Handbook on Quality of Life for Human Service Practitioners

Download or read book Handbook on Quality of Life for Human Service Practitioners written by Robert L. Schalock and published by Amer Assoc on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities. This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and current volume on the subject, the Handbook contains a unique and practical model of quality of life that human service professionals can use to develop services and evaluate outcomes of programs. Two international experts simplify quality of life into 8 factors that can be applied to programs in education; physical health; mental and behavioral health; mental retardation and intellectual disabilities; aging; and family services. The Handbook is based on a review of international literature from 1985-2000 and contains over 50 pages of references.