Learning Disabilities

By Bob Gates and Bob Gates MSc BEd(Hons) DipN RNMH RMN CertEd RNT

A key textbook for pre-registration diploma and graduate nursing students of learning disabilities covering a wide variety of topics relevant not only for nursing courses, but also for care workers, OT's, and other professional and non-professional carers.
Using reader activities, case illustrations, diagrams, figures, tables, and further resources the author guides the reader through this complex and delicate areaContains case studies and reader activity to aid learningFifteen new chapters, covering areas such as: therapeutic interventions; alternative, art, drama and dance and other psychological approaches are presented in detail; relationships in learning disability; chapters on LD in other European countries. Will become the bumper edition on the subject area, the leader in the field.New contributors Subtitle: 'a handbook of care' resurrected to define the reader market.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443071357
• ISBN13: 9780443071355
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"