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Cover Page -- Ameliorating Mental Disability -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1. Definition, Diagnosis, and Classification -- 2. The Multidisciplinary ApproachtoMental Retardation -- 3. Perceptual, Conceptual, and Psycholinguistic Evaluation of the Mentally Retarded Child -- 4. Personality Evaluation -- 5. Speech, Language, and Hearing of the Mentally Retarded -- 6. The Role of Environmental Factors in the Treatment of Institutionalized Mental Retardates -- 7. Psychotherapy and Other Adjustment Techniques with the Mentally Retarded -- 8. Learning Abilities of the Mentally Retarded -- 9. Programmed Instruction for Retarded Children -- 10. Vocational Preparation and Occupation -- 11. Public School Programs for the Mentally Retarded -- 12. The Characteristics,Selection,andTraining of Institution Personnel -- 13. Counseling the Parentsof theRetarded -- Index

"Offers basic consumer health information about barriers faced by people with mental disabilities, causes for disturbances of emotional equilibrium, mental-health services, and rehabilitation with brain stimulation therapies, as well as crisis assistance, social security disability insurance, and compensation. A directory of organizations for people with disabilities."--Provided by publisher"--

In China,the initial epidemiology research on mental disability /mental disorders began in the 50s last century. Although Chinese prevalence of mental disorders was lower than others',with Chinese social reforms and daily life changes,the prevalence of mental disorders /mental disability aggressively increased. Till now,two National Sampling Disability Surveys which provided valuable information on mental disability or other types of disabilities,were conducted in China. For mental disability,although there were some differences between two classification systems used in these two surveys,they were comparable. In a word,facing the challenge of mental disorders /mental disability in China,the government should gradually increase investment on mental health systems,support community prevention of mental disabilities and rehabilitation system,and establish a professional psychiatric and rehabilitation doctors.

This report constitutes a major output of the project Designing Mental Health Law in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Lesotho which was directed by Professor Peter Bartlett, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health. The report provides examples of best practice, suggestions for future legislative reform initiatives and the direction of legislation and policy regarding service provision for people with mental disabilities.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter 1. Introduction: the European Convention on Human Rights and Mental Disability -- Chapter 2. Admission to and Discharge from Psychiatricand Related Institutions -- Chapter 3. Inside Institutions: Institutional Standards and Institutional Controls -- Chapter 4. Medical Treatment -- Chapter 5. Life and Death -- Chapter 6. Legal Capacity, Guardianship and Supported Decision-Making -- Chapter 7. Participation in Society -- Chapter 8. Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights -- Chapter 9. Representing People with Mental Disabilities -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index.

This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the history of disability by investigating the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the 'insane' population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England. He contends that institutional confinement of mentallydisabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care.

The Maryland State Constitution states that its General Assembly may, "regulate or prohibit the right to vote of a person convicted of infamous or other serious crime or under care or guardianship for mental disability." In a single sentence, the link between criminality and mental disability is invoked in order to draw an internal boundary around those who can take part in the project of representative government. Through a close reading of one particular moment in the history of Maryland's disenfranchisement provisions, I show how these restrictions could buttress prevailing racial hierarchies. Delegates to Maryland's nineteenth century constitutional conventions explicitly understood disenfranchisement as a practice that managed the boundaries of full citizenship through the courts' power to determine criminal guilt and mental competence. In defining "exceptions" to the franchise, the delegates were additionally shoring up the increasingly unstable conception of whiteness. The figure of the "free negro" was persistently invoked to do this work, marked through criminality and insanity as civically disabled in order to both reduce the threat that s/he posed to the standing of white workers and to shore up the purity of whiteness itself as innocent, able, and fit to rule. In so far as disenfranchisement is an instrument of racial oppression, it continues to operate racially not just in spite of color-blind liberalism, but also precisely through its ability to disarm claims of racial animus. The norms that drove the adoption of disenfranchisement in the nineteenth century continue to ground these exclusions to the vote, meaning that the ideal figure of the American citizen continues to be compulsorily white, male, heterosexual, and able-bodied. Ending this legacy of social and political hierarchization requires that we remove disenfranchisement provisions, but also move beyond the logic of inclusion, divesting the vote as a location that finalizes, essentializes, and fixes the boundaries of the polity.

This paper explores socio-legal issues within mental disability systems in central and eastern Europe, focusing on the ten countries which have entered into an accession partnership with the European Union (EU) and will become members within the next few years, namely (starting from the north): Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria, countries with a combined population of almost 100 million people. These EU accession countries share a recent history of either being parts of the Soviet Union (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), part of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (Slovenia) or ruled from communist Moscow (the others).