Research Catalog

Title

The Mentally retarded and society : a social science perspective / edited by Michael J. Begab and Stephen A. Richardson.

Publication

Baltimore : University Park Press, [1975]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Begab, Michael J.
• Richardson, Stephen A.
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)
• Rose F. Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development.

Description

xix, 492 pages; 26 cm

Series Statement

Mental Retardation Research Centers series / National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Uniform Title

NICHD-Mental retardation research centers series

Subject

• People with mental disabilities > United States > Congresses
• Children with mental disabilities > United States > Congresses
• Intellectual disability
• Sociology
• Intellectual Disability
• Sociology
• intellectual disability
• sociology
• Intellectual disability
• Children with mental disabilities
• People with mental disabilities
• Geistig behinderter Mensch
• Gesellschaft
• Geistig Behinderter
• United States

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Proceedings of a conference held in Niles, Mich., Apr. 18-20, 1974, sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Rose Kennedy Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Part I. Historical and contemporary issues in mental retardation -- The mentally retarded and society : Trends and issues / Michael J. Begab -- Educational institutions and mental subnormality : Notes on writing a history / Marvin Lazerson -- Public health and mental retardation : New power and new problems / Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser -- Part II. Attitudes and values -- Reaction to mental subnormality / Stephen A. Richardson -- Public, peer, and professional attitudes toward mentally retarded persons / Jay Gotttlieb -- Issues relating to the quality of life among mentally retarded person / Robert B. Edgerton -- Sociocultural factors in educational labeling / Jane R. Mercer -- Background considerations in developing strategies for changing attitudes and behavior toward the mentally retarded / Richard D. Ashmore -- Part III. Social competence and socialization -- Issues in social effectiveness : The case of the mentally retarded / Robert E. Kleck -- Factors that impede the process of socialization / Earl S. Schaefer -- Oral and non-oral representations of communicative and social competence / Aaron V. Cicourel -- Part IV. Forms of family adaptation and intervention -- Family adaptations to severely mentally retarded children / Bernard Farber -- Foster family care for the intellectually disadvantaged child : The current state of practice and some research perspectives / Margaret Adams -- Intervention in infancy : A developmental approach / Howard L. Garber -- Message from home : Findings from a program for non-retarded, low income preschoolers / Phyllis Levenstein -- Part V. Emergent patterns of service for young people and adults -- Epidemiology and evaluation of services for the mentally handicapped / Albert Kushlick -- The changing lives of mentally retarded adults / Arnold Birenbaum -- Vocational adjustment of the mentally retarded / Andrew S. Halpern, Philip L. Browning, Ester R. Brummer -- Advocacy for the mentally retarded : The development of a new social role / Richard A. Kurtz -- Part VI. Social change : Problems and strategies -- Obstacles to developing community services for the mentally retarded / Herbert J. Cohen -- Reforming programs for youth in trouble / Lloyd E. Ohlin -- Legal, legislative, and bureaucratic factors affecting planned and unplanned change in the delivery of services to the mentally retarded / Elizabeth M. Boggs -- Guided societal change and mental retardation / Amitai Etzioni and Stephan A. Richardson.

ISBN

• 083910751X
• 9780839107514

LCCN

75033173

OCLC

• ocm01837653
• 1837653
• SCSB-276629

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library