title: [Rehabilitation of patients with facial and skin disfigurement using behavior therapy desensitization in swimming pools].
abstract: On account of negative reactions encountered in their social environment, as well as unfulfillable aesthetic expectations they themselves hold concerning their physical appearance, persons with facial or other damages to the skin are weakened in their selfworth to a degree that they no longer dare to show their body. Repeated frustrations have entailed a level of sensitization that withdrawal into isolation appears the only course of action possible. In the Hornheide special clinic, an integrated rehabilitation model has been developed and tested, incorporating a special desensitization procedure by exposure to swimming pool situations, which is described in detail in the present article.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003887:Desensitization, Psychologic / Q000379:methods*; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries*; D013551:Swimming Pools
vernacular_title: Rehabilitation von Gesichts- und Hautversehrten durch verhaltenstherapeutische Desensibilisierung im Schwimmbad.