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Handbook of Positive Psychology in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Translating Research into Practice
Buch | Softcover
XVI, 383 Seiten
2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-86540-9 (ISBN)
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This handbook examines the wide-ranging applications of positive psychology in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. It discusses the change in perceptions of disability and the shifting use of traditional deficit-based treatments. It presents evidence-based approaches and strategies that promote individuals' strengths and capacities and as well as provide supports and services to enhance quality of life. Chapters address medical and psychological aspects in intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as mindfulness, motivation, physical well-being, and self-regulation. The book also discusses uses of assessment practices in evaluating interventions and client outcomes. In addition, it explores ways practitioners, with positive psychology, can focus on what a person is capable of achieving, thereby leading to more effective approaches to care and treatment.

Topics featured in the Handbook include:

  • Translating the quality of life concept into practice.
  • The Casual Agency Theory and its implications for understanding self-determination.
  • The Mindfulness-Based Individualized Support Plan (MBISP) and its use in providing support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
  • The unique role that friendship plays to people's lives and social well-being.
  • Supported Decision-Making (SDM) as an alternative to guardianship.
  • A positive psychology approach to aging and retirement.

The Handbook of Positive Psychology in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in clinical child and school psychology, behavioral therapy, social work, applied behavioral analysis, recreational therapy, occupational therapy, education, speech and language pathology, psychiatry, clinical medicine, and nursing.


Karrie A. Shogren, PhD, is a Professor of Special Education, Senior Scientist at the Life Span Institute, and Director of the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Kansas. Dr. Shogren has published extensively in the intellectual and developmental disabilities field, and her research focuses on assessment and intervention in self-determination and positive psychology, and the application of the supports model across the lifespan. She is co-Editor of Remedial and Special Education and Inclusion. Michael L. Wehmeyer, PhD, is the Ross and Mariana Beach Distinguished Professor of Special Education and Senior Scientist and Director, Beach Center on Disability, at the University of Kansas. Dr. Wehmeyer's research focuses on self-determination, understanding and conceptualizing disability, the application of positive psychology to disability, conceptualizing and measuring supports and support needs, and applied cognitive technologies. He is the co-editor of American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ejournal, Inclusion. Nirbhay N. Singh, PhD, BCBA-D, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA and CEO of MacTavish Behavioral Health, in Raleigh, NC. His interests include mindfulness, behavioral and psychopharmacological treatments of individuals with diverse abilities, assistive technology, and mental health delivery systems. He is the Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Journal of Child and Family Studies, Mindfulness, and Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Editor of three book series: Mindfulness in Behavioral Health, Evidence-based Practice in Behavioral Health, and Children and Families.

Part 1. Introduction .- Chapter 1. Introduction to Positive Psychology.- Chapter 2. Strengths-Based Approaches to Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Chapter 3. The Supports Paradigm and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Chapter 4. Assessment in the Application of Positive Psychology to Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Part 2. Applications of Positive Psychology in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities .- Chapter 5. Self-Determination.- Chapter 6. Mindfulness.- Chapter 7. Positive Behavior Supports.- Chapter 8. Revisioning Individual Support Plans.- Chapter 9. Quality of Life.- Chapter 10. Social Well-Being and Friendship.- Chapter 11. Problem Solving and Decision Making.- Chapter 12. Exercise, Leisure, and Physical Well-Being.- Chapter 13. Character Strengths.- Chapter 14. Adaptive Behavior.- Chapter 15. Hope.- Chapter 16. Goal Setting and Attainment.- Chapter 17. Supportive Decision Making.- Chapter 18. Assistive Technology.- Chapter 19. Motivation.- Chapter 20. Community Living Skills.- Chapter 21. Career Development and Career Design.- Chapter 22. Supported and Customized Employment.- Chapter 23. Retirement.- Chapter 24. Aging.- Part 3. Future Directions in Research and Practice .- Chapter 25. Translating Research in Practice.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.8.2018
Reihe/Serie Springer Series on Child and Family Studies
Zusatzinfo XVI, 383 p. 22 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 758 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Pädagogische Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Adaptive behavior and disabilities • Aging and disabilities • Assistive technology and DD • Assistive technology and ID • Careers and disabilities • Developmental disabilities and positive psychology • Employment and disabilities • Individual Support Plans and disabilities • Intellectual disabilities and positive psychology • Juvenile justice and disabilities • Mindfulness-based treatments of DD and ID • Positive behavioral supports for DD and ID • Positive psychology and DD • Positive psychology and DD interventions • Positive psychology and ID assessment • Positive psychology and ID interventions • Quality of life and disabilities • Retirement and disabilities • Schools and disabilities • Strengths-based interventions for DD and ID
ISBN-10 3-319-86540-4 / 3319865404
ISBN-13 978-3-319-86540-9 / 9783319865409
Zustand Neuware
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