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From its earliest days, Boston decreed that its children be taught
to read and write English and understand the laws. In 1826, free
and compulsory education was introduced. The wish to educate the
young conflicted with the great need for unskilled labor in the
fields and factories. With adult wages low, schoolchildren helped
their families by selling newspapers, shining shoes, hawking goods,
or scavenging. On reaching 14 years of age, many children left
school to find full-time work. Fearing that these children would
end up in low-paying, dead-end jobs, Boston Public Schools added
trade schools to teach craft skills--carpentry, printing, and
metalwork for boys; dressmaking, cooking, and embroidery for girls.
The national struggle to ban child labor began in the mid-19th
century and ended with the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act
of 1938. This book describes the efforts in Boston and surrounding
towns to keep children in school, at least until age 16, before
permitting them to start work. The bulk of the images included were
taken by Lewis Wickes Hine during his several visits to Boston
between 1909 and 1917.
Rehabilitation provides a core concept around which to organise
support, intervention and care for people with impairments in
memory and other cognitive functions. This book introduces a
conceptual framework and rationale for the application of a
neuropsychological rehabilitation approach for people with
dementia, helping them to manage, bypass or overcome these problems
and experience optimum well-being. Methods and techniques of
cognitive rehabilitation are described and the process of
goal-setting is discussed in detail, showing how effective
strategies may be linked to form an individualised, goal-oriented
approach to intervention. The application of a rehabilitation
approach in real-life contexts is explored, demonstrating the role
and value of neuropsychological rehabilitation within a holistic,
psychotherapeutic framework of care and support. This overview of
the neuropsychological rehabilitation approach to dementia care
will be of great interest to psychologists as well as to those
studying or practising in the area.
This special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation provides an
opportunity to characterise some of the key clinical issues
concerned with assessing and managing pathologies of subjective or
conscious awareness. Elucidating the cognitive processes underlying
awareness, and their corresponding phenomenological experiences,
provides the necessary theoretical platform to inform assessments
and justify interventions aimed at compensating for, and/or
reducing the functional consequences of, impaired awareness. This
special issue represents an attempt to bring together previously
disparate research findings and conceptual issues from relevant
fields within medicine and the psychological sciences and, in so
doing, provide for a more coherent, comprehensive account which
clinicians and theoreticians can use to better understand the
apparently obvious but unwieldy construct of awareness.
The relevance of cognitive rehabilitation for people with dementia
is becoming increasingly accepted by researchers and practitioners
in the field. This special issue draws together examples of
state-of-the-art research and systematic review by experts in this
exciting and growing area. The contributors show how cognitive
rehabilitation approaches can be applied, in different ways, to
help optimise functioning and address specific difficulties across
the full spectrum of severity. While the main focus is on the more
commonly diagnosed forms of dementia, treatment possibilities for
people with fronto-temporal dementia are also explored. Cognitive
rehabilitation interventions need to be grounded in a clear
assessment of the profile of strengths and limitations in cognitive
functioning, and to demonstrate where possible that treatment
effects extend beyond improvement on target measures to have a
meaningful impact on wellbeing and quality of life. For this
reason, the special issue includes contributions that explore
detailed aspects of cognitive functioning or describe new
developments in evaluating quality of life in dementia. Cognitive
rehabilitation, it is suggested, should be viewed as one important
component of a holistic approach to helping people with dementia,
their families, and those who care for them. This special issue
seeks both to provide information about what has already been
achieved and to encourage and stimulate further progress.
This special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation provides
an opportunity to characterise some of the key clinical issues
concerned with assessing and managing pathologies of subjective or
conscious awareness. Elucidating the cognitive processes underlying
awareness, and their corresponding phenomenological experiences,
provides the necessary theoretical platform to inform assessments
and justify interventions aimed at compensating for, and/or
reducing the functional consequences of, impaired awareness. This
special issue represents an attempt to bring together previously
disparate research findings and conceptual issues from relevant
fields within medicine and the psychological sciences and, in so
doing, provide for a more coherent, comprehensive account which
clinicians and theoreticians can use to better understand the
apparently obvious but unwieldy construct of awareness.
The relevance of cognitive rehabilitation for people with dementia is becoming increasingly accepted by researchers and practitioners in the field. This special issue draws together examples of state-of-the-art research and systematic review by experts in this exciting and growing area. The contributors show how cognitive rehabilitation approaches can be applied, in different ways, to help optimise functioning and address specific difficulties across the full spectrum of severity. While the main focus is on the more commonly diagnosed forms of dementia, treatment possibilities for people with fronto-temporal dementia are also explored. Cognitive rehabilitation interventions need to be grounded in a clear assessment of the profile of strengths and limitations in cognitive functioning, and to demonstrate where possible that treatment effects extend beyond improvement on target measures to have a meaningful impact on wellbeing and quality of life. For this reason, the special issue includes contributions that explore detailed aspects of cognitive functioning or describe new developments in evaluating quality of life in dementia. Cognitive rehabilitation, it is suggested, should be viewed as one important component of a holistic approach to helping people with dementia, their families, and those who care for them. This special issue seeks both to provide information about what has already been achieved and to encourage and stimulate further progress.
