Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Abstract

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.