Citizens With Mental Retardation
Download and Read Citizens With Mental Retardation full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Citizens With Mental Retardation ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Lawrence A. Kane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Download The Legal Rights of Citizens with Mental Retardation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is the formal presentation of the issues discussed at the Second National Conference on the Legal Rights of Citizens with Mental Retardation. A relationship between the community and its citizens with mental retardation is discussed extensively in the first section of the book. Other sections of the book are devoted to key litigation and legislation for the rights of citizens with mental retardation, law as it pertains to newborns with severe handicaps, advances in education and rehabilitation, and future strategies for advocacy. A few of the noted contributors include Carl R. Halpern, Dean of the CUNY Law School, Professor Robert A. Burt of Yale University, and Professor Robert H. Mnookin of Stanford University. This book is designed as a basic reference for advocates and others concerned with the mentally retarded.
Author | : United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Mental health laws |
ISBN | : |
Download Citizens with Mental Retardation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Martha A. Field |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674036840 |
Download Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Engaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, these decisions are consistently challenged, regulated, and outlawed. This book is a comprehensive study of the American legal doctrines and social policies, past and present, that have governed procreation and parenting by persons with mental retardation. It argues persuasively that people with retardation should have legal authority to make their own decisions. Despite the progress of the normalization movement, which has moved so many people with mental retardation into the mainstream since the 1960s, negative myths about reproduction and child rearing among this population persist. Martha Field and Valerie Sanchez trace these prejudices to the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show how misperceptions have led to inconsistent and discriminatory outcomes when third parties seek to make birth control or parenting decisions for people with mental retardation. They also explore the effect of these decisions on those they purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is a sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it describes.
Author | : Jack A. Stark |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1461237580 |
Download Mental Retardation and Mental Health Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In late 1985, The President's Committee on Mental Retardation (PCMR) spon sored a National Strategy Conference on Mental Retardation and Mental Health in Washington, D.C. The purpose of this conference was to bring together our nation's leadership in the fields of mental retardation and mental health in order to delineate the state of the art relative to the diagnosis, care, and treatment of citizens with mental retardation/mental illness, as well as to chart a national course for the support and integration of citizens with these challenging needs into the confluence of family and community life. The President's Committee on Mental Retardation recognized that citizens with these needs constitute one of the most underserved and, at times, forgotten segments of the population. With this in mind, the PCMR called together govern mental, professional, and parental representatives from across the nation to define the nature and extent of the problem, programs, and services that promise hope for substantive improvement in the quality of life of citizens with mental retardation/mental illness.
Author | : United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation |
Publisher | : U. S. Department of Health & Human Services |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Download Report to the President Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Mental health laws |
ISBN | : |
Download Citizens with Mental Retardation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2015-10-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309376882 |
Download Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2013, about 50% were disabled primarily due to a mental disorder. An increase in the number of children who are recipients of SSI benefits due to mental disorders has been observed through several decades of the program beginning in 1985 and continuing through 2010. Nevertheless, less than 1% of children in the United States are recipients of SSI disability benefits for a mental disorder. At the request of the Social Security Administration, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children compares national trends in the number of children with mental disorders with the trends in the number of children receiving benefits from the SSI program, and describes the possible factors that may contribute to any differences between the two groups. This report provides an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and the levels of impairment in the U.S. population under age 18. The report focuses on 6 mental disorders, chosen due to their prevalence and the severity of disability attributed to those disorders within the SSI disability program: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. While this report is not a comprehensive discussion of these disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children provides the best currently available information regarding demographics, diagnosis, treatment, and expectations for the disorder time course - both the natural course and under treatment.
Author | : Carolyn M. Cherington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Download New Neighbors Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : R. C. Scheerenberger |
Publisher | : Brookes Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download A History of Mental Retardation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Texas. Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 198? |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Toward Better Services for the Mentally Ill and Mentally Retarded Citizens of Texas ... a Special Report from the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle