Mental health services for adults with intellectual disability : strategies and solutions / / edited by Nick Bouras and Geraldine Holt

• Pubblicazione: Hove [England] ; ; New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.2
• Soggetto topico: Intellectual disability; Mental health services
• Altri autori: BourasNick HoltGeraldine <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; PART I: Development of specialist mental health services; CHAPTER ONE: The specialist mental health model and other services in a changing environment; CHAPTER TWO: Services for people with intellectual disability and offending behaviour; CHAPTER THREE: An international perspective of mental health services for people with intellectual disability; PART II: Clinical practice; CHAPTER FOUR: Assessment, diagnosis and rating instruments; CHAPTER FIVE: Service use and outcomes ; CHAPTER SIX: Neuroimaging and genetic syndromesCHAPTER SEVEN: The association between psychopathology and intellectual disability; PART III: Training as an integrated component of service delivery; CHAPTER EIGHT: Training professionals, family carers and support staff to work effectively with people with intellectual disability and mental health problems; Online resources; Author index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice.Nick Bouras and Geraldine Holt both have extensive experience in developing and running mental health services and bring together international contributors all with longstanding expertise in the fields of mental health and intellectual disability. They present the current evidence based practice as how people with intellectual disability can be best care
• Titolo autorizzato: Mental health services for adults with intellectual disability
• ISBN: 1-135-14767-1; 1-135-14768-X; 1-282-57007-2; 9786612570070; 0-203-85608-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825199603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Maudsley monographs.