Carol Sellars

Risk Assessment in People With Learning Disabilities (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to demystify the process of assessing risk for people with intellectual impairment (previously called 'learning disabilities').

• Revisits techniques of risk assessment outlined in First Edition in light of the recent legislative changes, most notably the 2005 Mental Capacity Act
• Covers methods of assessing a person's capacity to consent in a range of situations, from the everyday, to complex medical or psychological scenarios
• Covers implications of new guidelines issued in relation to the Care Programme Approach (CPA)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119975755
• Artikelnr.: 38443099

Autorenporträt

Carol Sellars is a retired Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist. She worked for the NHS Trust for more than thirty years with a wide range of client groups with different types of problems.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Introduction to Second Edition vii
Chapter 1 Assessing Risks in the Lives of People with Intellectual
Impairment 1
Chapter 2 The Problem of Predicting Risk 13
Chapter 3 Assessing Risks and Establishing Care Plans 27
Chapter 4 Everyday Risks 47
Chapter 5 Parents with Intellectual Impairment 69
Chapter 6 Self-harm, Mental Illness and Risk 89
Chapter 7 Other Mental Disorders and Associated Risks 103
Chapter 8 Violence and Offending in People with Intellectual Impairment 123
Chapter 9 Sex Offenders with Intellectual Impairment 141
Chapter 10 Assessment of Risk with Those You Care For: the Way Forward 155
References and Suggested Further Reading 167
Index 171