MENTAL RETARDATION: ITS SOCIAL CONTEXT AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES

Mental Retardation and Its Social Dimensions

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Research in mental health: social etiology versus social consequences.

This article differentiates a social etiology model focused on identifying the social antecedents of one particular mental disorder from a social consequences model concerned with the overall mental health consequences of various social arrangements. In the social etiology model, people with disorders other than the one particular disorder singled out for investigation are implicitly classified...

Expressed Emotion and Social Development in Mental Retardation

The aim of this study was to reveal the relationship between expressed emotion (EE) of key relatives and social development of mentally retarded. 30 children aged between 5-18 years and all 30 children were fulfilling ICD – 10 criteria for mental retardation were taken for the study. One key relative for each mentally retarded children was identified within the age range of 34-45 years. Express...

Transport Poverty and Its Adverse Social Consequences

Transport poverty is an issue that has never fully captured the interests of the transport engineering profession in either the Global North or South. And yet, it is a problem that adversely affects the daily lives of literally millions of people within both geographical spheres. What precisely constitutes transport poverty is not adequately articulated within the academic, policy or infrastruc...