This handbook helps professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities to establish the needs of individuals through systematic assessment and to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide.* A comprehensive handbook for professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities.* Enables these professionals to establish the needs of individuals* Helps them to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide.* Expert contributions include conceptual chapters and descriptions of selected assessment instruments.* Covers the full spectrum of need, including adults with mental health difficulties, behavioural problems, forensic needs and assessment of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and those suspected of developing dementia.

Introduction: Assesssment in Perspective (James Hogg and ArturoLanga).PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT.Chapter 1: Issues in the Systematic Assessment of Quality ofLife (Robert A. Cummins).Chapter 2: Outside the Box: Assessment for Life and Work in theCommunity (Patricia Noonan Walsh).Chapter 3: Interdisciplinary Assessment of People with ProfoundIntellectual and Multiple Disabilities (Carla Vlaskamp).Chapter 4: The Assessment of Mental Illness in Individuals withIntellectual Disabilities (Edwin J. Mikkelsen, Lauren R. Charlotand Arturo Langa).Chapter 5: Issues in the Assessment of Challenging Behaviour(Eric Emerson).Chapter 6: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend orAre Alleged to Have Offended (Gillian Anderson).Chapter 7: The Assessment of Dementia in People withIntellectual Disabilites Context, Strategy and Methods (ChrisOliver and Sunny Kalsy).Chapter 8: Genetic Syndromes and Behavioural Phenotypes (RobertM. Walley).PART II: STRATEGIES AND INSTRUMENTS.Chapter 9: Instruments Assessing Quality of Life (Robert A.Cummins).Chapter 10: Assessment and Employment of People withIntellectual Disabilites (Patricia Noonan Walsh).Chapter 11: Assessing People with Profound Intellectual andMultiple Disabilites (Carla Vlaskamp).Chapter 12: Commonly Employed Psychopathology Instruments forIndividuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Lauren R. Charlot andEdwin J, Mikkelsen).Chapter 13: Instruments for Assessing Behavioural Problems (KirkZimbelman).Chapter 14: People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Offend orAre at Risk of Offending: Assessing Need and Risk (GillianAnderson).Chapter 15: The Assessment of Dementia in People withIntellectual Disabilities Key Assessment Instruments (Sunny Kalsyand Chris Oliver).Chapter 16: Behavioural Phenotypes: Approaches to Assessment(Robert M. Walley).Index.