Intellectual Disabilities
Toward Inclusion
- 7th Edition - February 15, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Helen Atherton, Debbie Crickmore
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 1 5 0 - 7
This leading textbook (previously known as Learning Disabilities) aims to further the practice of professionals and agencies who support people with intellectual disabilit… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis leading textbook (previously known as Learning Disabilities) aims to further the practice of professionals and agencies who support people with intellectual disabilities. It emphasizes the strengths rather than deficits of people with intellectual disabilities, highlights the crucial role of family and friends, and places individuals firmly at the heart of everything that impacts them.
Intellectual Disabilities: Toward Inclusion
centres on the concepts of respecting the personhood of people with intellectual disabilities, and their rights to holistic health and to live their best lives. Most of the 27 chapters are co-authored by respected international authors, and the content has been fully updated to reflect contemporary policy, legislation and service configuration.This unique text will challenge and reframe typically held views, and provides an international focus that recognizes we have much to learn from the experiences and perspectives of other nations around the world.
- Comprehensive overview of the field – relevant to contemporary practice
- Content organized around three central themes: Who am I?; Maximizing my health; Living my best life
- Well-written and accessible
- Artwork and perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities bring content to life
- Authors from a range of professional backgrounds representing Australia, Austria, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, the UK, and the United States
- Activities, case studies, diagrams and useful web links
- Additional material in an online resource complements reader activities found throughout the text
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Section 1. Who am I?
- Section 1
- Who am I?
- 1. Understanding personhood
- Introduction
- Origins of personhood
- Personhood comes under threat
- Disability models in society
- Personhood, rights and justice
- Conclusion
- 2. The importance of the personal narrative in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities
- Introduction
- What is the personal narrative?
- What is Person-Centred Practice?
- Cornerstones of Person-Centred Practice
- How can the personal narrative facilitate person-centred approaches?
- Working within an ethical framework
- Conclusion
- 3. How can you help me have a choice?
- Introduction
- Limits on choice
- Citizenship: the purpose that guides social invention
- Developing a culture of power-with rather than power-over
- Self-directed supports
- Conclusion
- 4. What’s important to me? Using collaborative and creative approaches to shift the power in assessment
- Introduction
- What is assessment?
- Assessment across the life course
- Communication and assessment
- Getting creative: responsive and collaborative approaches
- Conclusion
- 5. Inclusive communication
- Introduction
- What is communication?
- Challenges in Everyday Communication
- Addressing Communication Difficulties
- Inclusive communication
- Conclusion
- 6. ’They won’t let me go cycling by myself’: challenges of risk taking
- Introduction
- What is risk and risk taking?
- Three illustrations
- Facilitating risk taking: advocacy, trust and communication
- Conclusion
- 7. Self-advocacy and advocacy
- Introduction
- History of self-advocacy
- Self-advocacy and other types of advocacy
- Substitute and supported decision making
- Conclusion
- 8. Safeguarding against abuse and harm
- Introduction
- Background and historical overview
- Definitions and categories of abuse
- Settings of abuse
- Perpetrators of abuse
- The impact of abuse
- Why are people with intellectual disabilities abused?
- Responding to abuse and harm
- Safeguarding – toward inclusion
- Conclusion
- Section 2. Maximising my health
- Section 2
- Maximising my health
- 9. Understanding health
- Introduction
- Understanding the concept of health
- Health challenges
- Key determinants of health
- Advocate, Enable, and Mediate
- Ecological Framework to Optimise Health Outcomes
- Multisectoral Stakeholders
- Conclusion
- 10. Enabling good health
- Introduction
- Principles underpinning health care interventions
- Domains of intervention for improving health care delivery
- Setting health goals: a health action plan
- Conclusion
- 11. Physical health
- Introduction
- Physical disabilities: An overview
- Disorders of movement
- Pain assessment and management
- Nutrition and hydration
- Disorders of eating and swallowing
- Oral health
- Bladder and bowel function
- Skin integrity
- Postural care
- Constipation
- Conclusion
- 12. Empowerment through skill development
- Introduction
- Skills teaching
- Activities of Daily Living
- Personal care needs
- Dressing
- Eating and drinking
- Promoting continence
- Mobility
- Conclusion
- 13. Expanding sensory awareness
- Introduction
- Five basic sensory systems
- Three further sensory systems
- Putting it all together
- Conclusion
- 14. Epilepsy
- Introduction
- What is epilepsy?
