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Ameliorating Mental Disability - Questioning Retardation (Paperback): Alfred A. Baumeister

Ameliorating Mental Disability - Questioning Retardation (Paperback)

Alfred A. Baumeister

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This book grows out of the optimistic view that mental retardation can be treated. It views mental retardation primarily as a behavioral problem. A child is diagnosed as retarded primarily because he behaves in certain maladaptive ways, not simply because he may have a chromosomal anomaly. The contributors view any intervention intended to produce adaptive changes in the behavior of the retarded as "treatment." The authors come from the fields of medicine, special education, and speech and hearing, as well as from psychology.

The book is intended to help students and workers in the field apply research findings and theoretical formulations in their appraisal and treatment of mental retardation. The primary emphasis of the book is empirical. While many of the author's suggestions have not been subjected to rigorous experimental scrutiny, almost all have been derived from close examination of the research literature.

A wide diversity of topics are included in this volume. Criteria employed were the relevance of the topic to the understanding and modifi cation of defective behavior; and the subject's popularity or neglect in other sources. Ameliorating Mental Disability will be of interest to medical officers in institutions for the mentally challenged, lecturers giving courses for teachers of the educationally subnormal, and to psychologists, social workers, and teachers.

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Imprint: AldineTransaction
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2009
First published: 1967
Authors: Alfred A. Baumeister
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 978-0-202-36265-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the mentally ill
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LSN: 0-202-36265-5
Barcode: 9780202362656

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