Seminars in the Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities

Contents; List of tables, boxes and figures; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. New patterns of service Mary Lindsey; 2. Applied epidemiology Tom Fryers and Oliver Russell; 3. Genetics and learning disability Walter Muir; 4. Behavioural phenotypes Tom Berney; 5. Children with learning disabilities and psychiatric problems Bruce Tonge; 6. Autism Craig Melville and John Cameron; 7. Communicating with people with learning disability Julia Scotland and W. Fraser; 8. Adults with learning disabilities and psychiatric problems Mike Vanstraelen, Geraldine Holt and Nick Bouras; 9. Psychiatry of learning disability in older people Sally-Ann Cooper; 10. Counselling and psychotherapy Sheila Hollins; 11. Psychological treatment of common behavioural problems Andrew Jahoda and Audrey Espie; 12. Psychotropic medication and learning disability Zed Ahmed; 13. Epilepsy Michael Kerr; 14. Health needs and the organisation of health care Helen Baxter, Christopher Morgan and Michael Kerr; 15. Health morbidity in adults with Down's syndrome Vee Prasher; 16. Forensic psychiatry and learning disability Susan Johnston; 17. Consent and decision-making capacity Anthony Holland; Selective glossary of terms used in molecular genetics; Index.