Learning Disabilities: Towards Inclusion, with Pageburst Access

DESCRIPTION

Learning Disabilities: Toward Inclusion (formerly edited by Bob Gates) is one of the leading textbooks in this field. It offers real ways to improve quality of experience for people with learning disabilities in all areas of life.

This new edition brings together a comprehensive and coherent collection of material from eminent authors with a wealth of professional backgrounds and roles. Its contemporary focus reflects practice developments including the impact of changing policy and legislation on the nature and configuration of services.

Printed book plus Pageburst access - you will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst enhances learning by not only bringing world class content to your fingertips but also letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it all in a way that suits you. Pageburst frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching.

KEY FEATURES

• The leading textbook for carers of people with learning disabilities
• A comprehensive overview of the field of learning disabilities care
• Well-written accessible content
• Activities, case studies, diagrams and further resources including useful web links

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• the embedding of key themes across chapters to draw diverse material into an integrated whole. These are: person-centredness, values, the reality of practice, the range of ability, the range of services and national and international perspectives.
• chapters on advocacy, personal narratives and life story, inclusive research, risk, safeguarding, sensory awareness, epilepsy and end-of-life care
• online case studies and activities with critical-thinking questions and 'hot links' to web resources to extend knowledge and understanding thereby facilitating learning
• a fully searchable, customisable electronic version of the text to enable easy access and quick reference

PUBLISHED REVIEWS

No other text matches this edition for comprehensive coverage for student nurses
Nursing lecturer

..this is an extremely useful resource not only to nurses but anyone with an interest in this area
Practising nurse

"Each chapter begins with a list of its contents and ends with references, further reading and excellent additional resources. Navigation is straightforward. The book is excellent value for money for all professionals working in the field."
Nursing Standard :: August 29 :: vol 21 no 51 :: 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Section 1: Living with learning disabilities
• 1 The social construction of learning disability
• 2 Causes of learning disability
• 3 Eugenics: the creation and maintenance of difference
• 4 Values-based support
• 5 Ethical issues

• Section 2: Implementing values-based support
• 6 Let me speak - facilitating communication
• 7 Advocacy
• 8 Personal narrative and life story
• 9 Person-centred strategies for planning
• 10 Inclusive research: we are the artists of our lives
• 11 Positive risk taking
• 12 Safeguarding against abuse and harm

• Section 3: Overcoming challenges to good health
• 13 Enabling good health
• 14 Physical health
• 15 Sensory awareness
• 16 Epilepsy
• 17 Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities
• 18 Challenging behaviour
• 19 Working with offenders
• 20 Autistic spectrum conditions

• Section 4: Facilitating transition across the lifespan
• 21 Working with people to make choices
• 22 Working with families
• 23 Childhood
• 24 Leisure and friendships
• 25 Education for children and young people with learning disabilities
• 26 Employment
• 27 A place to live
• 28 Sexual and personal relationships
• 29 Growing older: meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities
• 30 End of Life

AUTHOR

Edited by Helen Atherton, BSc(Hons), PhD, RNLD, Lecturer in Nursing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK and Debbie Crickmore, BSc(Hons) MSc RNLD, Lecturer in Learning Disability, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull, UK