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Risk assessment in people with learning disabilities / Carol Sellars.

By: Sellars, Carole Wedel.
Contributor(s): British Psychological Society.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford ; Malden, MA : BPS Blackwell, 2002Description: 168 p.; ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0631235477; 9780631235477.Subject(s): Learning disabilities | Learning disabled -- Care | Risk assessment | Mental retardation -- Complications | Health and Wellbeing | Psychology | Teaching of students with special educational needs | Disability: social aspects | Social welfare & social services | Risk assessmentDDC classification: 616.8588 SEL
Contents:
Assessment of risk in people with learning disabilities: why is it needed? -- The problem of predicting risk -- Assessing risks and establishing care plans -- Everyday risks -- Parents with learning disabilities -- Self-harm, mental illness and risk -- Other mental disorders and associated risks -- Violence and offending in people with learning disabilities -- Sex offenders with learning disabilities -- Assessment of risk with your own clients: the way forward.
Summary: This work arose out of the author's awareness that there was little material relating to the assessment of risks for people with learning disabilities. The guide provides a readily understood explanation of the concept of risk.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book arose out of the author's awareness that there was little material relating to the assessment of risks for people with learning disabilities, even though many care workers and health and social services staff are required to carry out such assessments for their clients.

Sellars provides a readily understood explanation of the concept of risk, and an accessible discussion of the key areas where risks need to be assessed in the lives of people with learning disabilities. It describes an approach to assessing risks that is systematic but relatively simple, and emphasizes the need to see risk assessment as an ongoing process in which all interested parties can consider the potential risks in any situation.

Published in association with the British Psychological Society.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-159) and index.

Assessment of risk in people with learning disabilities: why is it needed? -- The problem of predicting risk -- Assessing risks and establishing care plans -- Everyday risks -- Parents with learning disabilities -- Self-harm, mental illness and risk -- Other mental disorders and associated risks -- Violence and offending in people with learning disabilities -- Sex offenders with learning disabilities -- Assessment of risk with your own clients: the way forward.

This work arose out of the author's awareness that there was little material relating to the assessment of risks for people with learning disabilities. The guide provides a readily understood explanation of the concept of risk.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Assessment of Risk in People with Learning Disabilities: Why is it needed?
  • 2 The Problem of Predicting Risk
  • 3 Assessing Risks and Establishing Care Plans
  • 4 Everyday Risks
  • 5 Parents with Learning Disabilities
  • 6 Self-harm, Mental illness and Risk
  • 7 Other Mental Disorders and Associated Risks
  • 8 Violence and Offending in People with Learning Disabilities
  • 9 Sex Offenders with Learning Disabilities
  • 10 Assessment of Risk with Your Own Clients: The Way Forward
  • References
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Carol Sellars is a Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with experience of working in forensic, neuropsychological and learning disability settings, as well as with adults in primary care. She has experience of assessing risks in a number of clinical settings with a variety of client groups. She currently works for Surrey Oaklands NHS Trust, with people with learning disabilities.
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