Rheumatic Fever
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 6 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott introduces the nature and chief manifestations of rheumatic fever He contends that but for the possible ...
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The Heart, with Special Reference to Rheumatic Carditis
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 5 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter Winnicott describes the extremely difficult problem of diagnosis of active rheumatic carditis, along with a ...
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The Diagnosis of Chorea
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
In this paper, Winnicott notes that typical chorea is easily diagnosed by any physician who has previously seen a case. Not all cases, he argues, are typical, and, owing to the seriousness ...
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The biopsychosocial approach: a note of caution
George Davey Smith
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter provides a critique of whether the biopsychosocial model is useful in understanding aetiological factors in chronic diseases. It illustrates the arguments by referring to ...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders
Rachel Fein, Amy Goetz, and Shannon McKee
in Pediatric Health Conditions in Schools: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Children, Families, and Educators
Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders include a range of disorders that may affect children and adolescents with varying symptoms and levels of severity. This chapter presents a description of GI ...
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When, If Ever, Is It Ethical to Do Research in Developing Countries That Could Not Be Done Ethically in Developed Countries?
Lainie Friedman Ross
in Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach (2 ed.)
In this chapter, three studies performed in the 1990s in three developing countries focused on three neonatal infectious diseases are discussed. The studies were (a) a randomized, ...
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Active Heart Disease
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 8 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott discusses the exclusion of the diagnosis of active heart disease. He states that a child with a normal life ...
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Health Education Through Broadcasting
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
In this essay, Winnicott discusses his opinion of the uses of the broadcast media to promote health education in terms of psychology, and not just in terms of matters of physical health or ...
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Treatment of Mental Disease by Induction of Fits
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 2, 1939-1945
In this essay, Winnicott takes on the popular treatment of mental disease by induction of fits from a psychoanalytic standpoint, asking what the idea of being given fits or of having a fit ...
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Remediable or preventable social factors in the aetiology and prognosis of medical disorders
Michael Marmot
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter reviews the role of social factors in disease incidence. It outlines data suggesting that social gradients affect differences in morbidity and mortality and that these change ...
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Using the International Classification of Diseases System (ICD-10)
Michael C. Roberts and Spencer C. Evans
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 13 discusses the use of the International Classification of Diseases System (ICD-10) for the diagnosis, treatment, and reporting of human disease and health problems, including ...
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Facial Nerve Paralysis, Associated with Fits
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
In this case, Winnicott presents the family history of a seven-year-old, one of twins suffering from facial nerve paralysis associated with fits. ...
Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
Peter White (ed.)
The biopsychosocial model is an approach to medicine which stresses the importance of a holistic approach. It considers factors outside the biological process of illness when trying to ...
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Cardiovascular Disorders: Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Acquired Cardiovascular Disease
Lyla E. Hampton, Abigail C. Demianczyk, and Casey Hoffman
in Pediatric Health Conditions in Schools: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Children, Families, and Educators
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common birth defects in the United States, affecting approximately 1% of births per year, with most children surviving into adulthood. ...
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Hematologic/Oncologic Disorders and HIV
Jennifer L. Harman, Megan L. Wilkins, and Niki Jurbergs
in Pediatric Health Conditions in Schools: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Children, Families, and Educators
Schools across the country serve children with a variety of health-related conditions, some which are hematological disorders (i.e., related to blood or bone marrow). Of these, some are ...
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Cardiovascular disease
Derek W. Johnston
in Science and Practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Chapter 14 explores the role of behavioural medicine in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It discusses stress management in the treatment of primary hypertension, coronary heart ...
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Abscess in Frontal Lobe: Post-Mortem Findings in Case Shown at a Previous Meeting of the Section with Elizabeth O’Flynn
Donald W. Winnicott and Elizabeth O’Flynn
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Winnicott and O’Flynn present the case of a six-year-old at death, who had been under observation at the Queen’s Hospital for Children for several years. Besides the odd complaints from ...
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Case Studies in Clinical Psychological Science: Bridging the Gap from Science to Practice
William O'Donohue and Scott O. Lilienfeld (eds)
Case Studies in Clinical Psychological Science demonstrates in detail how the clinical science model can be applied to actual cases. It presents dialogues between leading clinical ...
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A Contextual Approach to Dementia Care in Alzheimer’s Disease
Christina Garrison-Diehn, Clair Rummel, and Jane E. Fisher
in Case Studies in Clinical Psychological Science: Bridging the Gap from Science to Practice
Chapter 11 covers a contextual approach to dementia care in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and includes a case history and background, caregiver coaching, medical status, key principles and core ...
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Meditation and physical health
Linda E. Carlson
in The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice
This chapter provides a review of research on meditation training for people living with a variety of chronic medical conditions, including cancer, chronic pain conditions, fibromyalgia, ...
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