The treatment of intractable encopresis: a team intervention approach.
Childhood encopresis is discussed in terms of problems of definition, approaches to management in relation to symptoms and underlying mechanisms, and efficacy of treatment. Case histories of six intractable clinic cases are examined and an intensive team intervention programme described. Difficulties in carrying through a consistent plan are outlined: the key worker providing an essential motivational role towards participant staff, parents and child.
D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002648:Child; D004688:Encopresis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000379:methods*