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Square pegs in round holes
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.1.94, 1994, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines the likely impact of the new incapacity benefit which will be introduced in April 1995.
Measuring willingness to foster children with disabilities and special medical conditions
- Authors:
- ORME John, CHERRY Donna J., COX Mary Ellen
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research, 37(3), 2013, pp.169-178.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The authors present the Willingness to Foster Scale-Disabilities and Medical Conditions (WFS-DMC) and report results concerning its psychometric properties. The WFS-DMC is a new measure designed to accurately and efficiently assess the willingness of parents to foster children with special needs, in particular, disabilities and special medical conditions. The authors tested the WFS-DMC with a national US sample of 298 foster mothers. Internal consistency reliability was excellent. With reference to construct validity, mothers with higher WFS-DMC scores fostered longer, fostered and adopted more children, and requested the removal of a smaller proportion of foster children. Furthermore, the mothers' WFS-DMC scores were unrelated to demographic characteristics. The WFS-DMC could help guide the decision-making process involved in matching children who have special needs with parents willing to care for them. (Edited publisher abstract)
Assessment: a critical component of clinical social work practice with physically ill adolescents
- Author:
- MAILICK Mildred D.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 5(3), 1988, pp.229-239.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Presents a framework for assessment which includes the additional emotional and social variables due to their illness.
Getting physical
- Author:
- SEMPLE Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2012, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
People with severe mental illness die, on average, 20 years younger than the general population, mostly as a result of preventable physical health conditions. The factors that contribute to this include: poor monitoring of physical health; inadequate explanation of medication side effects; and failure by health professionals to take people with mental illness seriously when they raise concerns about their physical health. In a bid to tackle these problems, Rethink Mental Illness has launched a range of resources designed to give mental health professionals the confidence and tools to address the physical health needs of the people they support. These include the Physical Health Check (PHC), a tool designed to improve the monitoring of physical health by encouraging a conversation between the practitioner and the patient about their physical health, identifying any unmet health needs or problems, and deciding together what actions to take. Another resource developed by Rethink Mental Health is free e-learning training for mental health professionals which offers information and advice on some of the key health risks affecting people with mental illness.
Employment and support allowance: work capability assessment by health condition and functional impairment: official statistics
- Authors:
- WHENT Melaine, MAGRATH Owen
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) replaced Incapacity Benefit and Income Support paid on the grounds of incapacity for new claims from 27th October 2008. The ESA was accompanied by a new assessment, the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). This report presents officially monthly data on ESA claims and their subsequent WCA outcomes. Country and regional breakdown of outcomes for initial functional assessments are also provided.
Depression in adults with a chronic physical health problem: recognition and management
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline makes recommendations on the identification, treatment and management of depression in adults aged 18 years and older who also have a chronic physical health problem such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or a musculoskeletal, respiratory or neurological disorder. It states that depression is approximately two to three times more common in patients with a chronic physical health problem than in people who have good physical health and occurs in about 20% of people with a chronic physical health problem, and the presence of a physical illness can complicate the assessment of depression and some symptoms, such as fatigue, are common to both mental and physical disorders.
Housing allocations and medical priority in Scotland
- Authors:
- MASON Steve, BRITAIN Amanda
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office/Great Britain. Scottish Office. Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 114p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Report of a research study arising from concerns that housing allocation to people with health problems was poorly coordinated, subjectively executed and inadequately monitored in Scotland. Uses six Scottish local authority areas as a basis for the study. Contains sections on: a context for medical priority; information, advice and support; application, assessment and the determination of priority; allocation and rehousing; and appeals, monitoring and review.
An unfit test: CAB clients' experience of the medical test for incapacity benefit
- Author:
- WARD Sue
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 78p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report examining the operation of the medical test for incapacity benefit and whether or not it is addressing the concern that some claimants of the benefit it replaced, Invalidity Benefit, were not genuinely incapacitated. Makes recommendations for improving the system of deciding whether a person is fit to work for the purpose of deciding entitlement to benefit.
Fictitious illness in children: the social worker's role in identification and management
- Authors:
- MASTERSON J., WILSON J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 12(4), 1987, pp.21-30.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The "Munchausen by Proxy" syndrome.
Comprehension of pictograms for pain quality and pain affect in adults with Down syndrome
- Authors:
- DE KNEGT Nanda C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 41(3), 2016, pp.222-232.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Background: Adults with Down syndrome (DS) are at risk for age-related painful physical conditions, but also for under-reporting pain. Pictograms may facilitate self-report of pain, because they seem suitable for the global visual processing in DS and for iconic representation of abstract concepts. Method: Participants (N = 39, M age = 41.2) assigned pain qualities to pictograms, rated pain affect levels in facial scales (pictograms vs. drawn faces), and performed cognitive tests. Results: Recognition of all intended pain qualities was above chance level. Pain affect levels of both facial scales were ordered equally well. Both facial scales were preferred equally well. Comprehension of the 3 scales was positively associated with mental age, receptive language ability, and verbal memory. Most participants (74%) had pictograms in their direct environment, mainly to communicate activities or objects. Conclusion: Using pictograms may optimise communication about pain for a subgroup of cognitively higher functioning adults with DS. (Edited publisher abstract)