Risk Assessment in People With Learning Disabilities

Carol Sellars

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780470974858
• eBook ISBN: 9781119975762
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to demystify the process of assessing risk for people with intellectual impairment (previously called 'learning disabilities').

• Revisits techniques of risk assessment outlined in First Edition in light of the recent legislative changes, most notably the 2005 Mental Capacity Act
• Covers methods of assessing a person's capacity to consent in a range of situations, from the everyday, to complex medical or psychological scenarios
• Covers implications of new guidelines issued in relation to the Care Programme Approach (CPA)

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface: Introduction to Second Edition
• Chapter 1: Assessing Risks in the Lives of People with Intellectual Impairment
• Chapter 2: The Problem of Predicting Risk
• Chapter 3: Assessing Risks and Establishing Care Plans
• Chapter 4: Everyday Risks
• Chapter 5: Parents with Intellectual Impairment
• Chapter 6: Self-harm, Mental Illness and Risk
• Chapter 7: Other Mental Disorders and Associated Risks
• Chapter 8: Violence and Offending in People with Intellectual Impairment
• Chapter 9: Sex Offenders with Intellectual Impairment
• Chapter 10: Assessment of Risk with Those You Care For: the Way Forward
• References and Suggested Further Reading
• Index