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How to break bad news to people with intellectual disabilities a guide for carers and professionals /
This book offers unique and adaptable guidelines that can be used by practitioners to ease the process of breaking bad news to people with intellectual disabilities. It provides effective tips and support that will help social workers, counsellors and caring professionals relay all types of bad news...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
J.Kingsley,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by professor Baroness Sheila Hollins
- Background
- Introduction
- Intellectual disabilities
- What is bad news?
- Breaking bad news : knowledge, skill, and guidelines so far
- Why we need new guidelines for breaking bad news
- Guidelines for breaking bad news
- Overview of the guidelines
- Component 1: building a foundation of knowledge
- Component 2: understanding
- Component 3: people
- Component 4: support
- Using the guidelines
- How can we break the knowledge down into chunks?
- When can we start building knowledge?
- Who can give chunks of knowledge?
- Who should be told?
- How much can someone with intellectual disabilities understand?
- Communicating with people with intellectual disabilities
- Can someone be harmed by receiving too much information?
- Sudden bad news
- What if people disagree about breaking bad news?
- Some further advice
- Examples of the model in practice
- Introduction to the examples
- Example a: Jeremy and Christine have cancer
- Example b: Ahmed and Carol have to move
- Example c: Moira, Ben, and Isabel's friend has dementia
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: Flow chart: a one-page overview
- Appendix 2: Ten guiding questions
- Appendix 3: The mental capacity act
- Appendix 4: Resources
- References.