Note

There is going to be a CEPEG Conference on 13th of March at Horton Lodge, at which I am going to give a foreword about the history of UK's adult CE. It is planned to be based on Andrew Sutton's article on the same case.
He mentioned Ronni Nanton's name there, and in his knol as well.

How will I find out about such things in future, without Gill and her library? How will other people at the conference manage?

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I wish to keep my appearance

Turns out, I am too busy recently - but because I wish to keep my appearance here on the blog I thought to share one of my activities which keeps me away pretty often from writing it.

I work on an investigation:

Title:
An exploratory study of the rehabilitation of physical disabled adults in a group setting with particular reference to Conductive Education


Aim of the investigation:

1. To explore the characteristics of the delivery of adult CE in a group setting
2. To investigate the relationship between the cognitive, social, emotional and functional dimensions of the delivery of Conductive Education in a group setting and its impact on the experience of rehabilitation amongst a group of physically disabled adults
3. To examine the experience of rehabilitation in a group setting in another rehabilitation context
4. To compare and contrast the two settings.

Engel's Biopsychosocial Model

Have you ever heard about the Biopsychosocial Model? It is almost a 50 years old challenge. At the practical level, it is a way of understanding the patient’s subjective experience as an essential contributor to accurate diagnosis, health outcomes, and humane care.

The (late) George Engel believed that to understand and respond adequately to patients’ suffering—and to give them a sense of being understood—clinicians must attend simultaneously to the biological, psychological, and social dimensions of illness. He offered a holistic alternative to the prevailing biomedical model that had dominated industrialized societies since the mid-20th century. His new model came to be known as the biopsychosocial model. He formulated his model at a time when science itself was evolving from an exclusively analytic, reductionistic, and specialized endeavor to become more contextual and cross-disciplinary. Engel did not deny that the mainstream of biomedical research had fostered important advances in medicine, but he criticized its excessively narrow (biomedical) focus for leading clinicians to regard patients as objects and for ignoring the possibility that the subjective experience of the patient was amenable to scientific study. Engel championed his ideas not only as a scientific proposal, but also as a fundamental ideology that tried to reverse the dehumanization of medicine and disempowerment of patients. His model struck a resonant chord with those sectors of the medical profession that wished to bring more empathy and compassion into medical practice.

Source: http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/2/6/576

George Engel (1913 - 1999)

When these ideas were forming in the early 1950s, he had already made a name for himself in neurology and medicine through his studies of fainting, delirium, and ulcerative colitis and was beginning the studies that would document the correlation of loss with the onset of a variety of diseases.

Treatments of CP and Motor Delay

"Physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, teachers, and nursery nurses welcome indisciplinary groups as they can then see the total child and the relationship of their speciality to those of the others in total function. On planning and using structured group session the different disciplines are enabled to share their knowledge with one other so that practical integrated group activities can be created. Different disciplines have then to clarify their main aims with each child and make certain they are understood by everyone in the planning of the programme and in its execution. It is not possible for each professional to convey all her expertise to the other different disciplines, but rather to learn how to discover the overlap of her particular discipline with others. In this way the overlap becomes a practical achievement and enriches the teamwork."

Written by Sophie Levitt in Treatment of Cerebral Palsy and Motor Delay, (p. 268-269) Blackwell, Fourth edition, 2004

....and how lucky to be trained as a Conductive Education Teacher. You do not necessarily need the time to discuss main aims and share those knowledge before puting structured group into action. You are able to see the "total child"....so on

Comment

I have found this in between the comments, so I thought to make it more public to put it as a post.


Dear László,

Is it right to regard it merely as a (suspicious) business enterprise when someone tries to help people deal with real problems? As well known to you, the Pető Institute has achieved great success in adopting conductive education for adults, especially those with Parkinsonism and MS. Probably due to our results, the interest has grown considerably in the UK as well.
Thus we would like to provide the opportunity for those interested, rather than learning about our work from hearsay, to make an organised, active “visit” to Budapest and apart from getting information on conductive education and the related options on the spot, see the beauty and visit the baths of our capital.
For the time being, there has only been some conversation about this possibility. We certainly seem to interfere with business interests if concerning the “talks” which in fact was only a lunch among friends, we have to encounter presumptions of shady ideas with miss-spelt names.

What do you think?

Interesting

Regarding to the "advertisement of the Able magazine" issue, here is what I have found:

First, I made a phone call using the given number 07968598281.
Surprisingly, there was a Hungarian young lady on the other side of the line, called Timea Zuranyi. She is not a CE professional but wants to create a business through Conductive Education. She is a representative of the New Start Employment Agency UK, as she has described to me, and tries to set up as a travel agency adult CP, Head injury Parkinson or MS groups to visit Budapest & have Conductive Education during the summer school holiday period in Hungary. She has just returned from Budapest. She visited Villanyi ut, Budapest on Friday and talked about the possible business with Tunde Krokko (??), Laszlo Onodi and Andras Krokovai (??) - sorry I am not sure about the spelling of the names.
So, this is all, just an other business who would like to live on CE on its own way.
What do you think?

I was told to look up some information on the website for csci under directory of care services.

http://www.csci.org.uk

Here is the comment...

I will keep very short this comment since I have very limited time to spend by my computer this evening but I really wanted to express couple of my thoughts regarding that advertisement.


It seems that the author has not got a clue at all what he/she is writing about. He/she must have heard only recently about “the world famous”. - Ok, that is not unique in the media.
It depicts as adult conductive education would not have known at all in UK and people have never had any experience of “highly skilled and experienced staff” of conductive education having “cerebral palsy, and other muscular weaknesses”. In fact, they have. I think adult conductive education is a boosting area of CE in the UK recently as after a long lonely work of NICE new services can be found throughout the country offering the possibility of CE in Britain for adults, too. Beside NICE’s great approach Percy Hedley, New Castle, Magan Baker House, Moreton Eye, or Independent Conductive Education Services in the North West area just launched (in the last two years) their services for Parkinson diseased, head injured, MS conditioned adult people.

Visit:
http://www.i-ce-s.com/
http://www.meganbakerhouse.org.uk/
http://www.percyhedley.org.uk/
http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/