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Regulation therapy by Castillo-Morales in children with Down syndrome: primary and secondary orofacial pathology.

Since Castillo-Morales developed the Orofacial Regulation Therapy for children with Down syndrome in the mid 1970s, close observation of orofacial symptoms in the growing child has led to new findings. Primary orofacial signs are present at birth through age one; secondary alterations develop with untreated school-age children. A synopsis of the most important disorders in children with Down syndrome is given. Findings that relate to malfunction are summed up; these findings can be influenced by Orofacial Regulation Therapy.

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PubMed1990

Ethical components of caring.

The meanings of caring that emerge from the ethics literature are professional value; personal value; understanding humankind's existence; understanding meaning of values, choices, and priority systems; moral decision making; dignity; worth; healing powers within; being treated as a person; and partners in treatment. These meanings of caring are incorporated into the practice realm of critical care nurses. Clients in the critical care units demand a nurse who will treat them with respect, understanding, dignity, worth, partnership; provide choices; understand their values; guide them in moral decision making; and empower their healing capacities. As technology continues to explode, more and more ethical dilemmas will evolve and the critical care nurse will need to bridge the advancing technology with human caring. Then her expert nursing care will make the empowering difference in the client's care.

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PubMed1990

Impacting moral reasoning in allied health students.

This study was designed to assess the relative impact of a course in biomedical ethics on the moral reasoning skills of junior-level students in a school of allied health. A pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design was used. The course was found to significantly impact principled moral reasoning scores as measured by Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT). Male-female differences in DIT score changes were also suggested. The nature of the instruction appears paramount to possible changes in moral thinking, indicating that moral education programs need to emphasize dilemma discussion in their formats.

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Reproductive gifts and gift giving: the altruistic woman.

Reproductive gift relationships must be seen in their totality, not just as helping someone have a child. Noncommercial surrogacy cannot be treated as a mere act of altruism--any valorizing of altruistic surrogacy and reproductive gift-giving must be assessed within the wider context of women's political inequality.

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PubMed1989

A comparison of personality characteristics, family relationships, and drug-taking behavior in low and high socioeconomic status adolescents who are drug abusers.

Low socioeconomic status (SES) and high SES adolescents who met the DSM-III criteria for drug abuse were compared with respect to personality characteristics, family relationships, and drug-taking behavior. SES was determined by parents' income, education, and occupation. The two groups did not differ significantly with respect to self-esteem, quality of family relationships, impulse control, moral development, and drug-taking behavior. However, high SES adolescents were more depressed (p less than .009) and more anxious (p less than .02) than low SES adolescents, and these findings lent support to the argument that low and high SES drug abusers differ in personality and therefore require different kinds of treatment interventions.

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PubMed1986

Death, dying, and the brain.

These cases have been cited and these issues presented to make the point that principles are often out of phase with perceptions. The argument is not that principles should cede to perceptions. This would imply resignation to the unlikelihood of moral development. Neither do we claim that perceptions should simply and generally capitulate to principles. This could mean an intolerable dictatorship of one philosophy over experience. Clinical ethics is the challenge to integrate principles and perceptions continuously and critically in resolving value conflicts about the best care of individual patients.

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Professional and bureaucratic role conceptions and moral behavior among nurses.

This descriptive study tested the relationship between professional and bureaucratic role conceptions and moral behavior. It was theorized that professional-bureaucratic role conceptions of nurses, and their perceptions of the discrepancy between ideal and actual values influence the manner in which they practice and operationalize their professional values, including moral behavior. Data were obtained from 217 practicing nurses representing different positions, areas of practice, education, age, ethnic groups, and work settings. Two of the subscales of Nursing Role Conceptions (Pieta, 1976) were used to measure professional and bureaucratic role conceptions; moral behavior was measured by Judgments About Nursing Decisions (Ketefian, 1981). Professional categorical role conception was positively related to moral behavior. Professional normative role conception and professional role discrepancy were negatively related. Bureaucratic role discrepancy was found to be positively related to moral behavior. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that the combination of professional normative and bureaucratic normative role conceptions, professional categorical and bureaucratic categorical role conceptions, and professional and bureaucratic role discrepancies explained greater variance in moral behavior than either one of the pairs of variables alone. The interactions between these variables were not significant.

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PubMed1983

Big me and little me: a Chinese perspective on self.

To achieve peace and harmony in this world, it is essential to recognize our common humanity across differing cultures. However, our enthusiasm for universal principles may at times lead us unknowingly to advocate what is in fact an ethnocentric attitude, hindering mutual understanding. Simpson's (1974) attack on moral development research attests to this. On the other hand, attempts to compare and contrast cultural differences may result in oversimplification. To steer a course between the Scylla of parochialism and the Charybdis of superficiality, the present paper will explore a Chinese perspective regarding a common human condition.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Dental student response to moral dilemmas.

This study was performed to test whether there is any difference in the manner in which freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior dental students respond to dental moral dilemmas. An instrument composed of three dental moral dilemmas was completed by 483 dental students during the first day of class of the fall 1979 semester. An analysis of the results showed that freshmen rated principled reasons more highly than sophomores, juniors, and seniors. It appears that the differences in response to moral dilemmas exist early in the dental educational process, even before students have substantial clinical experience.

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