Imbecility and How Chaplains
can Manage People with Imbecility
Imbecility is known to be:
·
Amentia.
·
Total
want of understanding.
·
Craziness.
·
The
state of being broken in mind.
·
Weakness
of intellect.
·
Dementia.
·
Total
loss of thought and reason.
·
Feebleness
of understanding or mind, particularly at old age.
·
Stupidity,
foolishness (mona).
·
Retardation,
more severe than moron, but not as severe as idiots.
Imbecile: This is known to be:
·
Destitute
of strength either body or mind.
·
Feeble,
impotent, especially mental weakness and feeble mindedness.
·
Impotent,
one who is mentally or morally weak or insufficient (simpleton). For instance,
at age 40, one has a mental age of 3-7 years.
Moron: This is known to be person of
sub-normal intelligence.
Moronic: Having a mental age of between 7-12
year mental deficiency.
An Idiot: This is considered as:
·
An
unlearned, ignorant or simple person, as distinguished from educated, an
ignoramus.
·
A
human being destitute of ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital
development or accidental.
·
Commonly
a person without understanding from birth, a natural fool (simpleton).
·
A
term of reproach.
Beloved chaplains, from our understanding of the various
definitions above; we know imbecility comes in various shapes, shades and
degrees. Some are more severe than others, and they can occur either as
congenital deficits, developmental deficits or accidental deficits.
When imbecility of any degree has occurred, then comes our
responsibilities as professional chaplains to help the parents or relation to
manage them and give them meaning in life.
There is yet no known cure to imbecility medically, yet people
who suffer from imbecility can be assisted to perform better, as we know they
lack normal understanding and have weakness of intellect and reasoning.
NB: Giving them a task that will make them think beyond their
powers is futility.
How then can they be assisted
by Professional Chaplains?
1.
Tasks
which they are expected to perform must be broken down for them by the care
provider.
2.
Since
they have mental and reasoning deficiencies; the care provider must be prepared
to be their think-tank, thinking, reasoning and planning for their benefits in
order to compensate for their intellectual weakness.
3.
The
care providers must learn to shield them away from venturing into what is
capable of making their conditions worse.
4.
Since
total loss of memory is inclusive in imbecility, care providers must help to
put in place what will remind people suffering from imbecility and dementia of
what to do from time to time.
5.
Imbecility
is an incurable weakness of the mind, intellect and reasoning, yet care
providers have duties to make life better and more meaningful for them even in
their predicament.
Imbecility of any degree whatsoever is not insanity and does
not require the services of psychiatric doctors. It however requires the
services, attention and concern of professional chaplains.
This care is done or carried out for a pay and economic
purposes. This gives the care providers the opportunity to negotiate terms and
pay before they begin to offer such services. This is not the kind of
assignment volunteers go into for it is a lifelong assignment.
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Chap. David Mike-Jacobs
CPC, CPST, BCC.
Professor of
Anthropology, Certified Chaplaincy Educator & Trainer.
Blog: thechaplain1.blogspot.com
26th March,
AD2019
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