| Description |
xvi, 431 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
Mental health assessment -- Assessing the physical/mental health connection -- Family and community support -- What is normal?: Understanding "normal," "usual," and "common," behavior in people with Down syndrome -- Memory -- Communication skills -- Self-esteem and self-image -- Self-talk, imaginary friends, and fantasy life -- The groove and flexibility -- Life span issues: "teenage behavior," isolation, withdrawal, retirement -- Mental illness and its precipitants -- Assessment of mental illness -- Treatment approaches for mental illness -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder, the pace, and obsessional slowness -- Psychotic illness -- Refusal to eat -- Challenging behavior -- Self-injurious behavior -- Tic disorders and repetitive movements -- Austism -- Alzheimer disease |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Down syndrome.
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| Author |
Chicoine, Brian.
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| LC no. |
2006009504 |
| ISBN |
1890627658 |
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9781890627652 |
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