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Peer reviewedCoulter, David L. – Mental Retardation, 1992
This paper recommends adoption of a new vision of mental retardation prevention and an ecological approach to understanding the causation of mental retardation. The paper concludes that a comprehensive, coordinated, and integrated prevention program is needed that addresses a variety of personal, social, and environmental risk factors and the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Ecological Factors, Environmental Influences, Etiology
Download full textCohen, Robert – 1980
Current economic and political problems and the unclear nature of human services delivery systems create problems for the application of an ecological perspective in planning services for children with emotional disturbances. During conservative periods, the ecological approach, which emphasizes the role of environment, is generally replaced by…
Descriptors: Accountability, Children, Delivery Systems, Ecological Factors
