Learning Disability Today
A Handbook
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2013
253 pages
978-1-908066-76-3 (ISBN)
Description
This revised third edition examines the current issues of those using and delivering services and support for people with learning disabilities.
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Steven Carnaby
Learning Disability Today
Examines Current Issues for Those Using and Delivering Learning Disability Services and Support, Reflecting Learning Outcomes for QCF Qualifications
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12/2011
3rd Edition
Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Ltd
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- About the contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1: Setting the scene
- Chapter 1: The bigger picture: Understanding approaches to learning disability
- Chapter 2: In context: Policy and legislation
- Chapter 3: Putting the person first: Implementing a person-centred approach to support
- Chapter 4: In safe hands: Safeguarding people with learning disabilities
- Chapter 5: Taking risks: Assessing and managing risk with people with learning disabilities
- Section 2: Developing people
- Chapter 6: Between you and me: Communicating effectively with people with learning disabilities
- Chapter 7: Whose choice? Self-directed support and personalisation
- Chapter 8: Keeping fit, feeling well: Enabling and supporting people with learning disabilities to access healthcare
- Chapter 9: Looking for opportunities: Person-centred active support
- Chapter 10: Intimate lives: Sexuality and people with learning disabilities
- Section 3: Shaping lives together
- Chapter 11: Confrontation or communication? Supporting people whose behaviour challenges us
- Chapter 12: Looking through a different lens: Supporting people with autistic spectrum conditions
- Chapter 13: Getting to know you: Working with people with profound or profound and multiple learning disabilities
- Chapter 14: Family matters: Working with parents with learning disabilities
- Chapter 15: A healthy mind: Mental health and people with learning disabilities
- Chapter 16: A different perspective: Supporting people with learning disabilities who develop dementia
