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Societal and cultural aspects of autism or sociology of autism [1] come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies, and how autism affects the definition of personhood. [2] The autistic community is divided primarily into two camps; the autism rights movement and the pathology paradigm.
Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and writer. [1]Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the ...
She later obtained a Bachelor's degree in Public Health Nursing from St. John's University, Brooklyn, in 1951, and a Master's degree in Mental Health Nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, in 1954. [2] She served as a professor at the Yale School of Nursing with a focus on psychiatry until her retirement. [citation needed]
The Yale Child Study Center is a department at the Yale University School of Medicine. The center conducts research and provides clinical services and medical training related to children and families. Topics of investigation include autism and related disorders, [1] Tourette syndrome, other pediatric mental health concerns, parenting, and ...
ASD averages a 4.3:1 male-to-female ratio. The number of children on the autism spectrum has increased dramatically since the 1980s, at least partly due to changes in diagnostic practice; it is unclear whether prevalence has actually increased; [3] and as-yet-unidentified environmental risk factors cannot be ruled out. [4]
Fred Robert Volkmar (born 1950 in Illinois) [1] is a psychiatrist, psychologist, and the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale School of Medicine. [2] From 2006 to 2014, he was the director of the Yale Child Study Center and the head of child psychiatry at Yale New Haven Hospital. Prior to these ...
Degrees offered include the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing, and the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree. The school of nursing offers degrees in several Nurse Practitioner (NP) specialties such as Family NP, Adult-Gerontology Primary/Acute Care NP, Pediatric Primary/Acute Care NP, Psychiatric-Mental Health NP, Women's Health NP, and Nurse-Midwifery.
He is the first chief of autism and related disorders at the Marcus Autism Center, a wholly owned subsidiary of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Klin will also be a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at Emory University and director of the Division of Autism and Related Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Pediatrics at the ...