The Modern Management of Mental Handicap : A Manual of Practice

The aim of this book is to provide parents, staff and others involved with mentally handicapped children and adults with up­ to-date basic information and advice in their management. Methods of care, treatment and management of a heterogeneous group of people such as the mentally handicapped must of necessity include many disciplines if they are to be given an adequate service. This book is an attempt to bring the knowledge and experience of many people together. The size of the book could have been increased to include more detail on other aspects of the subject but this might easily have diminished its value as a convenient reference to as wide a readership as possible, both professional and non-professional. The contents deal essentially with the needs of the severely mentally handicapped and should have an application in most parts of the world. Much of the information and advice on services, and on treatment and management, is based on the experience of specialists working in the United Kingdom, this now being standard practice in most parts of the world. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: Some Information about Mental Handicap....Pages 1-5 Causes and Prevention....Pages 7-13 Genetics and Mental Handicap....Pages 15-28 Medical Treatment of Behaviour Problems in People with Mental Handicap....Pages 29-41 The Behavioural Approach....Pages 43-64 Mental Illness in the Mentally Handicapped....Pages 65-93 Epilepsy....Pages 95-120 Sensory Handicaps....Pages 121-130 Motor Handicap....Pages 131-150 Communication....Pages 151-173 Education of the Severely Mentally Handicapped....Pages 175-187 Training, Employment and Recreational Activities for Adults....Pages 189-202 Parents’ Needs and How to Meet them....Pages 203-227 Assisting the Families of the Mentally Handicapped....Pages 229-239 Play, Toy Libraries and Adventure Playgrounds....Pages 241-247 Residential Provisions for the Mentally Handicapped....Pages 249-253 Sexuality and the Mentally Handicapped....Pages 255-272 The Law Relating to Mental Handicap and to the Mentally Handicapped Offender....Pages 273-299 Back Matter....Pages 301-309