Overview
- Synthesizes a broad range of research, legal concerns, and clinical practices defining the field of intellectual disabilities
- Addresses issues of staffing, report writing, caregiving, and agency administration
- Describes causes and prevalence of intellectual disabilities, innovative treatments, client protections
- Discusses assessment and treatment options for comorbid physical disorders (e.g., cerebral palsy, epilepsy)
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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Table of contents (58 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophy of Care
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Front Matter
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Parent/Professional Issues
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Front Matter
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Client Protections and Innovations
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Keywords
- Aggression and intellectual disability
- Assessment and treatment of intellectual disabilities
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and ID
- Comorbidities and intellectual disorders
- Compliance and ID
- Down Syndrome and intellectual disability
- Dual diagnosis and intellectual disabilities
- Environmental toxins and ID
- Epilepsy, seizures, and intellectual disabilities
- Feeding and intellectual disabilities
- Functional assessment of intellectual disabilities
- Genetics and intellectual disability
- Informed consent and intellectual disability
- Intellectual disabilities and pica
- Legal issues and intellectual disability
- Report writing and intellectual disabilities
- Restraint, seclusion and intellectual disability
- Self-injurious behavior (SIB) and intellectual disorders
- Substance abuse and intellectual disabilities
- Vocational training and ID
About this book
Topics featured in this handbook include:
- Informed consent and the enablement of persons with ID.
- The responsible use of restraint and seclusion as a protective measure.
- Vocational training and job preparation programs that assist individuals with ID.
- Psychological and educational approaches to the treatment of aggression and tantrums.
- Emerging technologies that support learning for students with ID.
- Key sexuality and relationship issues that are faced by individuals with ID.
- Effective approaches to weight management for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The Handbook of Intellectual Disabilities is an essential reference for researchers, graduate students, clinicians and related therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, developmental psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, child and adolescent psychiatry, and special education.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Intellectual Disabilities
Book Subtitle: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice
Editors: Johnny L. Matson
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20843-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20842-4Published: 19 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20845-5Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20843-1Published: 03 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 1133
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Pediatrics, Social Work