Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities
Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities Who are the people we describe as having learning or intellectual disability? This book provides the background information…
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Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities
Who are the people we describe as having learning or intellectual disability? This book provides the background information and understanding required to provide a basis for a truly inclusive and effective service for people with learning disability.In A Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities, Jenny Webb argues that we need a new, clinically-based definition of learning disability and an approach which integrates scientific rigour with humanistic concern for this group of people, who are so often vulnerable to misunderstanding and marginalisation. Many clinical psychologists working in a mental health setting are now encountering people with learning disabilities, in some cases for the first time.
Psychological approaches need to be grounded in an understanding of historical, theoretical and ethical influences as well as a body of