Cross-Cultural Quality of Life : Enhancing the Lives of People with Intellectual Disability.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Section I: The Culture of Quality of Life -- Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Quality-of-Life Concept -- Chapter 2: The Emergence of a New Moral Community -- Chapter 3: The Journey is the Reward -- Section II: Quality of Life at the Microsystem Level -- Chapter 4: People Speaking for Themselves -- Chapter 5: Personal Involvement and Empowerment -- Chapter 6: Family Quality of Life in Argentina -- Section III: Quality of Life at the Mesosystem Level -- Chapter 7: Outcomes Evaluation -- Chapter 8: Aligning Supports Planning Within a Quality-of-Life Outcomes Framework -- Chapter 9: Continuous Quality Improvement -- Chapter 10: Organizational Transformation -- Section IV: Quality of Life at the Macrosystem Level -- Chapter 11: A Focus on System-Level Outcome Indicators -- Chapter 12: The Supports Paradigm -- Chapter 13: Positive Psychology and a Quality-of-Life Agenda -- Chapter 14: Changing Service Delivery Systems: An Example from Community Living-British Columbia -- Chapter 15: Human Rights and Quality-of-Life Domains: Identifying Cross-Cultural Indicators -- Chapter 16: The Evolution of Quality-of-Life Perspectives in the Developing Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa -- Section V: The Cross-Cultural Quality-of-Life Agenda -- Chapter 17: The Global Perspective on the Concept of Quality of Life -- Chapter 18: The Role of a Quality-of-Life Theory in a Quality-of-Life Agenda -- Chapter 19: Setting the Cross-Cultural Quality-of-Life Agenda to Enhance the Lives of People with Intellectual Disability -- References -- Glossary -- Subject Index -- Back Cover.

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