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A Miles

Publications and source records attributed to A Miles.

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PubMed1979

Some psycho-social consequences of multiple sclerosis: problems of social interaction and group identity.

The study was concerned with the psycho-social consequences for married couples of multiple sclerosis being contracted by one of the partners. In particular, problems of social interaction and group identity were explored. In determining their mode of interaction with healthy people such couples can choose between normalizing, i.e. endeavouring to carry on their relationships with other people according to their pre-illness pattern, or of disassociating, i.e. turning away from former associates and seeking a new peer group among others with like affliction. In nearly every case husband and wife agreed on the choice of stratagem, a majority of the couples forming the sample opting for disassociation. Membership of the Multiple Sclerosis Society was much more usual among the disassociating couples than among those 'normalizing'. The variables of age, sex, social class and severity of illness were not found to affect the mode of interaction, whereas place of residence and medical interest in them, as perceived by patients and their spouses, were influencing factors.

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PubMed1977

Staff relations in psychiatric hospitals.

This study is concerned with the roles of doctors, nurses, occupational therapists and social workers in psychiatric hospitals, as perceived by members of these occupations. Fifty-one respondents from three psychiatric hospitals were interviewed. Information was sought concerning the ways respondents evaluate (a) occupational importance, (b) occupational competence and (c) inter-group contacts. Most respondents regarded the occupational importance of psychiatrists as being higher than that of the non-medical occupations. There was, however, disagreement among the various groups regarding their specific roles and areas of occupational competence. Existing inter-group contacts were evaluated as much less satisfactory by non-medical staff than by psychiatrists.

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Caring for families when a child dies.

The death of a child is unthinkable; it conjures up thoughts of innocence...unjustified suffering...an end in the midst of a beginning... The author, hospital pastor and director of pastoral care at Children's Hospital of St. Paul, offers his personal insights to nurses and caregivers of dying children from his experience in providing spiritual support to families who have had a child die.

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