OBJECTIVE This article examines social and occupational disability associated with several DSM-IV mental disorders in a group of adult primary care outpatients. METHOD The subjects were 1,001 primary care patients (aged 18-70 years) in a large health maintenance organization. Data on each patient's sociodemographic characteristics and functional disability, including scores on the Sheehan Dis...

A mentally handicapped child can add something positive and cohesive to many family units. Dr. Joan Bicknell, a child psychiatrist, wants us and the adoption societies to rethink our attitude towards these children and the parents who keep them at home. A young couple wanted to have a family. They Were happily married, with a stable financial background and no history of serious illness in eith...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the dmft-DMFT indexes and the oral hygiene status of 136 individuals attending a special school for the disabled. METHODS Participants were grouped according to disability [Mental Retardation (MR), Cerebral Palsy (CP), Autistic Disorder (AD), Down Syndrome (DS), Other (OTH)] and age [2-6 years (n=24), 7-12 years (50 child...

a bstract    background: one of the acutely fatal and prevalent crises in all societies is acute spinal cord injury. individuals with a spinal cord injury are prone to numerous challenges, perturbation, and acute mental distresses. one of their concerns, often expressed generally and in the form of a complaint, is how people deal with them.  the present study aims to analyze the experiences and...

While disability benefits make up the largest group of claimants in high-income countries, we know surprisingly little about which disabled people are seen as ‘deserving’ benefits, nor whether different countries judge deservingness-related characteristics similarly. This is surprising given they increasingly focus retrenchment, often affirms deservingness ‘truly deserving’ while focusing cuts ...

The authors searched a computerized database of clients registered with the California Department of Developmental Services 1980-1.991. Evaluation was done at one of 21 community-based regional centers which were under contract with the Department to handle all such applicant cases within the state, and submitted data reports (CDERs) at least annually on all new and continuing persons registere...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the over-time effects of physical, psychological and social resources on the incidence of depression in family caregivers of the disabled elderly. Data were collected twice at a one-year interval from 1,141 primary caregivers of a disabled older person in an urban area of Japan using a self-reported questionnaire survey. The questionnaire included phy...

conclusions lack of difference in self-esteem of disabled people in different degrees of disability and in both men and women suggests that disabled people should not be presumed to have low self-esteem, and their different aspects of life should be attended to, just like others. furthermore, studies should be designed and implemented based on psychological, social and environmental factors tha...

Little is known about the long-term outcomes of patients in the public mental health system who are disabled by co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders. This article reports on the 3-year course of 51 patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders in the New Hampshire Dual Diagnosis Study. Participants received integrated dual disorders treatments in the state mental he...