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Direct linkNouko, Susanna; Sund, Reijo – Mental Retardation: A Journal of Practices, Policy and Perspectives, 2004
We examined the use of residential services for people with intellectual disabilities in Finland from a regional perspective. Our aims were to investigate how service supply and need, as well as municipal factors, impact the use of residential services and to analyze whether the available information in registers and databases can be effectively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Residential Care, Mental Retardation, Health Services
Ruusuvuori, Johanna – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2005
This paper analyzes "empathy" and "sympathy" as situated practices, sequential processes that are coconstructed by the participants in the situation. The data consists of 228 sequences of patients' descriptions of their problematic experiences and professionals' responses to them in videorecorded general practice and…
Descriptors: Altruism, Patients, Empathy, Video Technology
