Clark / Griffiths Learning Disability and other Intellectual Impairments

Meeting Needs Throughout Health Services
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69789-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Learning Disability and other Intellectual Impairments is the firstbook of its kind to explore the similarities and parallels betweenthe needs of people with various types of intellectual impairmentsas they encounter health services. It not only looks at the sharedissues from a bio-psycho-social perspective, but also discusses thetransferable skills that a practitioner can develop working acrossthese groups. It identifies the key skills and knowledge thatprofessionals need in order to work with intellectually impairedpatients whether they are in the hospital or at home.
Rather than just focusing on people with learning disabilities,this text attempts to break down barriers and look at some of theissues associated with care and treatment of people who haveintellectual impairment for a variety of reasons, includingacquired brain injury, dementia and long-term mental health issueswhere cognition has been affected. Learning Disability and otherIntellectual Impairments is suitable for health care practitionersat all levels who work with people who have intellectualimpairments in their work and who wish to further develop theirskills and knowledge to care for this neglected client group.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Louise

Griffiths, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors.
Contributors.
Foreword.
1 AN INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT (Louise L.Clark and Peter Griffiths).
2 MEETING THE HEALTH NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUALIMPAIRMENT (Steve Higgins and Mary O'Toole).
3 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION (Garry Diack and HowardCohen).
4 PRIMARY CARE SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUALIMPAIRMENT (Louise Barriball, Allan Hicks, Howard Cohen and LizLewry).
5 TRANSITIONS IN THE AGEING POPULATION (Theresa Wiseman,Karen Lowton and Ian Noonan).
6 THE OLDER ADULT, INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT AND THEDEMENTIAS (Emma Ouldred and Catherine Bryant).
7 EMERGENCY AND URGENT HOSPITAL-BASED CARE (Ian Noonanand Karen Lowton).
8 ADMISSION TO ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (MaryO'Toole, Mike Reid and Rob Winterhalder).
9 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL ISSUES (Rob Winterhalder).
10 CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR (Michael Kelly).
11 CONSENT AND CAPACITY (Alison Hobden and SimonMills).
12 THE FUTURE OF SERVICES FOR INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT(Peter Griffi ths, Rob Winterhalder, Louise L. Clark and AllanHicks).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Louise L. Clark is Lecturer in Intellectual Impairment and LearningDisability in The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing andMidwifery at King's College London.
Professor Peter Griffiths is Director of England's NationalNursing Research Unit at King's College London. He is deputy editorof the International Journal of Nursing Studies and an associateeditor of the journal Evidence Based Nursing