In a cross sectional study the mental health of parents of physically and mentally handicapped preschool children was compared with that of parents of healthy preschool children. The social networks of the parents with handicapped children were also studied to determine factors that might influence psychiatric morbidity. The mothers of the handicapped children showed significantly more psychiat...

The study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of mental disorders, and the requirement of mental health services in Tibet Autonomous Region of China. There was lower industrialization, different culture, and different customs in Tibet. The study revealed that, excluding mental retardation, the prevalence of other mental disorders was significantly higher than in other areas and other ...

SET and the handicapped In your Autumn 1966 issue, you published a letter from Dr. Bailey, of Tone Vale Hospital, Somerset, on the adverse effect of the selective employment tax on the employment of disabled workers. This matter has been discussed by the Social Services Committee of the National Association for Mental Health, and various efforts were made to discover, from different areas, whet...

Current policy and practice directed towards people with learning disabilities originates in the deinstitutionalisation processes, civil rights concerns and integrationist philosophies of the 1970s and 1980s. However, historians know little about the specific contexts within which these were mobilised. Although it is rarely acknowledged in the secondary literature, MIND was prominent in campaig...

Introduction This chapter deals with a major aspect of how care or support is provided to disabled people – by relatives or friends on an informal basis. It is important to preface this discussion by acknowledging the relationship that exists between the level of support disabled people receive from the state and their need to rely on informal sources. It is also important to acknowledge that t...

OBJECTIVE Disabled people have the same right as other people to receive the health care they need, but they sometimes have difficulties to achieve it. In Castilla y Leon it has come into effect a law to guarantee Primary and Secondary Care coordination to provide dental treatment under sedation or anaesthesia to mentally disabled people who need it. Our aim is to evaluate the results of the im...

longer the cure of diseases, the doctor has to make a contribution, along with other professional workers, to the detailed and complex provisions for the development of the innate, or residual, capacities. It is this change which has led to the rapidly increasing medical interest in the growth, education and social training of the mentally handicapped. The main emphasis of this book is on the t...