With the current situation in Belgium as its initial focus, this article will examine the regulatory framework that governs the use of mentally incompetent adults as living organ donors in Europe. Our survey of the national regulation of 22 countries will reveal widely diverging viewpoints, ranging from an absolute prohibition on organ procurement to a barely restricted authorisation to retriev...

Objectives: The birth and presence of an exceptional child in a family can be considered as an undesirable challenging event. This event may be associated with stress, frustration, sadness, and despair. This study aimed to examine the relationship of religious coping styles with general health and psychological well-being among mothers of mentally disabled children. Methods: This cross-section...

Objectives: Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers are encountered with high pressures and stresses and the objective of this study is the investigation of the relationship between the mental pressure of the nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers and their job burnout. Methods: This study was done on 180 nurses of different shifts of Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers of M...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether chronometry is appropriate for monitoring engagement in mental practice by comparing the time taken for people with chronic stroke to mentally and physically practice five tasks. METHOD Eighteen stroke participants mentally and physically rehearsed each task. Time was recorded for each of the three trials per task. RESULTS Partici...

by Margaret Adams. Heinemann. 25s. Work with the mentally subnormal has always demanded a high degree of skill and the failure to recognise this reflects society's attitude to the handicap. This attitude is fortunately in process of being modified and Margaret Adams is to be congratulated on bringing together a team of people who can speak with such authority of the rewarding nature of work wit...

, This is a review of various Russian investigations concerning the clinical afl pathopsychological characteristics of the brain-damaged child. The Russians do A0 accept as mentally retarded those unsuccessful children who are generally found 1,1 schools for the educationally subnormal. Most of these are either "pedagogical'5 neglected" or have "partial or peripheral difficulties", e.g. defecti...

People with mental impairment are so heavily over-represented in prisons and jails that jails have been labeled “warehouses for the mentally ill.” In many parts of the United States, there are more mentally impaired offenders in prisons than in hospitals for the mentally unwell. Offenders laboring with impaired mental functioning are often regarded as being less morally culpable for their crime...

The crucial factor involved in habilitating the mentally retarded, or other individuals, for produc­ tive employment is not, as is often erroneously as­ sumed, the decision concerning the vocation that the client may succeed in, but the position that is taken concerning this unique person. In this re­ gard, an analysis of the habilitation process indicates that at each decision-making point a p...

Incorporating sociological theory into that of psychiatric illness is particularly difficult. It also goes against the grain for psychiatrists who were trained as doctors and had their attention focused on individual differences, rather than on the social system in which the patient is involved. Society, too, in its management of the mentally ill, accepts the individual disease model.