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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Mental disability"”.
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Socialinio darbuotojo veiklos turinys, dirbant su psichikos negalią turinčiais asmenimis /
… in the practice of social work with people with mental disabilities, social workers face the problem of providing social services - mentally disabled clients who receive social services feel the need for social services not defined in the legal acts. In this context, it is crucial to analyze what …
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External difficulties facing mentally disabled children in Grace and Love Special School in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
… to investigate the external difficulties facing mentally disabled children. The objectives of the study are to investigate the external difficulties, to assess the rights of mentally disabled children and to explore the coping mechanisms of mentally disabled children. The researcher used …
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Getting to know them : characters labelled as mentally disabled in ten Canadian short stories and novels
This thesis is a study of the treatment of mental disability in Canadian literature. Literature reflects the perceptions and practises of the culture of which it is a part. Radical changes have been made in recent years in the thinking about persons with mental handicaps. The issue of whether the …
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Validation of clinical screens for suicidality and severe mental disorders for jail inmates.
Psychologists and other mental health professionals working in correctional institutions bear the considerable responsibility for identifying, diagnosing, and treating mentally disordered inmates. The importance of these responsibilities has been recognized in recent years because of the burgeoning …
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The Public Primary School Teachers’ Perceptions on Inclusive Education. The case study of selected Public Primary School in Moshi Municipality
The fundamental purpose of this study sought to investigate on the Public primary school teachers perceptions on inclusive education in Kilimanjaro municipality, Tanzania. The specific objectives of the study were, to explore the perceptions of teachers on inclusive education, to assess the …
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Modelling the Demand for Long-term Care to Optimise Local Level Planning
… to those with chronic illness, physical or mental disability. LTC has been widely studied in the literature, in particular due to concerns surrounding how future demographic shifts may impact the LTC system’s ability to cater to increasing amounts of patients not withstanding what the future …
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Evaluation of policy regulating access to South African Social Security Agency's disability grants in Umlazi township
… assistance in the form of older person's grant, disability grant, child support grant, foster care grant, war veteran grant, care dependency grant and social relief of distress. The provision of a disability grant is prescribed in Section 9 of the afore-mentioned Act which sets out the qualifying …
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We cannot fight for what we do not know : information that mothers of disabled children have about the Children's Act (No. 38 of 2005) and the Children's Amendment Act (No. 41 of 2007) in South Africa
… was mothers whose children have a physical or mental disability. The study sample was purposively selected from mothers of disabled children living in a township in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan, in Gauteng Province. A qualitative research approach was used in this study, and a case study design was …
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Predictors of Violence, Traumatic Stress, and Burnout in Sex Work
… access non-commercial sex due to a physical or mental disability or lack of social skills significantly predicted higher levels of violence by clients and higher prevalence of violent clients. More control over working conditions significantly predicted lower levels of traumatic stress, and …
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Caregiving in later life: an attachment explanatory model
… support, marital relationship, physical and mental disability, and income. In order to assess propensity for caregiving, the criterion variable was operationalized as number of care recipients per respondent. The variables that accounted for a statistically significant amount of variation in …
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COGNITIVE ADAPTATION AND THE SCHOOLAGER WITH ASTHMA.
… had a diagnosis of asthma and did not have any mental disability were the convenient sample. Data were collected in the children's homes. Three questionnaires and two interviews were used to measure Taylor's (1983) themes and Relating Behaviors-Cooperating Behaviors. Descriptive statistics were …
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An Exploration of Organisational Culture's Contribution to Job Stress in Cape Town Non-Profit Organisations, using the Culture-Work-Health Model
… (NPOs) working in the discipline of mental health and mental disability. An exploratory, qualitative research design was selected to develop an understanding of organisational culture in Cape Town NPOs. Seven employees from three NPOs, making up the total sample of 21 participants, …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… narrators who prefigure Francie Brady, the mentally ill and murderous villain-hero of Patrick McCabe’s 1992 novel The Butcher Boy. In this first decade of the twenty-first century, Jamie O’Neill and Roddy Doyle look back one hundred years to the fight for Irish Independence and pen …
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Iodine status of children from the Red Sea, and the Nile Valley regions of the Sudan: implications for health and development
… is the leading cause of brain damage and mental disability. Moreover, it is the most common cause of decreased fertility rate, miscarriages, stillbirths and foetal and infant mortality in the developing countries. Contrary to the widely held popular perception, iodine deficiency is not …
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Indiana Special Olympics and Its Portrayals of People with Intellectual Disabilities, 1969-1989
… change society’s negative views of people with mental disabilities by increasing public awareness and societal inclusion of such individuals. In this effort, how ISO depicted people with mental disabilities had significance. This thesis explores ISO’s growth from 1969 to 1989 and argues that ISO …
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Discipline and disorder in English prisons : aspects of policy and resistance 1840-1920
… with regard to gender, age, physical or mental disability will be limited as this thesis is concerned with the prisoner largely in terms of position and status. The reason for examining the prison from the perspective of its internal disturbances is that they often revealed a great deal …
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DISABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND THE MIND: REPRESENTATIONS OF CARE-GIVING AND RECEIVING
Since its beginnings in the 1970s disability activist movement, disability studiesscholarship has traditionally focused on physical disability and, in working to deconstruct the figure of the “cripple” as a symbol of pathos, has shied away from close examinations of pain, suffering, and dependency …
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Performances of an Able, Academic Mind
… with intersectional feminist approaches to disability studies, best exemplified by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and, the phenomenological study of emotions articulated by Sara Ahmed. In doing so, I write a project analyzing the ways in which I have been disabled by the academy, as well as …
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Creating A Comprehensive Supportive Policy That Provides Equal Educational Access For The Mentally Ill Student: A Policy Advocacy Document
… policy supporting the education of students with mental illness disorders. Critical issues of school attendance, credit recovery, reintegration, and staff professional development formed the four parts of the policy statement. An examination of critical issues impacting students with mental …
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Vývoj i-CT frameworku a jeho aplikace pro komunikaci typu ANO/NE
Tato diplomová práce se zabývá problematikou vývoje aplikací pro alternativní a augmentativní komunikaci (AAK) v prostředí speciálního vzdělávání mentálně postižených žáků s poruchami komunikace. Představuje současné problémy vývoje aplikací a navazuje na návrhové principy projektu Počítačové …