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Tytuł oryginału: Psychosocial factors in chronic disability.
Autorzy: Pearce J. M. S.
Źródło: Med. Sci. Monitor 2002: 8 (12) s.RA275-RA281, bibliogr. 45 poz.
Sygnatura GBL: 313,278

Hasła klasyfikacyjne GBL:
  • psychiatria i psychologia

    Typ dokumentu:
  • tytuł obcojęzyczny

    Wskaźnik treści:
  • ludzie

    Streszczenie angielskie: If adopted without adequate cause, the lifestyle of an invalid is a grave misfortune for the patient and for its reflection on current social attitudes that foster such states. Psychological illnesses are frequently invoked and are often of genuine source of suffering and disability. However, patients who may be rewarded by large financial settlements in courts, may also on occasion exaggerate their claims. Modern society has established systems of support, and rulings in court proceedings that conduce to illness behaviour. To some extent the portentous diagnostic labels given to these patients fosters rather than alleviates illness. It is probable that biological factor deriving from the primary event initiate the process. In medical terms, the symptoms and disabilities are often discrepant with the initial illness or injury. The patients' behaviour arises out of a desire to attaim the sick for secondary gain. If society eliminated th stigma of psychological illness, and opposed exaggregation and stimulation of illness, then such chronic disability with 'retreat into illness' might disappear. Sometimes an assumed illness becomes an adopted way of life. The unfortunate patients may come to believe they are ill; symptoms then persist after settelement. It is wrong to blame everything on society and to deny the free choice of the individual. Nevertheless, the pressures of society can be difficult to withstand for those no gifted with resillence. We should also recognise and try to eliminate the contribution mady by doctors and health workers who mistakenly aid and...

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