Alfred A. Baumeister

Ameliorating Mental Disability (eBook, ePUB)

Questioning Retardation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book grows out of the optimistic view that mental retardation can be treated. It views mental retardation primarily as a behavioral problem. A child is diagnosed as retarded primarily because he behaves in certain maladaptive ways, not simply because he may have a chromosomal anomaly. The contributors view any intervention intended to produce adaptive changes in the behavior of the retarded as "treatment." The authors come from the fields of medicine, special education, and speech and hearing, as well as from psychology.

The book is intended to help students and workers in the field apply research findings and theoretical formulations in their appraisal and treatment of mental retardation. The primary emphasis of the book is empirical. While many of the author's suggestions have not been subjected to rigorous experimental scrutiny, almost all have been derived from close examination of the research literature.

A wide diversity of topics are included in this volume. Criteria employed were the relevance of the topic to the understanding and modifi cation of defective behavior; and the subject's popularity or neglect in other sources. Ameliorating Mental Disability will be of interest to medical officers in institutions for the mentally challenged, lecturers giving courses for teachers of the educationally subnormal, and to psychologists, social workers, and teachers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351533010
• Artikelnr.: 48866877

Autorenporträt

Alfred A. Baumeister

Inhaltsangabe

1. Definition
Diagnosis
and Classification
2. The Multidisciplinary Approach to Mental Retardation
3. Perceptual
Conceptual
and Psycholinguistic Evaluation of the Mentally Retarded Child
4. Personality Evaluation
5. Speech
Language
and Hearing of the Mentally Retarded
6. The Role of Environmental Factors in the Treatment of Institutionalized Mental Retardates
7. Psychotherapy and Other Adjustment Techniques with the Mentally Retarded
8. Learning A biliti.es of the Mentally Retarded
9. Programmed Instruction for Retarded Children
10. Vocational Preparation and Occupation
11. Public School Programs for the Mentally Retarded
12. The Characteristics
Selection
and Training of Institution Personnel
13. Counseling the Parents of the Retarded
Index