagnostic, treatment-management (including the individual and the service systems perspectives), and training dimensions of mentally ill/mentally retarded individuals from interdisciplinary perspectives. Emphasis is placed on current and evolving aspects of this topic. The broad scope of our approach is consistent with the concepts and practices that currently typify this topical area of clinical and research activity. This volume is divided into five sections. Part I deals with the definitional aspects: the nature and incidence, the historical aspects, and a view of assessing the types of needs of mentally ill/mentally retarded individuals. Part II ad dresses the key issues in treatment intervention: from an individual therapeutic aspect through vocational considerations, as well as the role of the parents in these helping processes. Part III focuses on systems of service delivery, ranging from inpatient and day treatment models to the delivery of services in the home; at all times, the emphasis is on programs that have been successful. Part IV presents a modern perspective on the multiple challenges in training both men tal health and mental retardation specialists, as well as the critical dimension of providing a well-trained cadre of paraprofessionals in both fields. And finally, Part V encompasses key current research perspectives as well as possible future directions for this rapidly growing area of professional interest and involve ment.
Author: Daria Riva
Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 2742006877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a comprehensive update on multiple aspects of the wide-ranging topic of mental retardation. The opening part of the volume is dedicated to the definition of mental retardation and to the various classification systems, within an epidemiologic perspective. A second core section presents the neuropsychology of mental retardation, considering both the global approach to the identification of the different deficits present in this condition, and the definition of specific cognitive-behavioural phenotypes possibly related to distinct genetic syndromes or gene defects. Of particular interest are some contributions to the neurological diagnosis of mental retardation, providing the clinical description of several specific disorders and genetic syndromes, and outlining the essential diagnostic input provided by genetic tests. The psychiatric comorbidity of mentally retarded subjects is presented, and specific chapters are geared to the medical treatment of mental retardation and the psychopharmacology of the associated neuropsychiatric disorders. A final section deals with several cognitive, psycho-pedagogic, and psycho-educative rehabilitation approaches focusing on the life-long disability deriving from mental retardation.
Author: Jane R. Mercer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780520021839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the origin of the number system based on ten, explains how it works, and how it is used in the abacus, the metric system, and our money system. Includes study questions with answers.
Author: United States. Office of Mental Retardation Coordination
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: R. C. Scheerenberger
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patricia Ainsworth (M.D.)
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1604730536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →CONSUMER HEALTH . What measures can parents and advocates take to insure that people who have mental retardation live full, rewarding lives from infancy to old age?. Understanding Mental Retardation explores a diverse group of disorders from their biological roots to the everyday challenges faced by this special population and their families. With parents and those who care for people who have mental retardation in mind, Patricia Ainsworth and Pamela C. Baker write in a style that is at once accessible, informative, and sympathetic to the concerns of those affected. The authors provide practical information that will assist families and other advocates in obtaining needed services. They discuss assessment and treatment, education and employment, social and sexual adjustment, as well as regulatory and legal issues. This book covers the causes of mental retardation, the signs and symptoms of the most common forms of these disorders, and issues of prevention. For the sake of comparison, the book describes basic concepts of normal human development and references the history of Western civilization's responses to those with mental retardation. Understanding Mental Retardation sheds new light on mental illnesses that can complicate the lives of those with mental retardation, and the way symptoms of mental illness may appear confused or masked in a patient with mental retardation. Along with information on treatments and diagnoses, the book offers contact information for governmental resources, as well as a brief summary of the legal issues pertaining to mental retardation in America. Patricia Ainsworth is an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and has a private practice in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She is the author of Understanding Depression (University Press of Mississippi). Pamela C. Baker is director of the South Mississippi Regional Center in Long Beach, Mississippi. She is also an independent consultant in management and disabilities administration and co-editor of Embarking on a New Century: Mental Retardation at the End of the 20th Century .
Author: Liza Gold
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1461454476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Disability evaluations are the most common clinical mental health evaluations conducted for nontreatment purposes. They place mental health professionals in the role of communicating information that is typically confidential to administrative and legal systems. Unfortunately, mental health professionals receive little to no training in conducting assessments that focus on disability and disability management, and often do not understand the implications and risks of providing this information, especially without conducting what are often specialized evaluations. Clinical Guide to Mental Health Disability Evaluations is geared for general mental health practitioners, providing them with the basic information needed to competently provide the various types of disability evaluations. It also provides enough information to inform forensic mental health providers in conducting more specialized evaluations.
Author: Johnny L. Matson
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 696
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 1068
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.