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Supported Decision-Making
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Supported Decision-Making

  • Categories: Law

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights

  • Categories: Law

Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.

Ableism at Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Ableism at Work

  • Categories: Law

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Ableism at Work: Disability and Hierarchies of Impairment is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

We're Here to Help
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

We're Here to Help

"Guardianship, sometimes called conservatorship, is an ever-growing phenomenon. Some of these arrangements are truly beneficial, but countless others are unwanted, unnecessary, and violate constitutionally protected human rights. Award winning journalist, Diane Dimond, dissects the mysterious, ever-expanding, and complicit cottage industry of individuals who profit off the confinement of others"--

The Disabled Contract
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

The Disabled Contract

  • Categories: Law

Beaudry shows how the social contract fails to take account of the moral status of people with severe intellectual disabilities.

Beyond Guardianship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Beyond Guardianship

In general, guardianship involves a state-court determination that an individual lacks the capacity to make decisions with respect to their health, safety, welfare, and/or property. This Beyond Guardianship report explains how guardianship law has evolved, explores the due process and other concerns with guardianships, offers an overview of alternatives to guardianship, and identifies areas for further study. This report covers people with mental illness or disabilities, to include children populations and aging adult populations Legal standards of incapacity are also explored within this report. Discover more products related to this topic: Physically challenged collection and resources about persons that are disabled Aging resources collection Mental Health collection Childhood & Adolescence collection

Decision Making by Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 573

Decision Making by Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

This book examines theoretical considerations in the study of decision making as well as practical applications in social interpersonal domains for adolescents and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It provides a history of the study of decision making in individuals with IDD and examines emerging views on decision making from a positive psychology perspective. The book explores the role of decision making in self-determination as well as offers global perspectives on the rights and responsibilities of individuals with IDD to engage in independent decision making. It outlines a framework for the study of decision making in individuals with IDD, reviews research th...

Lullabies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Lullabies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

Jonathan Kent is tired of living. A self-absorbed angry man, his drinking and infidelity are destroying the one part of his life he wants to save - his marriage Alone in his car, he now understands that the wife who listened to all his lies will not accept the truth. As he turns the key in the ignition wanting to see his wife one more time, fate catches up with him. Terrified and bleeding, he searches for mercy and understanding. Soon, the agony his mortal body is suffering will come to its inevitable end. Jacob Lansing is tired of suffering. A decorated soldier and a loving husband, his passion to help others once defined his life. But terminal brain cancer has rewritten his dreams for his ...

Civilizing Disability Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Civilizing Disability Society

  • Categories: Law

Investigates the tensions caused by the CRDP as grassroots disability associations attempt to address their local members' needs.

The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 733

The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law

This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.