Luiselli, a clinical psychologist associated with a private human services and behavioral health care organization for children, adolescents, and adults with developmental disabilities and other issues, assembles 16 chapters by mental health, special education, and behavior specialists from the US, Canada, and UK who discuss high-risk challenging behaviors in children, adolescents, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and how education, psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, and behavior analysis professionals can intervene effectively. They address self-injurious and aggressive behavior, sexual offending, eating disorders (pica, vomiting, and obesity), and criminal behavior (including discussion of the death penalty), in addition to safe management of therapeutic restraint practices. They focus on how to improve interventions, therapeutic outcomes, and quality of life, and consider person-specific, biological, social, and systems-level influences on behaviors and evidence-based and empirically-supported practices for preventing and treating them, with an emphasis on interventions that can be implemented in the least restrictive settings. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)