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Team approach in rehabilitation and the psychologist's role.

Rusk, Howard A.; Taylor, Eugene J.

Pages: 1 –7

Fundamental to the solution of the complex problems of the disabled individual is the team approach in which the various disciplines—medicine, psychology, sociology, and economics are brought together through the medium of the physician, nurse, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech...

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Psychiatric aspects of physical disability.

Menninger, Karl A.

Pages: 8 –17

The rehabilitation worker should realize that he is treating not only disabled limbs, organs and bodies, but that he is treating the patient's body image of the broken limb, atrophied muscles, blinded eyes or paralyzed body. Just as surely as the psychiatrist does, the rehabilitation worker is...

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The social psychology of adjustment to physical disability.

Barker, Roger G.; Wright, Beatrice A.

Pages: 18 –32

In this chapter, we discuss two important characteristics of the social psychological situation of many physically handicapped persons that are of relevance to individual adjustment, namely devaluation and insecurity. Devaluation of the handicapped is a widespread social fact that arises from the...

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Psychological problems of poliomyelitis.

Seidenfeld, Morton A.

Pages: 33 –45

According to Dublin, poliomyelitis accounts for 5 percent of the disabled males and 10 percent of the disabled females in this country. It is the leading cause of orthopedic impairment among children under the age of 21 (with a prevalence rate of 13.9 per 10,000). A disease with such an incidence...

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Paraplegia.

Berger, Stanley

Pages: 46 –59

One of the most difficult problems in rehabilitation, from both a physical and psychological aspect, is paraplegia. The severity of the paralysis quite incapacitates those areas involved, yet leaves relatively untouched the remainder of the body. Thus there is produced the anomaly of having so...

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Cerebral palsy.

Garrett, James F.

Pages: 60 –67

It is apparent that, in dealing with a client with cerebral palsy, the counselor must be prepared for a person with possible multiple handicaps. He will expect to find a greater incidence of mental retardation among this group than in his general caseload. However, he must not confuse physical...

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Psychological factors in multiple sclerosis.

Harrower, Molly R.

Pages: 68 –79

Although the material in this chapter—as its title states—deals primarily with the psychological factors involved in the care and treatment of multiple sclerotic patients, it may be well to bring together at the outset some "Facts about MS" as they have been succinctly summarized in a recent...

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Acceptance of lossAmputations.

Dembo, Tamara; Ladieu-Leviton, Gloria; Wright, Beatrice A.

Pages: 80 –96

The desired state which we call "acceptance of loss" does not mean becoming reconciled to the unfortunate state. Instead, acceptance of loss means overcoming the feeling that one is an unfortunate person—a process of value change. Before value changes will be discussed, however, we will describe...

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Psychological aspects of tuberculosis.

Harris, Daniel H.

Pages: 97 –111

This chapter discusses psychological and medical aspects of tuberculosis, including its causes and incidence, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment, post-treatment regime, psychological considerations in incidence, resistance to treatment, "the tuberculosis personality", the handling of the patient,...

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