Understanding Disability: Types, Classification, and Global Impact
Disability:
This term defines the impact of impairments on an individual’s life rather than focusing on the causes of the impairments themselves.
Impairment:
Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure.
Disability:
A restriction or lack of ability (resulting from an impairment) to perform an activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.
Handicap:
A disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or disability, that limits
Read MoreUnderstanding 42 CFR Part 2: Substance Abuse Confidentiality
Substance Abuse and Confidentiality: 42 CFR Part 2
Applicability: Any information (including referral and intake) about alcohol and drug abuse patients obtained by a program
Includes (but not limited to):
- Treatment or rehab programs
- EAP
- Programs within a general hospital
- School-based programs
- Private practitioners who provide alcohol or drug abuse diagnosis, treatment, or referral
Intent of 42 CFR Part 2 insure that an alcohol or drug abuse patient is not made more vulnerable by reason of the availability
Read MoreUnderstanding Consciousness, Sleep, and Sensation: A Comprehensive Guide
-What is consciousness? Our awareness of our environment and ourselves. -What is dual processing? Which track (conscious or unconscious) processes information in parallel? Which track processes information serially? Dual processing is the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious & unconscious tracks. It is the unconscious track that processes information in parallel. Serial conscious processing processes information serially. – What is selective attention?
Read MoreSensation and Perception: A Comprehensive Guide to How We Experience the World
What is consciousness? Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is dual processing? Which track (conscious or unconscious) processes information in parallel? Which track processes information serially? Dual processing is the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious & unconscious tracks. Unconscious information processing occurs simultaneously on multiple parallel tracks. Track information serially serial conscious processing
What is selective
Read MoreCognitive Development and Piaget’s Stages
What is Cognitive Development?
It is the set of transformations that occur in the course of life, in the form of knowing and the ability to perceive, think, understand, and solve practical problems of everyday life.
Stages of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget
- Sensorimotor Stage (0 months to 2 years)
- Preoperational Stage (2 years to 7 years)
- Concrete Operational Stage (7 years to 12 years)
- Formal Operational Stage (12 years and up)
Sensorimotor Stage
The infant knows the world through its sensory and
Read MoreClassification and Effects of Various Drugs
* Classification of Drugs: * As He Promised: * Drug Peace: They promise some form of peace, to soften the moral consciousness (alcohol or ether), for direct analgesia (morphine and codeine), to induce euphoria (heroin); suffocation of the brain (neuroleptics) or psychic brutalization (barbiturates, sedatives, and tranquilizers like Valium). These drugs cause addictiveness. * Drug Energy: They promise some form of energy such as cocaine, crack cocaine, caffeine… Their abuse is harmful, and their
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