Child and adolescent neuropsychiatry services' development is described from early deinstitutionalization, through to rehabilitation, intervention and social inclusion of children with disability. The issues that have changed the services in order to meet the growing mental health problem, and the protection of mental well-being trough developmental years, are then dealt with in detail. Finally...

One of the problems with which mentally challenged children and adolescents are faced in the healthcare systems of the world is that the importance of their problems have often been neglected by decision-makers. 1 The problem looks more severe when we investigate health care services to mentally disable children. Generally, a child's health problem creates an economic burden for families but ca...

Adolescents with a chronic illness or physical disability have a more difficult time separating from parents, achieving a sense of mastery, developing social skills among peers, and achieving a positive body-image than do able-bodied adolescents. To promote attainment of these developmental tasks, Adventure, Etc. was created as a wilderness/urban Outward Bound experience for chronically ill, ph...

Objectives: Any form of disability is considered a critical factor having significant effects on a family. Stress is the main result of such effects on parents. According to the classical procedure, the mothers play a major role as child caregiver, so they experience more stress than other members of the family. The goal of this study was to develop and assess the role of the de-stress training...

An important component in learning is the method. The success or failure of a activity depends on method used. Because it that determines how process carried out classroom. PAI for ABK used by teachers SLB so material presented easy to understand and understand, students can implement their understanding everyday life. This study aims identify analyze children with special needs at Negeri 1 Lom...

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 mash...

Children with mental handicap and other developmental disorders are normally cared for by their families. This represents an important shift from the previous practice when psychiatrists in large hospitals for the mentally handicapped provided total care and organised medical support. The medical and educational needs of such children are now met by resources in the community. This has often me...

The Richard H. Hutchings Psychiatric Center (HPC), located in Syracuse, is a New York State Mental Hygiene Facility providing mental health services to the Central New York Region. At this time the Center primarily serves the 473,000 residents of Onondaga County; however, when fully operational, it will also provide services to the 287,000 residents of surrounding Madison, Oswego, Cayuga, and C...

It has been claimed that a raised blood lead level is a common finding among mentally retarded children and that this is of aetiological significance. One hundred and twenty-three mentally handicapped children of uncertain aetiology, 24 with mongolism, and 73 controls have been examined for lead intoxication. The results indicate that the three groups do not differ significantly as regards bloo...

Sex chromatin studies in institutions for mentally handicapped children show a considerably higher frequency of abnormalities as compared with observations on the general population. The published material is summarized in Table I. The present research was undertaken in order to determine the frequency of possible X chromosome numerical aberrations, by means of a sex chromatin study, in a group...