This present paper deals with Child Rearing Practices and Anxieties of Parents Children Physical Disabilities. In comparison to previous societies, modern society’s child-rearing practices are vastly different. Physically challenged children seen as a burden by many parents in today’s culture. Disabled not receiving proper care. world, entrusting their impaired children’s care institutions. The...

Aim To compare the frequency of mental retardation with other psychiatric disorders at the Institute for Mentally Disabled Persons "Drin" Fojnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to asses psychosocial condition and necessary support to persons with mental retardation. Methods In this retrospective, descriptive and epidemiologic study neuropsychiatric findings and reports of the Institute's social servi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the cost-effectiveness of community-based mental health care. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Administrative data from Medicaid and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health; primary data from 144 psychiatrically disabled adult Medicaid beneficiaries who lived in Boston, central Massachusetts, and western Massachusetts. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional observational study ...

A 23 year follow up of deaths in a population of mentally disordered patients was carried out, and a typical case history is reported. A quarter (71) of the deaths reported were unnatural, verdicts of suicide or accidental death or open verdicts having been recorded. For men in most age groups the proportion of deaths by suicide was two to three times greater than in the general population in 1...

The fears of 133 boys and girls aged 7 to 19, classified as educable mentally retarded (EMR), trainable mentally retarded (TMR), and specific learning disabled (SLD), were ascertained through self-report data and compared with those of 106 normal children aged 6 to 12. Similar developmental trends were found in all groups, with younger children reporting more unrealistic fears than older childr...

I am indebted to Dr. I. G. Davies, Medical Officer of Health and Professor of Public Health, University of Leeds, for his permission to publish the following article dealing with facts relating to social conditions of mentally handicapped persons in the City. A recent survey of the occupations and home conditions of mentally defective persons in an industrial area of roughly half a million popu...

Individuals who have mental disabilities are more vulnerable to sexual abuse than the general population and even less likely to report the offence. Furthermore they face greater barriers if they wish to seek help, support or prosecution. Where abuse is alleged or suspected, a complainant with a mental disability will often have the capacity to decide whether they wish to undergo intimate foren...

God has gifted human beings with six major power of senses, if any one of these is absent or damaged in such a way that it is unable to perform its function, the person became handicapped. A cross sectional study of 120 mentally retarded children of age 6-18 years was conducted in Faisalabad and Islamabad districts by using convenient sampling technique. The purpose was to study the socio-psych...

This study aims to determine how the experience of parents in caring for mentally disabled children. research method uses a qualitative descriptive phenomenological approach. The results obtained six themes, namely (1). response when their child is said be RM, (2). RM child's birth weight, (3). RM's parenting pattern, (4). Parents' efforts train children's independence, (5). form family support...

th ? AR Sir,?There has grown up a body of law in ls country with regard to the care and education ^ Mentally handicapped children based upon the ^sumption that there are three categories of udren: normal, educationally subnormal, and mentally defective. All who have had anything to do with the cateones regarded as subnormal will know from Perience that the position is far from satisfactory. th'...