Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Service Providers Guide

The continuing drive towards care in the community has made effective assessment of the needs of people with intellectual disabilities more critical than ever. This handbook enables professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities to establish the needs of individuals through systematic assessment and to employ such assessments to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide.
The volume is divided into two main parts. The first consists of conceptual chapters addressing issues on the function of assessment in various behavioral domains. The second part describes selected assessment instruments and strategies that are commercially available or are published in an accessible form. Each of these is considered with respect to function, construction, availability and utility.
The expert contributors to this volume cover the full spectrum of need, including adults with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health difficulties, behavioral problems, also considering those with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and those suspected of developing dementia. The assessment of quality of life is given special consideration, as is assessment for employment.

Spis treści:
Introduction: Assesssment in Perspective (James Hogg and Arturo Langa).
PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT.
Chapter 1: Issues in the Systematic Assessment of Quality of Life (Robert A. Cummins).
Chapter 2: Outside the Box: Assessment for Life and Work in the Community (Patricia Noonan Walsh).
Chapter 3: Interdisciplinary Assessment of People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (Carla Vlaskamp).
Chapter 4: The Assessment of Mental Illness in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Edwin J. Mikkelsen, Lauren R. Charlot and Arturo Langa).
Chapter 5: Issues in the Assessment of Challenging Behaviour (Eric Emerson).
Chapter 6: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend or Are Alleged to Have Offended (Gillian Anderson).
Chapter 7: The Assessment of Dementia in People with Intellectual Disabilites Context, Strategy and Methods (Chris Oliver and Sunny Kalsy).
Chapter 8: Genetic Syndromes and Behavioural Phenotypes (Robert M. Walley).
PART II: STRATEGIES AND INSTRUMENTS.
Chapter 9: Instruments Assessing Quality of Life (Robert A. Cummins).
Chapter 10: Assessment and Employment of People with Intellectual Disabilites (Patricia Noonan Walsh).
Chapter 11: Assessing People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilites (Carla Vlaskamp).
Chapter 12: Commonly Employed Psychopathology Instruments for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Lauren R. Charlot and Edwin J, Mikkelsen).
Chapter 13: Instruments for Assessing Behavioural Problems (Kirk Zimbelman).
Chapter 14: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend or Are at Risk of Offending: Assessing Need and Risk (Gillian Anderson).
Chapter 15: The Assessment of Dementia in People with Intellectual Disabilities Key Assessment Instruments (Sunny Kalsy and Chris Oliver).
Chapter 16: Behavioural Phenotypes: Approaches to Assessment (Robert M. Walley).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
James Hogg is Director of the White Top Research Unit, University of Dundee and Research Professor.
Arturo Langa is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Lead Clinician working for Lanarkshire Primary Care Trust, and Senior Honorary Lecturer at the University of Dundee.

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The continuing drive towards care in the community has made effective assessment of the needs of people with intellectual disabilities more critical than ever. This handbook enables professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities to establish the needs of individuals through systematic assessment and to employ such assessments to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide.
The volume is divi ded into two main parts. The first consists of conceptual chapters addressing issues on the function of assessment in various behavioral domains. The second part describes selected assessment instruments and strategies that are commercially available or are published in an accessible form. Each of these is considered with respect to function, construction, availability and utility.
The expert contributors to this volume cover the full spectrum of need, including adults with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health difficulties, behavioral problems, also considering those with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and those suspected of developing dementia. The assessment of quality of life is given special consideration, as is assessment for employment.