on those legally certified as feebleminded, and studies in both this and other institutions (5) show consistently that the I.Q.'s of such persons range between about 50 and about 110, with an average between 70 and 80 on such tests as the Wechsler, Stanford-Binet, Progressive Matrices, Porteous Mazes and Kohs Blocks. This I.Q. range extends much higher than might be expected by those who adopt ...

This was a hypothesis-generating exploration of relationships between caregiver training during TBI/polytrauma rehabilitation and caregiver mental health. In this cross-sectional study, 507 informal caregivers to US service members with TBI who received inpatient rehabilitation care in a Veterans Affairs' Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center from 2001 to 2009 completed a retrospective, self-report ...

Mental health legislation has received enormous attention internationally in the era of deinstitutionalization, particularly as societies become more risk averse. The response has been framed within a libertarian tradition and the language is almost exclusively about autonomy and partnership. Apart from risk, patient autonomy has gone from being one of the principles in the discourse surroundin...

rehabilitation approaches for employment of people with severe mental illness. J Disab Policy Stud 1999;10:18-52. 13 Wehman P, Revell WG, Kregel J. Supported employment: a decade of rapid growth and impact. In: Weham P, Revell WG, West M, eds. Supported employment research: expanding competitive employment opportunities for persons with significant disabilities. Richmond, VA: VCU Rehabilitation...

In mental health, the term ‘recovery’ is commonly used to refer to the lived experience of the person coming to terms with, and overcoming the challenges associated with, having a mental illness (Shepherd et al 2008). The term ‘recovery’ has evolved as having a special meaning for mental health service users (Andresen et al 2003) and consistently refers to their personal experiences and expecta...

It has been discovered about a decade ago that autistic people cannot properly understand and reproduce mental states and emotions. In this study we suggest a particular emotion rehabilitation strategy, based on playing with mental simulator that is capable of modeling the mental and emotional states. We present the model of mental world, approach the formalization of emotions, describe interfa...

Prepared by the Research and Training Center for Children’s Mental Health, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. Tampa, FL 33612, (813) 974-4661 For more information, contact [email protected]; Website: http://rtckids.fmhi.usf.edu The Center is jointly funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation ...

Prepared by the Research and Training Center for Children’s Mental Health, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. Tampa, FL 33612, (813) 974-4661 For more information, contact [email protected]; Website: http://rtckids.fmhi.usf.edu The Center is jointly funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation ...