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Risk Assessment in People With Learning Disabilities

C Sellars (Autor)

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196 Seiten
2011 | 2nd Revised edition
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
978-1-119-97593-9 (ISBN)
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Carol Sellars presents a succinct step-by-step approach to defining intellectual impairment (previously called 'learning disabilities') and enumerates the ways of assessing risk and the process of presenting and utilizing the information collected.
Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to demystify the process of assessing risk for people with intellectual impairment (previously called ‘learning disabilities'). * Revisits techniques of risk assessment outlined in First Edition in light of the recent legislative changes, most notably the 2005 Mental Capacity Act * Covers methods of assessing a person's capacity to consent in a range of situations, from the everyday, to complex medical or psychological scenarios * Covers implications of new guidelines issued in relation to the Care Programme Approach (CPA)

Carol Sellars is a retired Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist. She worked for the NHS Trust for more than thirty years with a wide range of client groups with different types of problems.

Foreword: Introduction to second edition. Chapter 1 - Assessing risk in the lives of people with intellectual impairment. Chapter 2 - The problem of predicting risk. Chapter 3 - Assessing risks and establishing care plans. Chapter 4 - Everyday risks. Chapter 5 - Parents with intellectual impairment. Chapter 6 - Self-harm, mental illness and risk. Chapter 7 - Other mental disorders and associated risks. Chapter 8 - Violence and offending in people with intellectual impairment. Chapter 9 - Sex offenders with intellectual impairment. Chapter 10 - Assessment of risk with those you care for: the way forward. References. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.7.2020
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 168 x 244 mm
Gewicht 666 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-119-97593-X / 111997593X
ISBN-13 978-1-119-97593-9 / 9781119975939
Zustand Neuware
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