Handbook of Dual Diagnosis
Assessment and Treatment in Persons with Intellectual Disorders
Editors: Matson, Johnny L. (Ed.)
Free Preview- Examines comorbid behavior problems and mental health disorders in persons with intellectual disabilities (ID)
- Discusses dual diagnosis and ethics, diagnostic systems, mental health disorders, challenging behaviors, and genetics
- Explores clinical issues (e.g., services, education, risk factors, functional assessment)
- Addresses a broad range of disorders in persons with ID (e.g., anxiety, depression, ASD, ADHD, dementia)
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- About this book
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This handbook addresses behavior problems and mental health disorders in persons with intellectual disabilities. It provides an overview of the history of dual diagnosis and related theories, ethics, diagnostic systems, mental health disorders, and challenging behaviors. The handbook examines general clinical issues, such as the effects of cognitive performance on the choice of assessment and treatment methods, service delivery systems, education models, risk factors, functional assessment, and structured interviews. Chapters provide a much-needed reference for practitioners and practitioners in training. The applied focus of the book continues with assessment/diagnosis sections of mental health disorders, and challenging behaviors. In addition, chapters describe treatments for discrete mental health and behavior problems, such as intellectual disabilities, severe psychopathology, autism, ADHD, substance abuse, and aggression.
Topics featured in this handbook include:- Genetic disorders and dual diagnosis.
- Assessment of anxiety in persons with dual diagnosis.
- Aging with intellectual disabilities.
- Feeding problems and assessment in individuals with dual diagnosis.
- Pica in individuals with intellectual disability.
- Treatment of social skills in dual diagnosis.
The Handbook of Dual Diagnosis is an essential reference for researchers, graduate students, clinicians and related therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, developmental psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, pediatrics, and special education.
- About the authors
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Johnny L. Matson, Ph.D., is Professor and Distinguished Research Master in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A. He has also previously held a professorship in psychiatry and clinical psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of more than 800 publications including 41 books. He served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the journals Research in Developmental Disabilities (Elsevier) and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Elsevier) and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Springer).
- Table of contents (38 chapters)
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History of Dual Diagnosis
Pages 1-9
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The Classification of Mental Disorders: Dual Diagnosis in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Pages 11-31
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Challenging Behaviors and Dual Diagnosis
Pages 33-56
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Genetic Disorders and Dual Diagnosis: Building Clinical Management on Etiology and Neurocognition
Pages 57-76
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Effects of IQ and Adaptive Behavior on Assessment and Treatment in Dual Diagnosis
Pages 77-94
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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Handbook of Dual Diagnosis
- Book Subtitle
- Assessment and Treatment in Persons with Intellectual Disorders
- Editors
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- Johnny L. Matson
- Series Title
- Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-46835-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-46835-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-46834-7
- Series ISSN
- 2192-922X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 698
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
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