Quality of life for people with disabilities : models, research and practice

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Quality of life for people with disabilities : models, research and practice

edited by Roy I Brown

Stanley Thornes, 1997

2nd ed

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1st published as "Quality of life for handicapped people". Chapman & Hall , 1988

Includes bibliographical reference and indexes

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This thoroughly revised and updated edition critically looks at the concepts, assessment and practice as they relate to quality of life throughout life in many fields of disability, but with particular reference to intellectual disability. The issues for professional training and practice are evaluated and the benefits of involvement in creative activities are examined.

Table of Contents

  • Quality of life - the development of an idea
  • quality of life through personally meaningful activity
  • a focus on the individual, theory and reality - making the connection through the lives of individuals
  • quality of life - the scope of the term and its breadth of measurement
  • assessing the quality of life of adults with profound disabilities
  • an analysis of the dimensions of quality of life - assessing quality of life
  • developmental systems and narrative approaches to working with families of persons with disabilities
  • quality-of-life issues for children with handicaps
  • an ecological perspective on the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities
  • environmental design and human behaviour
  • change and necessity - creative activity, well-being and the quality of life for persons with a disability
  • human spirituality in relation to quality of life
  • quality of life and professional education
  • the concept of quality of life in 21st-century disability programmes.

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