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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"medical model"”.
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Medical Model Influence in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Counseling Psychology Training Directors' Views
… is influenced by a number of ideologies, models, and paradigms. Among these, the medical model's influence is particularly salient. The ideology of the medical field pervades the theory, research, and practice of psychology and its influence deserves close examination. The few studies in …
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From Ecological Epitome to Medical Model: An investigation into Applications for the use of Daphnia in Heart Science.
… was to determine whether Daphnia might become a model for cardiovascular concentration-response trials. This would provide a high throughput means of testing cardiac therapeutics without resort to small mammal trials. We found Daphnia are inappropriate in this context due to high population …
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Philosophical exploration of transsexuality
… to demonstrate that there is in the current medical model of transsexuality conceptual incoherence. Second, to establish an alternative model for understanding transsexuality: the model of authenticity. The current medical model is based on an assumption that the sexed body and gender …
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Psychological diagnosis, the ‘Package Deal’ and constructions of ASD
… counselling psychology’s relationship to the medical model. It then discusses the importance of considering diagnosis from an individual’s perspective; illustrating how this is often experienced as a ‘package deal’. The benefits of diagnosis, such as access to services and its sense-making …
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Evaluation of the training and continuing education for employment as an emergency medical technician - ambulance
<p>The training of most Emergency Medical Technicians - Ambulance today was conceived in the 1960s using the medical model of diagnoses and treatment. The demands upon the occupation by society, however, go beyond the limits of the original medical model. The medical model, for Emergency Medical …
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Outcomes of Supported Employment for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
… mental illness, but the presence of differing models of rehabilitation contributes to inconsistent levels of service and results. The medical model and the recovery model are two of the most popular and widespread models of rehabilitation currently in use. Research comparing these models is …
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Teen Mothers' Perceptions of Medicalization and the Patient/Provider Relationship
… in studies dealing with the overall issue of medicalization. In an effort to understand the extent to which the medical model of childbirth shapes teens' understandings and experiences of prenatal care, this paper analyzes in-depth interviews with 40 pregnant or parenting African American …
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Towards a New Understanding: Complex Familial Constructs of Autism
… autism. Studies have overwhelmingly used the medical model or the institutional narrative to interpret how autism is understood in families. More recently, a counter-narrative has emerged resisting this medical model. Both narratives, however, simplify the intricate nature of the disability …
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Health promotion in the field of substance misuse in post-Soviet Russia
… in post-Soviet Russia remains fixed within a medical model of health is tested through an analysis of the way in which health promotion is developing in two regions – Saratov and Sverdlovsk oblasts. The relative and changing roles of state, non-state and international actors in the development …
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Disorder: Contemporary Fascism and the Crisis in Mental Health
… new technologies, and the dominance of the bio-medical model of mental health. To understand the relevance of these authors today, this thesis first uses an epistemological approach to locate the bio-medical model as a theory of knowledge, and secondly, a historical approach is used to consider …
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The costing of an occupational therapy service at the secondary level of healthcare in the metropole of the Western Cape
… therapy services do not fit neatly into the medical model of healthcare, funding of such services is at risk when costs are rationalised. This study aimed to determine the costs of the Somerset Hospital occupational therapy service and thereby assist other occupational therapists to undertake …
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CAM Education in California Schools of Nursing
… of the combination of CAM and treatments in the medical model (Sok, Erlen, & Kim, 2004. The NCLEX-RN® test plan, which was revised effective April of 2007, includes complementary and alternative therapies as part of the Basic Care and Comfort section. Students will be required to be familiar with …
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The Binormal Hypothesis of Specific Learning Disabilities
… learning disabilities has its roots in the medical literature of the nineteenth century. According to the medical model the cause of specific learning disabilities are presumed to lie in specific cognitive dysfunctions. This hypothesis predicts two qualitatively distinct types of learner and …
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A Phenomenology of Occupation-Based Hand Therapy
… philosophies of occupational therapy and the medical model have been in conflict within the practice of occupational therapy for more than 60 years. This conflict is especially evident in the hand therapy arena due to the prevalence of the medical model. There is extensive literature outside …
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An Examination of the Experiences and Perceptions of Dyslexic Police Officers in England and Wales
… is underpinned by the principles of the social model of disability (Oliver 1990) and in it, dyslexia is understood not as a stand-alone difference but rather as an aspect of neurodiversity (Cooper 2009) A qualitative and exploratory research strategy was adopted. Data was collected by way of …
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Beyond 'justice vs care': Can the ethic of care coordinate with the ethic of justice to support palliative care?
… represent a dramatic shift from the traditional medical model of physician-directed, institutional-centered health care; What are the guiding principles of palliative care and what are their ethical underpinnings? The ethical principles of autonomy, justice and care will be explored, as well as …
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Confusing culture for clinic: Indigenous shaman-healer as psychopathology
… to remain haphazardly confirmed by a western medical model, based on a non-universal, Euro-centric theories and definitions of disease. That lack of cross-cultural consideration within the Indian Health Service (IHS) has to change in order to provide quality professional care. My intent is to …
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Engaging Clinicians in Cocreating Health
… and decisions made. However, the traditional medical model of consultation can reinforce a power imbalance between clinician and patient, and create paternalistic relationships that reduce patients’ control, leading to their ‘systematic disempowerment’. Cocreating health is about enablement, …
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Exploring factors that contribute to resilience in individuals with disability
To challenge the medical model view of disability, this study will be focused on positive characteristics of individuals with disability that enable optimal human functioning, specifically how the need for cognition and attitudes towards technology relate to resilience in individuals with …
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EXAMINING CLASSROOM-LEVEL INTERVENTIONS FOR STUDENTS WITH ADHD-ASSOCIATED ACADEMIC ISSUES PRE-DIAGNOSIS
… widespread concerns over an overextension of the medical model, this study examined educational treatment of ADHD-linked student issues isolated from other treatments, from discovery of need for intervention to possible referral for special education or medical testing. Data were collected in a …
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