Mental retardation

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The Paralympic Games explained by Brittain, Ian

Table of Contents: “…The history and development of the Paralympic Games -- The olympic movement and the Paralympic Games -- The governance of paralympic sport -- Disability and the body -- The broader social issues of disability within society and their impact on sports participation -- Media, marketing and disability sport -- Major issues within the paralympic movement -- The under representation of women and athletes with high support needs at the Paralympic Games -- International perspectives on paralympic participation -- The Special Olympics, intellectual disability and the Paralympic Games.…”
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Participatory qualitative research methodologies in health

Table of Contents: “…-- Addressing ethical issues in PR : the primacy of relationship -- Designing participatory research projects -- Data management, analysis and interpretation -- Drawing conclusions from your research -- Engaging older people in participatory research -- Involving children and youth in participatory research -- Conceptualising inclusive research -- a participatory research approach with people with intellectual disability : paradigm or method? -- Diverse ethno-cultural groups and the use of participatory research -- The relationship between engaged scholarship, knowledge translation and participatory research -- Community-university partnerships : a case study -- Information and communications technologies and the potentials for participatory research…”

Coaching athletes with disabilities by Nagoor Meera Abdullah

Table of Contents: “…Fitness testing: specific guidelines for conducting physical fitness tests for athletes with disabilities -- Coaching track and field athletes with physical, visual and mental disabilities -- Training elements for goalball players -- Training visually-impaired students in track and field events -- Guidelines for talent identification in persons with disabilities -- Fitness testing for wheelchair basketball players -- Fitness testing application for goalball players -- Classification in disability sports and its implications on coaching -- Coaching athletes with disabilities: general principles -- Inclusion and disability sports -- Communication and athletes with intellectual disabilities -- Flexibility exercises and athletes with disabilities -- Exercise for wheelchair bound individuals for activity of daily-living (ADL) -- Heart rate level and wheelchair athletes -- Methods of stretching and strengthening for paralympic powerlifters -- Fun games for boccia beginners -- The use of the mobile phone as a video analysis tool in analysis of the seated javelin throws by wheelchair athletes…”

'Cultural life', disability, inclusion and citizenship moving beyond leisure in isolation

Table of Contents: “…Using Photovoice to listen to adults with intellectual disabilities on being part of the community / Stuart J. …”

Evidence-based management of epilepsy by Schachter, Steven C.

Table of Contents: “…Téllez Zenteno, Lizbeth Hernandez-Ronquillo -- Behavioral therapies in the treatment of adults with epilepsy / Patricia Osborne Shafer -- Herbal remedies in epilepsy / Dana Ekstein -- Treatment of epilepsy and related comorbidities in patients with intellectual disabilities / Mike Kerr, Ivana Dojcinov -- Treatment of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures / Danielle G. …”

Children and language development, impairment and training /

Table of Contents: “…Insights from the intellectual disability field / Bruno Facon and Th�er�ese Bollengier -- Late talkers: children with developmental dysphasia (longitudinal follow-up) / Olga Dlouha -- Early middle ear effusion and central auditory processing at age seven / Dale L. …”
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Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry

Table of Contents: “…V. 1: Neural sciences -- Neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology -- Contributions of the psychological sciences -- Contributions of the social sciences -- Quantitative and experimental methods in psychiatry -- Theories of personality and psychopathology -- Diagnosis and psychiatry: examination of the psychiatric patient -- Clinical manifestations of psychiatric disorders -- Classification in psychiatry -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders -- Pathological and problem gambling: gambling disorder -- Posttraumatic stress disorder -- Somatic symptom and related disorders -- Factitious disorder -- Dissociative disorders -- Normal sexuality and sexual disorders -- Feeding and eating disorders -- Sleep disorders -- Impulse-control disorders -- Adjustment disorders -- Personality disorders -- V. 2: Psychosomatic medicine -- Additional conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention -- Cultural concepts of distress and assessment -- The neuropsychiatry of human aggression -- Special areas of interest -- Psychiatric emergencies -- Psychotherapies -- Biological therapies -- Child psychiatry -- Child psychiatry examination -- Genetics in child psychiatry -- Neuroimaging in psychiatric disorders of childhood -- Temperament: risk and protective factors for child psychiatric disorders -- Intellectual disability -- Specific learning disorder -- Developmental coordination disorder -- Communication disorders -- Autism spectrum disorder and social communication disorder -- Attention-deficit disorders -- Distruptive behavior disorders in children and adolescents -- Feeding and eating disorders of infancy and early childhood -- Tic disorders -- Elimination disorders -- Other disorders of infancy, childhood, and adolescence -- Mood disorders in children and adolescents -- Anxiety disorders in children -- Early-onset psychotic disorders -- Child psychiatry: psychiatric treatment -- Child psychiatry: special areas of interest -- Adulthood -- Geriatric psychiatry -- Public psychiatry -- Psychiatric education -- Ethics and forensic psychiatry -- History of psychiatry -- World aspects of psychiatry -- Appendix A: History of psychiatry table -- Appendix B: Glossary of psychiatry andpsychology terms.…”

Annals of gullibility why we get duped and how to avoid it / by Greenspan, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…-- Gullibility as a theme for Herman Melville -- Othello and other Shakespearean dupes -- Gullibility in religion -- Samson and other Bible stories -- Belief in God and supernatural phenomena -- Satan as a manipulator of the gullible -- Believers in end-of-the world predictions -- The gullibility of those who believe in mediums -- Gullibility in anti-semitism -- Christian Science as a magnet for gullibles -- -- Gullibility in war and politics -- The Trojan Horse and military deception -- Groupthink in the planning of the Vietnam war -- Gullibility in the buildup to the Second Iraq War -- Gullibility on the political right -- Gullibility on the political left -- Many people who accept conspiracy theories are gullible -- Suicide bombers are super gullible -- Spin doctoring and believing semi-lies -- Gullibility in criminal justice -- Gullibility among murder accomplices -- A trial as a test of a jury's gullibility -- Gullibility of lawyers -- Gullibility of crime scare stories -- Gullibile application of redemptive and mental health notions -- Gullibility in the interrogation situation -- Gullibility of child witnesses -- Gullibility in science and academia -- The sokal hoax has exposed the gullibility of scholars -- Gullibility in he art world -- Cold fusion as an example of scientific gullibility -- Academic hiring decisions -- Gullibility among psychotherapists and their clients -- Alternative health practices -- Rasputin and facilitated communication -- Gullibility in vulnerable populations -- False confessions in people with brain damage -- Social vulnerability of young people -- Frail elderly and people with Alzheimer's -- People with intellectual disability -- Gullible crime victims -- Sexual exploitation of people with disabilities -- Gullibility in finance and relationships -- Choice of entertainment and vacation purchases -- Inheritance scams -- Tulipmania and other investment bubbles -- Believing rumors -- People interviewed by journalists -- Gullibility in sexual relationships -- Falling for "April Fool" and other practical jokes -- Believing family members -- Questions about gullibility -- Is gullibility a form of stupidity? …”
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Handbook of positive psychology in schools

Table of Contents: “….] -- Listening to students: moving from resilience research to youth development practice and school connectedness / Bonnie Benard and Sean Slade -- Positive psychology and students with intellectual disabilities / H. Thompson Prout -- Positive psychology and school/community-based youth participatory photography programs / Maryam Kia-Keating -- Child and adolescent health risk behaviors: prevalence and comprehensive prevention and intervention strategies / Robert F. …”
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