Learning Disabilities: Towards Inclusion
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- Jonathan Evans
- Eamon Shanley, BA(Hons)(Soc Psy) MSc(NEd) MCounsel PhD RNID RMN CPN , Mental Health Nurse/Counsellor Limestone Coast Division of General Practice Mount Gambier, SA, Australia Edited by
- Helen Atherton, BSc(Hons), PhD, RNLD , Lecturer in Nursing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Debbie Crickmore, BSc(Hons) MSc RNLD, Lecturer in Learning Disability, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull, UK
Learning Disabilities: Toward Inclusion (formerly edited by Bob Gates) is one of the leading textbooks in this field. It offers real ways to improve quality of experience for people with learning disabilities in all areas of life.
This new edition brings together a comprehensive and coherent collection of material from eminent authors with a wealth of professional backgrounds and roles. Its contemporary focus reflects practice developments including the impact of changing policy and legislation on the nature and configuration of services.
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Audience
Pre-registration diploma and graduate nursing students of learning disabilities
Paperback, 584 Pages
Published: June 2011
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 978-0-7020-5187-6
Contents
Section 1: Living with learning disabilities
1 The social construction of learning disability
2 Causes of learning disability
3 Eugenics: the creation and maintenance of difference4 Values-based support
5 Ethical issuesSection 2: Implementing values-based support
6 Let me speak - facilitating communication7 Advocacy
8 Personal narrative and life story9 Person-centred strategies for planning
10 Inclusive research: we are the artists of our lives11 Positive risk taking
12 Safeguarding against abuse and harmSection 3: Overcoming challenges to good health
13 Enabling good health14 Physical health
15 Sensory awareness16 Epilepsy
17 Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities18 Challenging behaviour
19 Working with offenders20 Autistic spectrum conditions
Section 4: Facilitating transition across the lifespan21 Working with people to make choices
22 Working with families23 Childhood
24 Leisure and friendships25 Education for children and young people with learning disabilities
26 Employment27 A place to live
28 Sexual and personal relationships29 Growing older: meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities
30 End of Life
