, This is a review of various Russian investigations concerning the clinical afl pathopsychological characteristics of the brain-damaged child. The Russians do A0 accept as mentally retarded those unsuccessful children who are generally found 1,1 schools for the educationally subnormal. Most of these are either "pedagogical'5 neglected" or have "partial or peripheral difficulties", e.g. defecti...

The mentally retarded subjects show a much higher prevalence of full range of psychiatric disorders than the non-retarded population. Whereas the role of psychotropic drugs in such patients is well discussed, the reports on the use of ECT are scarce. Many psychiatrists dealing with the mentally retarded psychiatric patients are reluctant to consider ECT due to lack of adequate experience. We re...

BACKGROUND The study was carried out with the aim of determining the factors affecting and to evaluate anxiety situations and self-esteem of children with and without mentally retarded siblings. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sampling included 227 healthy children: 108 of them have mental retarded sibling and 119 of them do not have mental retarded sibling. The context of this study consisted of 1...

background adaptation is an important process for humans. children, who are physically or mentally disabled, impose special stresses on their families, parents and in particular on their mothers. objectives this study examines the relationship between the characteristics of mothers who have educable mentally retarded children, and their adaptation based on roy’s adaptation model. patients and m...