Overview
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Eric Emerson
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Hester Adrian Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Peter McGill
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Centre for the Applied Psychology of Social Care, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, UK
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Jim Mansell
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Centre for the Applied Psychology of Social Care, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, UK
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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The Nature of the Challenge
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- Eric Emerson, David Felce, Peter McGill, Jim Mansell
Pages 3-16
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- Jim Mansell, Peter McGill, Eric Emerson
Pages 69-93
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Service Options
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- David Felce, Kathy Lowe, Siobhan de Paiva
Pages 97-118
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- Peter McGill, Eric Emerson, Jim Mansell
Pages 119-156
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Determinants of Quality
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Front Matter
Pages 207-207
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- Eric Emerson, Richard Hastings, Peter McGill
Pages 209-231
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- Peter McGill, Sandy Toogood
Pages 232-259
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- Jim Mansell, Heather Hughes, Peter McGill
Pages 260-281
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- Martin Knapp, Jim Mansell
Pages 282-296
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Afterword
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- Eric Emerson, Peter McGill, Jim Mansell
Pages 314-315
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Back Matter
Pages 317-325
About this book
This is a timely book. The question of how to help people with challenging behaviour -and how to design and manage services so that staff, families and users feel that what should be done is being done - is at the top of the agenda. Failure to deal com petently with the issue results in disaffection, poor quality ser vices and a less than optimal quality of life for service users. Moreover, the credibility of services for all people with learning disabilities is intimately connected with how we cope with chal lenging behaviour, a point made recently by a Department of Health Working Group chaired by Jim Mansell (Department of Health, 1993). The book is welcome because it draws together what is known about the important questions from a British perspective, although, of course, most of the underlying issues have world wide relevance. The contributors, while all having a good deal of experience and authority, do not put forward simple portrayals of the problems, nor glib solutions, and this is one of the book's major strengths. Clarity in the field of challenging behaviour is sometimes elu sive. What is presented here forces the reader to confront argu ments in a rational and logical fashion.
