Author: Hjortsø, Tina ; Lieth, Lars von der ; & Carlsen, Camilla ; editors: [ European Society for Mental Health and Deafness ]
Title: Mental Health Services for Deaf People : A Worldwide Perspective : Proceedings of the 5th European & 2nd World Conference..,
Description: Copenhagen, Society for Mental Health, (2001). orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, 573 pp. TWO VOLUMES.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Proceedings of the 5th European & 2nd World Conference on Mental Health and Deafness ; University of Copenhagen, 18th-21st October 2000. Contains 59 papers concerning Mental Health & Deaf Children; Mental Health & Deaf Adults: The Organizing of Mental Health Services for Deaf Adults; Mental Health & Elderly Deaf People; Mental Health & Deafness in Views of Personal Identity & Integrity; Mental Health & Deafness in a Broader Perspective; Professionals in the Field of Mental Health & Deafness: In General & in Views of Deaf Professionals, Mental Health & Abuse: Deaf Abusers & Abused Deaf People; Deaf People with Multiple Disabilities. Includes: Some Existential Questions Related to Deafness: About the Conditions of Inclusion of the Impossibility for Inclusion; The Wellness Model: A Response to the Attacks on Deaf People's Psychological Integrity by Cochlear Implant Advocates; Hard-of-Hearing & Camouflage; The Fight for Consolidation of an Authentic Identity in the Argentine Deaf Adolescent; Socio-emotional Functioninfg of Deaf & Hearing Adolescent Boys: A Comparative Study Based on the Lüscher Colour Test; Mechanisms of Identity Disorders in Deaf Children of Hearing Parents; Medicalization of Deafness: Health Care Professionals' Genetic Investigations & Incest Fantasies; Rituals of Death & Dying in a Village for the Deaf; etc.

Keywords: Deafness, Deaf, Psychology, Psychiatry, Mental Health, , , ,