Mental Deficiency

The Religious Coping and Quality of Life in Mothers of Children with Hearing Deficiency

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between religious coping and quality of life of mothers of children with hearing deficiency.  Methods: In this study, 55 mothers of children with hearing deficiency referred to Isfahan Cochlear Implant Center, from June to August 2012, were selected through applying census method. The participants answered the questionn...

A community mental health approach to mental retardation.

Memorandum on Young M.D. Children

Such a system has been in existence for the past two and a half years "1 the Scottish Eastern Hospital Region, being fully described in the current (December) issue of the American Journal of Mental Deficiency, and in the forthcoming Health Bulletin of the Scottish Department of Health. Since hospital service and local authority are concerned with varying aspects of mental deficiency, a clinic ...

Psychological Problems in Mental Deficiency

pr. Sarason has attempted to cover the whole ? ^ of mental deficiency in this book, and this has Evolved deliberate emphasis of certain types and a rather cursory dismissal of others. It is not easy to write such a book for clinical and ^?cial workers, psychiatrists and psychologists, and Wiere the whole emphasis tends to be on the Psychology of mental deficiency it is questionable Primary amen...

Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Physical and Mental Health until Adolescence

BACKGROUND To examine the association of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency with adolescent physical and mental health, as effects of G6PD deficiency on health are rarely reported. METHODS In a population-representative Chinese birth cohort: "Children of 1997" (n = 8,327), we estimated the adjusted associations of G6PD deficiency with growth using generalized estimating equat...

Psychological Problems in Mental Deficiency

dealt mainly with theoretical problems, psychological explanations and classifications. This earlier edition departed most from the traditional approach by including two extensive chapters on projective techniques and psychotherapy. These chapters embody the modern psychological approach to the field of mental deficiency and provoke much stimulating thought on the traditionally accepted I.Q., r...