Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation

by Alfred Baumeister

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202362655
• ISBN13: 9780202362656
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"