This new edition revisits the major issues affecting individuals with mental retardation, those personally responsible for their education and well being, and society at large. The text provides up-to-date material on the major dimensions of the disorder - its nature, its causes, and its treatment or management. New topics covered include causation, diagnosis, and treatment of severe maladaptive behaviour disorders observed in mental retardation, including problematic sexual behaviours, and behaviour that is classifiable in terms of formal psychiatric syndromes. In addition, the revised text includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter, and boxed material and appendixes to supplement the content.
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Mental Retardation: Nature, Cause and Management is an easy-to-read review of the many issues and concerns related to mental retardation. Educators, mental health providers, residential program staff, health care providers, administrators, policy-makers, and students are offered a wealth of information related to avariety of topics, including: etiology, impact of MR on individual psychosocial functioning and personality, history and nature of support services for persons with MR, MR & sexuality, and dual diagnosis. Baroff summarizes the relevant research from a variety of disciplines ranging from the genetics and biology to linguistics, psychology, and education. He also provides detailed descriptions of common services, programs, and practical dilemmas encountered by persons with MR and the people who care for them. The 50-page bibliography is, in itself, an important resource.
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This is a book about people-children, youth, and adults who have difficulty in coping with activities of daily life because of impaired general intelligence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
repetitive movement disorders, persons with retardation, individuals with retardation, severer levels, athetoid form, community connections between people, postschool years, children with retardation, retarded youth, profound retardation, retarded parents, adaptive difficulties, mild retardation, normally developing child, moderate retardation, mild intellectual impairment, calendar calculating, retarded population, retarded adults, developmental learning disorders, retarded women, mental retardation, personality model, nonhandicapped peers, low birth weight children Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Head Start, Mary Ann, Public Law, Special Olympics, United States, North Carolina, American Association, American Psychiatric Association, Disabilities Education Act, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Milwaukee Project, Moderate Cognitive Impairment, Baby Doe, Geraldo Rivera, Mental-age Range, New Jersey, Years Self-help, Profound Cognitive Impairment Self-help New!
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repetitive movement disorders, persons with retardation, individuals with retardation, severer levels, athetoid form, community connections between people, postschool years, children with retardation, retarded youth, profound retardation, retarded parents, adaptive difficulties, mild retardation, normally developing child, moderate retardation, mild intellectual impairment, calendar calculating, retarded population, retarded adults, developmental learning disorders, retarded women, mental retardation, personality model, nonhandicapped peers, low birth weight children Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Head Start, Mary Ann, Public Law, Special Olympics, United States, North Carolina, American Association, American Psychiatric Association, Disabilities Education Act, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Milwaukee Project, Moderate Cognitive Impairment, Baby Doe, Geraldo Rivera, Mental-age Range, New Jersey, Years Self-help, Profound Cognitive Impairment Self-help New!
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- Mental Retardation by Journal on 49 pages
- Head Start: The Inside Story Of America's Most Successful Educational Experiment by Edward Zigler on page 226, page 227, and Back Matter
- Social Skills (Applied Research in Mental Retardation,) by Matson on page 314, and page 316
- Mental Retardation (The Developing Child) by Robert B. Edgerton on page 61, and Back Matter
- Mental Deficiency (the Changing Outlook) by Clarke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Mental Retardation: Nature, Cause, and Management by George S. Baroff on 6 pages
- Exceptional Learners: Education and Research from a Global Perspective by Ivan Z. Holowinsky on page 54, and Back Matter
- Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders by Gerhard Falk on page 127, and Back Matter
- Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease and Racism by Kenneth F. Kiple in Back Matter
- Challenging Behaviour: Analysis and Intervention in People with Severe Intellectual Disabilities by Eric Emerson in Back Matter
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