Intellectual disability: an Italian perspective

Italy is a country that has a very long tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages, of offering assistance to people with all kinds of disabilities. The approach taken to intellectual disability in recent times can be divided into two periods: before and after the enactment of Law 180 in 1978. That l...

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Autores principales: La Malfa, Giampaolo, Cabras, Pierluigi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2007
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Special Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507902
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spelling pubmed-67347622019-09-10 Intellectual disability: an Italian perspective La Malfa, Giampaolo Cabras, Pierluigi Int Psychiatry Special Paper Italy is a country that has a very long tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages, of offering assistance to people with all kinds of disabilities. The approach taken to intellectual disability in recent times can be divided into two periods: before and after the enactment of Law 180 in 1978. That law set in train a profound reform of Italy’s public sector psychiatric care, which principally involved the closure of the psychiatric hospitals and the establishment of a system of community care. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2007-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6734762/ /pubmed/31507902 Text en © 2007 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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