title: Cleft palate patients--the social work approach.
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.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012947:Social Work