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The Modern Management of Mental Handicap

A Manual of Practice

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  • © 1980

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Editors:
  1. G. B. Simon

    1. The British Institute of Mental Handicap, UK

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Some Information about Mental Handicap

    • G. B. Simon
    Pages 1-5

  3. Causes and Prevention

    • J. Jancar, G. B. Simon
    Pages 7-13

  4. Genetics and Mental Handicap

    • V. A. Cowie
    Pages 15-28

  5. Medical Treatment of Behaviour Problems in People with Mental Handicap

    • J. A. Corbett
    Pages 29-41

  6. The Behavioural Approach

    • C. Williams
    Pages 43-64

  7. Mental Illness in the Mentally Handicapped

    • J. C. N. Tibbits
    Pages 65-93

  8. Epilepsy

    • B. I. Sacks
    Pages 95-120

  9. Sensory Handicaps

    • G. B. Simon
    Pages 121-130

  10. Motor Handicap

    • D. M. Ricks
    Pages 131-150

  11. Communication

    • M. Walker
    Pages 151-173

  12. Education of the Severely Mentally Handicapped

    • N. B. Crawford
    Pages 175-187

  13. Training, Employment and Recreational Activities for Adults

    • M. Phillips
    Pages 189-202

  14. Parents’ Needs and How to Meet them

    • Leslie Marks
    Pages 203-227

  15. Assisting the Families of the Mentally Handicapped

    • E. Jones
    Pages 229-239

  16. Play, Toy Libraries and Adventure Playgrounds

    • E. Jones
    Pages 241-247

  17. Residential Provisions for the Mentally Handicapped

    • G. B. Simon
    Pages 249-253

  18. Sexuality and the Mentally Handicapped

    • A. Craft, M. Craft
    Pages 255-272

  19. The Law Relating to Mental Handicap and to the Mentally Handicapped Offender

    • R. S. Bluglass
    Pages 273-299

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 301-309
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About this book

The aim of this book is to provide parents, staff and others involved with mentally handicapped children and adults with up­ to-date basic information and advice in their management. Methods of care, treatment and management of a heterogeneous group of people such as the mentally handicapped must of necessity include many disciplines if they are to be given an adequate service. This book is an attempt to bring the knowledge and experience of many people together. The size of the book could have been increased to include more detail on other aspects of the subject but this might easily have diminished its value as a convenient reference to as wide a readership as possible, both professional and non-professional. The contents deal essentially with the needs of the severely mentally handicapped and should have an application in most parts of the world. Much of the information and advice on services, and on treatment and management, is based on the experience of specialists working in the United Kingdom, this now being standard practice in most parts of the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The British Institute of Mental Handicap, UK

    G. B. Simon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Modern Management of Mental Handicap

  • Book Subtitle: A Manual of Practice

  • Editors: G. B. Simon

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7200-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The British Institute of Mental Handicap 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-7202-8Published: 14 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-7200-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 309

  • Topics: Public Health

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