Research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health aims to develop a group therapy programme that can be used by psychologists to treat the thousands of people every year who develop PTSD after traumatic car accidents, according to claims specialist YouClaim.
“Group therapy makes sense for a lot of PTSD patients,” said psychologist Dr Gayle Beck, a director of the Motor Vehicle Accident Clinic in Buffalo, New York.
Children at risk of exclusion from school could have autistic behavioural traits, according to new research.
The study, published in the April issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, suggests that up to a third of children who are at risk of being excluded from school for disruptive behaviour could have undiagnosed social communication problems of an autistic type.
Craniofacial surgery is very much a special interest that has emerged out of neurosurgery, maxillofacial and plastic surgery for the management of head and neck problems that involve the brain and cranial cavity and complex facial structures and sometimes the neck.
Other specialities such as ophthalmology, ENT and paediatric surgery, speech and language therapy, genetics and the dental surgical specialities will be variably involved according to the nature of the individual problem.
The medico-legal issues relating to geriatric care in general practice are much the same as those affecting any other medical speciality or age group. It is however important to understand that older patients often have multiple problems and multiple treatments, and so the risks to them and of the clinician making mistakes can be higher.
Notwithstanding, there are some important areas of medico-legal complexity worthy of discussion.
An estimated 50,000 people in the UK who were born deaf or became deaf at an early age use British Sign Language (BSL) as their preferred language. BSL – the language of the british deaf community - is one of many sign languages found throughout the world.
Although signers also use fingerspelling – the representation of letters of the alphabet on the hands to represent ‘foreign’ words (i.e. words from written english), BSL is not ‘english on the hands’ – it has a very different grammar and there is no one-toone correspondence between BSL signs and english words, any more than there is such a correspondence for any two unrelated spoken languages.