- Definition and classification
- Prognosis
- Treatment
- Living (well) with epilepsy
- Genetics in diagnosis
- Conclusion
- 15. Autism spectrum conditions
- Introduction
- What characterises autism?
- Our use of labels
- Developmental change
- Psychological characteristics
- Concurrent conditions
- Life with autism
- How is autism identified?
- What causes Autism?
- Prevalence of autism
- Interventions
- Specific interventions
- Conclusion
- 16. Mental health in people with intellectual disabilities
- Introduction
- What do we mean by the term ‘mental health problems’?
- Using a bio-psycho-social model to understand mental health
- Recognising the signs/symptoms of mental ill health
- Assessing mental health problems
- Conclusion
- 17. Understanding and responding to behaviour
- Introduction
- Definitions and associated issues
- Prevalence and demography
- Causation
- Principles of assessment of challenging behaviour
- Interventions
- Working within an ethical and legal framework
- Conclusion
- 18. Working with people with intellectual disabilities suspected of offending
- Introduction
- Prevalence of intellectual disability in criminal justice services
- The legal and policy framework
- Difficulties faced by people with intellectual disabilities in the Criminal Justice System
- Pathway through the criminal justice system
- Conclusion
- Section 3. Living my best life
- Section 3
- Living my best life
- 19. Working with families
- Introduction
- What Is A Family Caregiver?
- The Impact Of Caregiving
- Working Effectively With Families
- Developing Professional Relationships
- Valuing The Expert
- Understanding Changing Needs
- Conclusion
- 20. Childhood
- Introduction
- Children first
- Early identification and diagnosis
- Family experience
- Transition through childhood
- Keeping children safe
- Conclusion
- 21. Leisure and friendships
- Introduction
- The social status of people with intellectual disabilities
- Promoting social inclusion through leisure
- Definitions of leisure
- Role of services and support staff
- Creating active and social lifestyles
- Opportunities and risks
- Conclusion
- 22. Access to education
- Introduction
- Where should children and young people be taught?
- What should be taught?
- Profound and Multiple Intellectual Disabilities (PMID)
- Transitions and preparing for adulthood
- Recording and assessment of progress
- Working with others
- Conclusion
- 23. Realising employment: Unfulfilled aspirations?
- Introduction
- What is ‘employment’?
- Brief policy context
- Key concepts
- Why real jobs are important
- Supported employment model
- Barriers to employment
- Realities of practice
- Principles for best practice
- Conclusion
- 24. A home of my own
- Introduction
- What does ‘Home’ mean for you?
- Rights and the idea of Home
- From Institutions to Community Living
- Being at home in the community
- Independent Living
- Other key ingredients
- Conclusion
- 25. Sexuality and relationships
- Introduction
- What influences sexual wellbeing?
- Sexual rights and consent
- LGBTQIA experiences
- Gender-based violence and abuse
- Good practice
- Conclusion
- 26. Growing older
- Introduction
- The ageing process
- Physical health
- Mental health and dementia
- Facilitating healthy ageing
- Retirement
- Different service models to support older people with intellectual disabilities
- The role of professionals in identifying and meeting needs
- Looking to the future
- Conclusion
- 27. End of life: holistic approaches to loss, dying & death
- Introduction
- Death as loss
- End-of-life care
- Living with loss
- Bereavement and people with intellectual disabilities
- Conclusion and recommendations
- Index
- Edition: 7
- Published: February 15, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702081507
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Helen Atherton
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Nursing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKDC
Debbie Crickmore
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Learning Disability, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull, UK