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Rehabilitation provides a core concept around which to organise
support, intervention and care for people with impairments in
memory and other cognitive functions. This book introduces a
conceptual framework and rationale for the application of a
neuropsychological rehabilitation approach for people with
dementia, helping them to manage, bypass or overcome these problems
and experience optimum well-being. Methods and techniques of
cognitive rehabilitation are described and the process of
goal-setting is discussed in detail, showing how effective
strategies may be linked to form an individualised, goal-oriented
approach to intervention. The application of a rehabilitation
approach in real-life contexts is explored, demonstrating the role
and value of neuropsychological rehabilitation within a holistic,
psychotherapeutic framework of care and support. This overview of
the neuropsychological rehabilitation approach to dementia care
will be of great interest to psychologists as well as to those
studying or practising in the area.
The volume has ambitious scope and covers almost all potential
supports and services. Most of the chapters have been written by
professionals who work with people with dementia and their
families, and most are British social workers and professionals
allied-to-medicine (occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech
and language therapy).' - Ageing and Society 'Marshall, in her
introduction, states that the aim of the book is to strengthen the
link between rehabilitation and dementia and to encourage the
understanding that people with dementia do benefit from
rehabilitation and treatment. The book clearly meets this aim with
the contributors offering convincing arguments for the
conceptualisation of dementia care as rehabilitation and the
potential for improvements in symptoms and in quality of life for
people with dementia... The book is accessible, easy to read,
informative and provides practical information and new ideas useful
for practitioners, services providers, commissioners and policy
makers.' - Social Policy 'This book has much to offer a range of
professionals and those teaching them at post-qualifying levels.' -
Journal of Interprofessional Care 'The chapters give us a real and
honest appraisal of the pains and possibilities of dementia. And
David Jolley ends his chapter with what could be seen as a
surprising statement that "Life with dementia is worth Living". His
ideas sum up the tone of the book which asserts that people with
dementia still have much to give but need help in order to maintain
health, safety and dignity, and offers various practical
therapeutic models that have been worked out in different
settings... throughout the book we are encouraged to keep the
person with dementia at the centre of care and to see them as a
unique individual with a disability who needs help.' - Perspectives
on Rehabilitation and Dementia 'Service planners could gain from
dipping in to this collection and testing the extent to which their
current plans reflect the thinking shared by the authors. The
importance of team working is stated throughout, and in an era of
partnership working this provides yet another useful policy book on
which to hang revised plans' - Community Care 'Contributions from
people with dementia and their families provide the central core of
the text and anchor it firmly in reality. There is a unanimously
positive approach to rehabilitation. Many of the authors focus on
self esteem and confidence with many references to the need of
teamwork. They also share the positive view of people with
dementia, which concentrates on personhood focussing upon the whole
person, drawing upon their strengths as well as taking into account
declining abilities in some areas. This book is strongly
recommended for health care professions, particularly nursing
courses.' - London Centre for Dementia Care News 'The book explores
the positive outcomes for people with dementia in terms of quality
of life and self-esteem, especially if rehabilitation is seen as a
positive philosophy of practice as well as a set of skills and
approaches. It includes many different perspectives from a diverse
group of professionals, carers and practitioners, and people with
dementia themselves.' - Working with Older People Perspectives on
Rehabilitation and Dementia offers new insights into the
application of a well-established approach and set of skills to a
group of people who have traditionally been thought not to benefit
from them. Indeed people with dementia have missed out on physical
and psychological rehabilitation very substantially. This book
demonstrates that rehabilitation has positive outcomes for people
with dementia in terms of quality of life and self-esteem,
especially if rehabilitation is seen as a positive philosophy of
practice as well as a set of skills and approaches. The
perspectives in this book are those of a very diverse group of
professionals, carers, and people with dementia themselves.
Professional backgrounds and the settings in which they work are
diverse and include both academics and practitioners. The voices of
people with dementia underline the importance of seeing how they
understand rehabilitation for themselves. Professionals in almost
all caring professions - nursing, physiotherapy, occupational
therapy, acute, geriatric and psychiatric medicine, psychology,
social work and rehabilitation - will increasingly find themselves
working with people with dementia. They need to be alert to the
latest thinking on approaches and interventions. This book provides
a readable course text for understanding both their own
professional contribution and that of others in the team.
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