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Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Service Provider's Guide

James Hogg (Editor), Arturo Langa (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0220-9
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264 pages
February 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction: Assesssment in Perspective (James Hogg and Arturo Langa).

PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT.

Chapter 1: Issues in the Systematic Assessment of Quality of Life (Robert A. Cummins).

Chapter 2: Outside the Box: Assessment for Life and Work in the Community (Patricia Noonan Walsh).

Chapter 3: Interdisciplinary Assessment of People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (Carla Vlaskamp).

Chapter 4: The Assessment of Mental Illness in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Edwin J. Mikkelsen, Lauren R. Charlot and Arturo Langa).

Chapter 5: Issues in the Assessment of Challenging Behaviour (Eric Emerson).

Chapter 6: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend or Are Alleged to Have Offended (Gillian Anderson).

Chapter 7: The Assessment of Dementia in People with Intellectual Disabilites Context, Strategy and Methods (Chris Oliver and Sunny Kalsy).

Chapter 8: Genetic Syndromes and Behavioural Phenotypes (Robert M. Walley).

PART II: STRATEGIES AND INSTRUMENTS.

Chapter 9: Instruments Assessing Quality of Life (Robert A. Cummins).

Chapter 10: Assessment and Employment of People with Intellectual Disabilites (Patricia Noonan Walsh).

Chapter 11: Assessing People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilites (Carla Vlaskamp).

Chapter 12: Commonly Employed Psychopathology Instruments for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Lauren R. Charlot and Edwin J, Mikkelsen).

Chapter 13: Instruments for Assessing Behavioural Problems (Kirk Zimbelman).

Chapter 14: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend or Are at Risk of Offending: Assessing Need and Risk (Gillian Anderson).

Chapter 15: The Assessment of Dementia in People with Intellectual Disabilities Key Assessment Instruments (Sunny Kalsy and Chris Oliver).

Chapter 16: Behavioural Phenotypes: Approaches to Assessment (Robert M. Walley).

Index.

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