In children and young people, complex and prolonged dental treatment can sometimes be met with resistance despite previously successful treatment appointments. While this has traditionally been referred to as a ‘loss of cooperation’ or ‘non-compliance’, these children may actually be experiencing ‘...
Among other health professionals, the general dentist may play a crucial role; moreover, it is this professional who takes care of the family’s dental health and is often the one with whom the child has his/her first dental visit. Despite its preventable nature, caries is still one of ...
A good illustration of this approach is the decision referred to in the introduction to compel a competent 17-year-old to undergo a forced blood transfusion against his wishes. Another example is the current treatment of children’s views under the Family Law Act in Australia. Such views are ...
His family’s intervention with the warden ultimately prompts the Captain of the jail to disguise the truth of Clark’s rape and murder, as well as the sexual crimes Clark has committed, daring bystanders to this egregious performance of power and privilege to break the cycle of violence that...
This included factors such as any prior awareness of the finding or language the family were already familiar with. “You just have to take it on an individual basis because by the time he got to us he knew there was a gene fault in the family.” (clinical geneticist, 25 years practice...