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Autistics in Dental Clinics
This chapter begins with a summary of the literature that answers the research questions about autistics in dental settings. This is followed by a...
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Anxiety immediately before endodontic treatment: cross-sectional quantitative analysis
IntroductionEndodontic treatments are considered by the patients to be one of the most painful and anxiety-generating procedures and this feeling may...
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Dental Neglect
This chapter is an overview of dental neglect and its implications. Dental neglect is defined and proposed scales of assessment are explored. Broad...
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A Reflection on the Current Status of Animal-Assisted Therapy in India
The field of animal-assisted therapy is advancing quickly throughout the world gaining popularity as a complementary therapy. Several countries,...
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Universal Healthcare and Health Assurance Through Healthcare Industry and Market Mechanisms: Evidence Versus Ideology
In 2013 the Planning Commission (PC) of India outlined a new strategy for health in the Twelfth Plan period, 2012–2017, for rolling out Universal...
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What Happens at a Dental Surgery When the Patient is a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder? An Italian Study
Oral health care can be a difficult experience for a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), for their family and for the dentist. The purpose of...
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The Feedback Session of an Autism Assessment: A Sco** Review of Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations
This review aimed to assess the quality and content of recommendations for delivering an autism diagnosis, published internationally within clinical...
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Integrative Oncology in the United States: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center programme as prototype
Over the last two decades, cancer treatment has become increasingly sophisticated, resulting in high cure rates. But these treatments also cause...
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Ethical Issues in Clinical Services and Research
In what may be the last chaxpter written of my professional career, I may cause considerable discussion and debate because the topic of this chapter...
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Neil Schneiderman, PhD, was born February 24, 1937. He is James L. Knight Professor of Health Psychology, Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral...
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The Dental Subscale of the Children's Fear Survey Schedule: Predictive Value and Clinical Usefulness
This study reports on the predictive value and clinical usefulness of the Dutch parental version of the Dental Subscale of the Children's Fear Survey...
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Comparing the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Child Behavior Checklist: Is Small Beautiful?
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief behavioral screening questionnaire that can be completed in 5 minutes by the parents or...
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Child and adolescent psychiatry in the United Kingdom
Child and adolescent psychiatry is recognised by the governmental Department of Health as a specialty of psychiatry but the boundaries of its...
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A Short History of the Institutionalization of Involuntary Sexual Mutilation in the United States
For the past 130 years, the American medical industry has been involved in the business of removing part or all of the external sexual organs of male...
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Appraisal of behavioral measurement techniques for assessing dental anxiety and fear in children: A review
The aim of this article is to review and evaluate behavioral and physiological measurement techniques frequently used to assess dental anxiety and...
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Preventative Strategies
The prevention of fears and anxiety disorders in childhood has received very little attention. This omission is perhaps not surprising, given that...
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Hel** Children Cope With Painful Medical Procedures
Pain has been defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of...
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Teaching Psychotherapy to Medical Students
In British schools, pupils have to decide on Art or Science specialization when they reach 15–16 years of age, following the General Certificate of...