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Teaching Hand-Laundering to a Woman with Mental Handicap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Yvonne Williams
Yvonne Williams
Affiliation:
St. Mary's Convent, London
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Abstract

Hand-laundering of tights and knickers was taught to a woman with moderate mental handicap. The 14-stage programme was taught over five sessions in a total of 90 minutes. At follow-up she was shown to have both maintained and generalised the skills.

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Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 139 - 143
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1988

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