1. Cleft Palate Patients—The Social Work Approach
- Author
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Edith Zirpoli and Philip Starr
- Subjects
Male ,Gerontology ,Social Work ,Health (social science) ,Social work ,Cleft Lip ,Infant, Newborn ,MEDLINE ,Infant ,Maturity (finance) ,Infant newborn ,Cleft Palate ,Child, Preschool ,Humans ,Female ,sense organs ,Child ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Psychology - Abstract
From birth to maturity, the needs of cleft lip and cleft palate patients change. For such patients, fixed teams of specialists headed by a surgeon may not be the best answer. The authors outline theclinicl characteristics of both deformities and show how social workers are uniquely equipped to coordinate a changing constellation of helpers in an adaptable form of long-term treatment.
- Published
- 1976
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