Motor Neurone Disease by Margaret Hunter

Motor Neurone Disease by Margaret Hunter

Motor Neurone Disease is one of the most difficult conditions to manage medically and socially. A disease which leads to the loss of control of most muscle systems of the body, it has no known cause and no cure. For this reason, clinicians have traditionally been reluctant to reveal the diagnosis to sufferers or their families and the condition has become known as one of the best kept secrets of medical practice. However in recent years a number of organizations have set up to support sufferers and their families and consequently, the public profile of the condition has changed dramatically. Motor Neurone Disease provides an extremely helpful guide to the medical facts relating to the condition and considers the psycho-social effects on sufferers and those who care for them. It will be essential reading for doctors, nurses, social workers, physio-, speech and occupational therapists as well as all those suffering from Motor Neurone Disease, their families and carers.

'I did enjoy reading this book, and found it enlightening to have an insight from the MND patien'ts view' - Therapy Weekly February 25 1999

Margaret Hunter is a Child Psychotherapist, with seventeen years' experience of working with children in care. Trained at the Tavistock Clinic, she is now head of Child psychotherapy at the Maudsley NHS Trust and continues to work with fosteresd children at the Integrated Support Programme in Kent. She Contributed to the Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (Routledge 1999).

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ISBN 13	9780415097116
ISBN 10	0415097118
Title	Motor Neurone Disease
Author	Margaret Hunter
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1998-04-16
Number of pages	156
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