Embarking on a New Century: Mental Retardation at the End of the Twentieth Century

   
 

Edited by Robert L. Schalock, Ph.D., Pamela C. Baker, Ph.D., and M. Doreen Croser

This volume of 18 essays summarizes major public policy and service delivery advancements from 1975 to 2000. These changes can be summarized as a significant shift in many areas -- from services to supports; from passive to active consumer roles; from normalization to quality; and many more. In this new book, youll find Leslie Rubin and Wendy M. Nehring on integrated health care delivery; Robert Dor, Serge Wagner, Isabelle Dor, and Jean-Pierre Brunet on a transformation of service delivery; Sheryl A. Larson, K. Charlie Lakin, and Amy S. Hewitt on direct service professionals; Mary F. Hayden and Tia Nelis on self-advocacy; Cathy Ficker Terrill on the future; and 13 more essays. Dont miss this scintillating collection of insights into how and why we have arrived at our current situation.

No. 235
ISBN 0-940898-86-1
Paperback; 2002; 270 pp.
$49.95 ($42.45 members)

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