Severe Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours: Designing High Quality Services

by EricEmerson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.44

  Community care for people with challenging behaviours is receiving increasing attention. To provide effective support for such people requires a complex array of managerial and professional skills. This book will provide a guide to the development, organization and support of residential and vocational services for people with severe learning difficulties and challenging behaviours. It should provide a resource for managers and professionals working with challenging behaviours in the NHS, social service departments, local education authorities and the independant sector. The content builds upon and reflects the authors', central involvement in innovative projects to set up community-based services for these clients. It will also aid staff working with these people to develop training materials and post-qualification training schemes. This book should be of interest to managers and professionals working with challenging beaviours in the NHS, social service deapartments, local education authorities.