Dynamic Relations between Naming and Acting in Adult Mental Retardation

2011 ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Sabine Metta ◽  
Josiane Caron-Pargue
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Dynamic Relations ◽  
Adult Mental Retardation

Reflections on the Current Psychiatric Consultation and Referral Pattern and on the State of the Art, at Oxford Regional Centre, An Adult Mental Retardation Facility

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Russell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Direct Care Staff ◽  
Psychiatric Consultation ◽  
Referral Service ◽  
Consultation And Referral ◽  
Adult Mental Retardation ◽  
Care Problems

This paper investigates the utilization pattern of the psychiatric consultation and referral service provided by the author in an Adult Mental Retardation Facility over a three-year period. The services, their history and locale are described against a background of changes in attitudes towards the problems of the retarded. Rising interest by psychiatrists in the field is placed in context. A spectrum of variables is used for a statistical analysis of factors (Chi2) influencing psychiatric referrals or non-referrals of all new admissions over the period indicated (N = 98). Against a background of increasing normalization and de-institutionalization, the character and composition of the shrinking institutional population has changed. Administration and direct-care staff are now confronted with management and care problems of lower functioning retardates, presenting difficult-to-manage behaviours and severe, often multiple, handicaps. Several factors with resource and care implications are considered, affecting institutionalized as well as community placed retardates, especially in hard economic times. Findings are discussed; recommendations are made concerning the application of scarce psychiatric resources to meet changing psychiatric needs of the population, maximize services and continue community directed normalization efforts. Some caveats are sounded and further research suggested.

Personality and trait disturbances in an adult mental retardation population: significance for psychiatric management*

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Goldberg ◽  
M. Z. Gitta ◽  
A. Puddephatt
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Adult Mental Retardation

scholarly journals A Clinical Study of Adult Mental Retardation

1970 ◽  
Vol 82 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 493-502
Author(s):  
Seigo USUI ◽  
Atsuko SHOHMORI ◽  
Kiyoshi HOSOKAWA
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Clinical Study ◽  
Adult Mental Retardation

Siblings of Children with Mental Retardation Living at Home or in Residential Placement

1998 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Eisenberg ◽  
Bruce L. Baker ◽  
Jan Blacher
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Residential Placement ◽  
At Home

Jansky-Bielschowsky syndrome, a lysosomal disease: First diagnosed cash in Oman

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 632-633
Author(s):  
Line Buhl ◽  
David Muirhead
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Clinical Picture ◽  
Neurological Disorder ◽  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis ◽  
Infantile Form ◽  
Lysosomal Disease ◽  
Juvenile Form ◽  
Progressive Encephalopathy ◽  
Lysosomal Diseases

There are four lysosomal diseases of which the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis is the rarest. The clinical presentation and their characteric abnormal ultrastructure subdivide them into four types. These are known as the Infantile form (Santavuori-Haltia), Late infantile form (Jansky-Bielschowsky), Juvenile form (Batten-Spielmeyer-Voght) and the Adult form (Kuph's).An 8 year old Omani girl presented wth myclonic jerks since the age of 4 years, with progressive encephalopathy, mental retardation, ataxia and loss of vision. An ophthalmoscopy was performed followed by rectal suction biopsies (fig. 1). A previous sibling had died of an undiagnosed neurological disorder with a similar clinical picture.

Phonological Awareness Acquisition in Children With Coexisting Mental Retardation and Behavioral Disorders

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (Fall) ◽  
pp. 194-207
Author(s):  
Julie A. Celek ◽  
Monica Gordon Geller ◽  
Pershey ◽  
Donna M. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Behavioral Disorders
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