BACKGROUND communicative functions used by language therapists and patients. AIM to analyze the communicative functions used by language therapists and patients of the autistic spectrum. METHOD the communicative functions expressed by six therapists in interaction with six patients each were analyzed, constituting 36 profiles of communicative functions expressed by the dyad therapist-patien...

No agreement has been reached about what constitutes a satisfactory norm for the remedial therapy services. In geriatric medicine recommended norms vary from 0-26 to 0-5 trained physiotherapists and from 0-27 to 0-4 trained occupational therapists per thousand population aged 65 and over, with a corresponding number of therapy aides.'-4 In the light of the rapid increase in the numbers of very ...

Clinicians' own internal resources for understanding relationships--that is, their attachment organizations--have been found to influence the process and outcome of treatment. The current study addressed whether the attachment organizations of novice couple and family therapists were associated with couples' experiences of their therapists, therapeutic alliance, session impact, and emotionally ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Increasing evidence suggests that musculoskeletal disorders are common in workers in the United States health care industry. Physical therapists, who commonly treat patients with these disorders, are also at risk for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMD) in the upper limbs and low back. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of WMD during a 12-mo...

Studies in Europe indicate that some ethnic minorities have higher rates of mental disorders and less favorable treatment outcomes than their counterparts from majority groups. To date, efforts regarding training to reduce disparities have mainly focused on ethnocultural competences of therapists, with less attention paid to other aspects of diversity, such as sex/gender and socioeconomic statu...