Present problems of the mentally handicapped
Krebs, H.
Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 122(51-52): 1849-1854
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0341-3098 PMID: 6780876 Document Number: 166703
At the present time mental handicap has become a multidimensional polydisciplinary task. A structurally static consideration of the pathological anatomic data as an unalterable situation due to cerebral organic deficiency or classifying the handicap as a disease is no longer tenable. Therefore training programs with a joint medical and medical pedagogic approach are becoming increasingly important. Yet there still remains much to clarify in causal - and therapeutic - research. The situation of the parents and sublings in the family with a handicapped child is consequently subject to special problems and psychosocial stress.