MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK ASSIGNMENT MALATHI PRIYANKA.R II MSW SUBMITTED ON 02/04/2013 CONTENT TOPICS | PG.NO | * Introduction * Medico-legal issues * Medico-legal issues in medical practice * Labelling a case as medico-legal case * Examples of Medico-legal issues * General guidelines for dealing with medico-legal cases * Precautions to be taken in medico-legal case * Consumer Protection Act and Medical Profession * Patient ’s rights and Consumer Protection
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disabilities or delays may follow different paths of development. Children with mental retardation have been found to pass through typical stages of development‚ such as Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development‚ but at a much slower rate. Burack‚ Hodapp‚ and Zigler (1998) however‚ contrast the idea that slowness is the only characteristic of mentally retarded people to be considered‚ by introducing the study of mental retardation as a “more complex enterprise” (p. 3). Today‚ as a result of recent advancements
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of people apart‚ and this is widely known in society. Mental illness is not something that can be chosen or changed. Instead of helping the mentally ill conform into society people today make sure that everyone knows that they are “different from us”. Daniel Keyes’ “Flowers for Algernon” stresses the intense ridicule society
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University of Phoenix Material Appendix F Autism and Mental Retardation Respond to the following: 1. List the primary features of autism. The primary features of autism are uncommunicative‚ extremely unresponsive‚ rigid‚ repetitive and cannot handle changes. 2. Which explanation for autism is no longer considered valid and lacks research support? The sociocultural view is no longer valid as an explanation. It explains that the caretaker is to blame for the autism
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Donald Dior GSU Dr. Purcell SPED 510 Fall 2011 Abstract There has been a change in the identification of a person experiencing Mental Retardation to the term Intellectual Disability. There are several types of Cognitive Functions from mild to severe that coincide to people who have some form of Intellectual Disability that are viewed. The test of a person IQ is one of the main assessments that are used to diagnose a person experiencing an Intellectual Disability. People with Intellectual
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Atypical Child and Adolescent Development Fall 2011 - Study Guide for Midterm Chapters 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9 Chapter 6 - Conduct Disorder – Be familiar with the following concepts and disorders: • Differentiate conduct disorder from oppositional defiant disorder in terms of age‚ symptoms‚ severity of symptoms‚ age of onset‚ and prognosis.- conduct disorder (childhood) will display one symptom before the age of 10‚ symptoms- repetitive‚ persistent pattern of severe aggressive and antisocial acts: inflicting
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WAGR Syndrome WAGR (Wilms’ tumor‚ Aniridia‚ Genitourinary abnormalities‚ and mental Retardation) Syndrome is a contiguous gene deletion syndrome that is caused by a deletion in chromosome 11. The acronym for the syndrome comes from the various symptoms that are caused by the deletion – wilms’ tumor‚ aniridia‚ genitourinary abnormalities‚ and mental retardation. Wilms’ tumor is a tumor that is found in the kidneys that causes nephroblastoma‚ cancer of the kidneys. Aniridia‚ the absence of the iris
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An example of a disability would be Radios mental retardation not allowing him to care for himself independently. Many people generalize what each disability is but it’s important to know that each disability varies from each person. For example‚ I was astonished to see in this movie Radio walking around town alone. I use to believe that people who have mental disabilities were not allowed to be alone and it was required for them to be always supervised by responsible adults. However‚ this film did
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To educate the parents about mental retardation with a view to arouse consciousness of the special needs of the children and their responsibility towards them. * To counsel and guide the parents regarding the training aspects at home of severely retarded children who are not able to attend the centre. * To organize pre-vocational and vocational programs for the children with mental retardation. * To accelerate the overall development of physical‚ mental‚ social and emotional ability
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the average humans from rare disorders or illnesses which separate them from living a normal life. Did you know one in five Americans experienced some sort of mental illness in 2010‚ according to a new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration? About 5 percent of Americans have suffered from such severe mental illness that it interfered with day-to-day school‚ work or family. My mother who has mentoring an intergraded classroom for nearly 14 years as an early child
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