{"title":"'White handkerchief': a patient of attenuated psychosis syndrome.","authors":"Sachin Arora, Dipesh Bhagabati, Shyamanta Das, Hemendra Ram Phookun, Mythili Hazarika, Shailendra Kumar Talukdar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The case history of a patient with attenuated psychosis syndrome is discussed under the backdrop of controversies. On one hand, there is apprehension regarding diagnostic validity, associated stigma, unnecessary treatment, and ethical dilemmas. On the other hand, there is possibility of primary prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":92682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of rural and community psychiatry","volume":"1 2","pages":"88-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6583808/pdf/nihms-1033548.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37345147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mythili Hazarika, Uddip Talukdar, Sandamita Choudhury, Shyamanta Das
{"title":"The effectiveness of psychosocial and vocational training for mentally challenged in a day care centre.","authors":"Mythili Hazarika, Uddip Talukdar, Sandamita Choudhury, Shyamanta Das","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A growing number of mentally challenged individual are being excluded mainly from the educational process because of a presumed inability to learn.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>The study is aimed at identifying the efficacy of psychosocial and vocational training for mentally challenged in a day care centre.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The sample for the study consisted of 30 clinically diagnosed mentally challenged children (N=30, boy=18, girl=12), who are enrolled in Ashadeep day care centre. Methods employed were a semi demographic questionnaire and Vineland Social Maturity Scale to assess the improvement of the child across the various subscales in the pre post test sessions. Correlation coefficient and t-test was used to compare the profile of the children across both the sessions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Age of onset of therapy and the duration does not have significant effect on the outcome, but 'higher the IQ' more positive outcome can be seen. The subscales do not correlate when it comes to affecting each other. Girls showed much poor outcomes than boys in the self0help general subscale.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study ascertained the fact that education and training of the mentally subnormal child is also possible, and psychosocial and vocational training lead to improving the social competence of the child.</p>","PeriodicalId":92682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of rural and community psychiatry","volume":"1 2","pages":"56-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6980156/pdf/nihms-1034959.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37581554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}