ABSTRACT
The authors divide psychotherapeutis procedures and method influencing the patient's behavior during dental treatment into preventive methods and those facilitating treatment and making treatment possible. At the same time they evaluate their effectiveness in a group of 269 "untreatable patients" with a different intellectual level. They found that these methods were successful in almost half the patients when treating preschool and primary school children.
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Child Behavior , Dental Care/psychology , Child , Child Behavior Disorders/therapy , Child, Preschool , Humans , PsychotherapyABSTRACT
By means of a questionnaire addressed to parents the authors investigated training attitudes of 18 mothers of children aged 6-14 years (8 boys and 10 girls) operated during preschool age for congenital cardiac disease. They compared their attitudes with those of healthy children and children suffering from juvenile chronic arthritis. All mothers preferred democratic training with stimulation of the children's activities. They refused authoritative and restricting attitudes. Mothers of children with congenital heart disease did not display excessively centered relations to the child, as compared with other mothers nor exaggerated protectiveness. A problem remains, however, the feeling of self-sacrifice for the child which, contrary to the two other groups, was manifested by 33% of the mothers.
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Attitude , Child Rearing , Heart Defects, Congenital/psychology , Mothers/psychology , Adolescent , Child , Female , Humans , Male , Mother-Child RelationsABSTRACT
The authors submit to the orthopaedic public an abduction apparatus of their own desing for functional treatment of Calvé-Legg-Perthes disease. The apparatus is relatively simple, uses the pantographic system and during gait is preserves very satisfactory immersion of the head of the femur into the acetabulum. Contrary to the lumbal orthesis "Atlanta", it makes it possible to correct also anteversion in the hip joints. In the discussion the authors outline the contemporary therapeutic procedure of their department, the response to comments and finally the view of paediatrivians as regard treatment of the above disease.
