The aim of this book is to provide parents, staff and others involved with mentally handicapped children and adults with up to-date basic information and advice

Over recent years the policy of isolating and institutionalizing mentally handicapped people has gradually been dismantled and a major shift to community care h

Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education

People with severe and profound intellectual disabilities should have the opportunity to receive psychoanalytic psychotherapy to deal with their emotional suffe

Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million c