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ERIC Number: EJ599252
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-1079-3917
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Comprehensive Lifestyle Support for Adults with Challenging Behavior: From Rhetoric to Reality.
Turnbull, Ann; Turnbull, Rud
Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, v34 n4 p373-94 Dec 1999
The parents of a 31-year-old man with mental retardation, mental illness, and behavioral disorders describe how his relatively independent life style is maintained through comprehensive lifestyle support including friends, home, work, community connections, transportation, and family. Anecdotal accounts illustrate interventions effective with behavior problems resulting from bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. (DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Disorders, Case Studies, Independent Living, Intervention, Mental Disorders, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities, Personal Autonomy, Quality of Life
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Note: Special Conference Issue: Research to Practice in the 21st Century.