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Learning Disability: A Life Cycle Approach to Valuing People

Learning Disability: A Life Cycle Approach to Valuing People

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Description
This is a comprehensive, well written and highly informative book that explores, identifies and addresses many of the issues that affect the lives of people with learning disabilities and their family. The book covers many topical and important subjects that are extremely relevant and appropriate to my students course work.
Paul Mills, Senior Lecturer, Suffolk College

An excellent student text with good case studies and exercises to develop students critical thinking. Sandra Fleming, Trinity College Dublin

impressive and comprehensive text Mrs Jean Bell, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Stirling

  • What kinds of transitions and discontinuities in their life experiences do people with learning disabilities and their families face over the life cycle?
  • How can people with learning disabilities and their families be helped to lead more valued, healthy and socially included lives?
  • How best can practitioners and others support people with learning disabilities?
This book adopts a life cycle approach in order to reveal important dimensions in the lives of people with learning disabilities and the effects upon them and their families. It tackles issues about transitions in people?s lives and how services, professionals, advocates, allies and wider communities of interest can support people with learning disabilities in achieving healthy and valued lives.

Different voices are heard in this book, but prominence has been given to the views and experiences of people with learning disabilities and their families. Each major life stage section of the book begins with one such narrative-based chapter, followed by chapters that develop practice, policy and theoretical themes that inform an evidence-based approach to supporting people.

Learning Disability is primarily aimed at student readers entering health and social care professions to work with people with learning disabilities but also appeals as a reference text to professionals and those looking for up-to-date information and ideas relating to people with learning disabilities.

Contributors:: Dorothy Atkinson, Nigel Beail, Christine Bigby, Jane Bloom, Alison Brammer, Jacqui Brewster, Hilary Brown, Lesley Cogher, Helen Combes, Clare Connors, Eric Emerson, Margaret Flynn, Nick Fripp, Linda Gething, Dan Goodley, Peter Goward, Gordon Grant, Chris Hatton, Sheila Hollins, Jill Jesper, Kelley Johnson, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Alex McClimens, Roy McConkey, David McConnell, Fiona Mackenzie, Ghazala Mir, Mark Powell, Raghu Raghavan, Paul Ramcharan, Malcolm Richardson, Bronwyn Roberts, Philippa Russell, Jane Stapleton, Kirsten Stalker, Lesley Styring, John Taylor, Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, Sally Twist, Jan Walmsley, Ada Watson.

Product Details
McGraw Hill / Medical
46340
9780335218264
9780335218264

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Publication date
2005
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
784
Dimensions (mm)
200 x 251
Weight (g)
1674

  • Acknowledgements
    About the Editors
    List of Contributors
    Preface

    Part One:: The Construction of Learning Disability
    Narratives and people with learning disabilities Chapter
    From vagabonds to Victorian values:: the social construction of a disability identity
    The roots of biomedical diagnosis
    Critiques of segregation and eugenics
    Learning disability and the law
    Models of service deliveryEric Emerson
    Maintaining a commitment to quality
    Advocacy, campaigning and people with learning difficulties

    Part Two:: Childhood:: Rights, Risks & Responsibilities
    Children with learning disabilities talking about their everyday lives
    Breaking `bad? news
    Experiences of family care:: bridging discontinuities over the life course
    Promoting healthy lifestyles:: physical and sensory needs
    Communication and people with learning disabilities

    Part Three:: Independence:: Adolescents and the Younger Adult
    Adolescents and younger adults:: narrative accounts
    Independence, reciprocity and resilience
    Managing independent living:: safeguarding adults with learning disabilities against abuse
    Promoting healthy lifestyles ? challenging behaviour
    (Almost) everything you wanted to know about sexuality and learning disability but were always too afraid to ask
    Supporting people with learning disabilities when they come into contact with the criminal justice system
    Promoting independence through work
    Counselling people with a learning disability

    Part Four:: Social Inclusion and Adulthood
    You have to prove yourself all the time:: people with learning disabilities parenting
    Promoting friendships and developing social networks
    Enabling and supporting person-centred approaches
    Culture and ethnicity:: developing accessible and appropriate services for health and social care
    Work, learning & leisure? Only if you are lucky! The journey towards fulfilling lives for people with learning disabilities
    Promoting healthy lifestyles:: mental health and illness
    Making a life in the community:: is intensive personalised support enough?
    Engaging communities of interest

    Part Five:: Citizenship and the Older Adult
    A late picking:: narratives of older people with learning disabilities
    Growing old:: adapting to change and realising a sense of belonging, continuity and purpose
    Promoting healthy lifestyles:: end of life issues Research and emancipation:: prospects and problems

    Index

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