Learning Disabilities and Mental Health
Subtitle: A Nursing Perspective
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: October 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781405106153
Subjects: Psychiatric nursing; Nursing; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Nursing - Mental Health; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; MENTAL ILLNESS; Medical / Mental Health; Learning disabilities; Learning disabled; Mental Disorders; Mental Health
First sentence: The changing patterns of care and the movement away from institutions to community living have laid to rest the myth that the psychological problems suffered by those with learning disabilities were the result of institutionalisation alone and that living in the community would somehow 'remove' or 'cure' such problems.