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Treatment with cognitive deficits/TBI/Intellectual Disability

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  • What does it mean to be human? attitudes, values, and your purpose in life
    • Bill, another old story
    • Rights and responsibilities
      • sex, reproduction, marriage
      • property, making bad choices, dangers
  • Talking to people who are different than you.
    • Words: idiot, mental defective, mentally retarded, intellectually disabled
    • How do you know you have been heard?
  • Who do you serve?
    • competency, guardianship, power of attorney
    • first do no harm
      • stay abreast of current knowledge
        • Trisomy 21:  parental nondisjunction, imprinting, Alzheimer’s disease
      • consider some personal effort to broaden your experience

References

Arciniegas, D.B. & Beresford, T.P. (2001).  Neuropsychiatry: An introductory approach. NY, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Cathy Crimmins (2001).  Where Is the Mango Princess? NY, NY: Knopf Doubleday.

Flynn, J.R. (2009).  What Is Intelligence?  NY, NY: Cambridge University Press.

(2012).  Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century.  NY, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Nell, V. (2000).  Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Assessment: Theory and practice.  Mahwah, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

T.A. Salthouse (2010).  Major Issues in Cognitive Aging.  NY, NY: Oxford University Press

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