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Sellars, Carol

Risk Assessment in People With Learning Disabilities

Sellars, Carol - Risk Assessment in People With Learning Disabilities, ebook

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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)

Keywords: awareness; increased; problem; assessment; changes; legislative; decade; past; several; people; implemented; updates; edition; important legislative; disabilities; risk; continuing; stepbystep; assessing; approach; succinct; ways

Author(s)
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2011
Language
en
Edition
2
Imprint
Wiley
Page amount
196 pages
Category
Medicine, Health Care, Mode
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781119975762
Printed ISBN
9780470974858

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