Social work in mental retardation

Mental Retardation and Its Social Dimensions

Mental Health and Social Work

Expressed Emotion and Social Development in Mental Retardation

The aim of this study was to reveal the relationship between expressed emotion (EE) of key relatives and social development of mentally retarded. 30 children aged between 5-18 years and all 30 children were fulfilling ICD – 10 criteria for mental retardation were taken for the study. One key relative for each mentally retarded children was identified within the age range of 34-45 years. Express...

Psychiatric Social Work in a Mental Hospital

The role of the psychiatric social worker has been described very broadly as social work based on an understanding of psychology for purposes that are primarily therapeutic. In many hospitals this dual function tends to get lost sight of, the p.s.w's services being utilised for solving purely practical problems; her ability to deal with the more difficult cases requiring also internal adjustmen...

Mental Retardation

This small book is the first of a series of occasional papers which are to be published under the auspices of the Institute for Research into Mental Retardation, and its author is the chairman of the Institute's Research Committee. In the preface, it is said to be aimed at an intelligent lay audience and it is suggested that 'it will be read with interest and profit by workers in the field of m...