teachers often experience burnout and challenges during their active career. different studies have shown that those directly involved with teaching children with special needs are more subject to burnout. due to advance screening tools, more children with autism are now diagnosed and involved in special education. the aim of the present study was to investigate the professional burnout in teac...

A questionnaire survey was conducted in 1991 in order to elucidate depressive state among 352 nursing teachers and guidance workers working in 71 homes for mentally retarded children. The data were analyzed by means of Zung's SDS to study the causative factors in relation to personal attributes, conditions and variables pertaining to work, professional characteristics, and nearby people's expec...

objectives: the present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of multimedia education  for the development of self-help and life skills in educable, mentally retarded students.  methods: this research is an applied one in terms of objective. a pretest and posttest, with a control group, research design for the collection of data also makes it a quasi-experimental one. the statistical popu...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, depression is one of the most prevalent mental diseases to which some individuals like mothers of mentally retarded children are more vulnerable due to their (children's) special condition. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the level of depression and its related factors in these mothers. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 12...

objectives: the objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the ‘physical well-being, health and motor development inventory’ used to assess school readiness in ordinary and mentally retarded pre-school children. methods: a descriptive study examining validity was conducted using random sampling. two hundred students (160 ordinary and 40 mentally retarded children) wer...

The mentally retarded subjects show a much higher prevalence of full range of psychiatric disorders than the non-retarded population. Whereas the role of psychotropic drugs in such patients is well discussed, the reports on the use of ECT are scarce. Many psychiatrists dealing with the mentally retarded psychiatric patients are reluctant to consider ECT due to lack of adequate experience. We re...