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Intellectual disability : understanding its development, causes, classification, evaluation, and treatment /
Provides professionals with information on mental retardation disabilities. This work reviews various types of intellectual disabilities, discusses approaches to classification, diagnosis, and appropriate interventions, and provides information on resources that may offer additional help.
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Collection: | Developmental perspectives in psychiatry.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Origins, changing concepts, and legal safeguards
- The classification of intellectual disability
- Epidemiology: who is affected?
- Etiology and assessment
- Understanding and evaluating emotional and behavioral impairment
- Genetics, behavior, and behavioral phenotypes
- A lifespan developmental approach
- Family, behavioral, interpersonal, psychoeducational, pharmacologic and community interventions
- Ethics and spirituality.