A Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities: Eight Domains and Three Stories

ISBN-13: 9780415601146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 244 str.

Jennifer Webb; Jenny Webb

Opis

Who are the people we describe as having learning or intellectual disability? Many clinical psychologists working in a mental health setting are now encountering people with learning disabilities, in some cases for the first time. This book provides the background information and understanding required to provide a basis for a truly inclusive and effective service for people with learning disability.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part One: Understanding the Context. Chapter One: Defining the Construct of Learning Disability. Chapter Two: the Scientific and Ethical Context. Chapter Three: the Historical Context. Chapter Four: the Professional and Theoretical Context. Chapter Five: the Legal Context. Part Two: Understanding the Person: Eight Domains. Chapter Six: Starting to Understand the Person. Chapter Seven: the Behavioural Domain. Chapter Eight: the Social Domain. Chapter Nine: the Physical Domain. Chapter Ten: the Neurological Domain. Chapter Eleven: the Cognitive Domain. Chapter Twelve: the Attachment Domain. Chapter Thirteen: the Ecological Domain. Chapter Fourteen: the Inner World. Part Three: Making Sense: Three Stories. Chapter Fifteen: Formulating a coherent narrative. Chapter Sixteen: Conclusions . Appendices. Appendix One. Appendix Two. Appendix Three.

O autorze

Jenny Webb has worked with learning disabled people for more than20 years. She is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and is on the British Psychological Society Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists. She can be contacted through the consultancy Agency and Access, which is for the support of people whose intellectual impairments may render them vulnerable. www.agencyandaccess.co.uk jenny.webb@agencyandaccess.co.uk