Diversity and Inclusion

This book provides clinicians and medical students with a succinct, evidence-based overview of the symptoms, evaluation, treatment, and management of autism in both daily practice and for ongoing patient support plans.

This book helps APRNs address the mental health needs of this vulnerable population, providing practical guidance on assessment guidelines, intervention, and treatment strategies.

This book is based on the principle and belief that all healthcare professionals regardless of discipline, level of education, or role within the healthcare system have a role in caring for individuals with disability. As such, they need a basic understanding of the issue of disability to provide appropriate, optimal and sensitive healthcare to those with disability.

This book offers practical suggestions for clinicians and researchers who work with people with disabilities in order to be culturally effective in all aspects of assessment, intervention, and scientific inquiry.

This book provides basic consumer health information about barriers faced by people with disabilities, disability rights movement, right to education, housing, employment, voting, access to medical care and transportation, as well as Social Security disability insurance, tax exemption, coverage option, and compensation.

This book delves into the challenges of health and wellness for people with mental illness--summarizing the research on mortality and morbidity in this group as well as information about the status quo on wellness.

This book provides authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all registered intellectual and developmental disabilities nurses are expected to competently perform, regardless of role, population, specialty, and setting.

This book provides an overview of the types of disability that limit an individual's physical functioning, mobility, dexterity, and stamina, either as a structural or functional impairment, along with information on how to find government and local disability programs and resources.

This edition is clear and concise, packed with written summaries of developmental and behavioral issues for all pediatric clinicians and other healthcare professionals.