Psychiatric practice for intellectual disability in the USA: challenges and advances

Individuals with intellectual disability are thought to make up at least 1% of the population, and it is estimated that approximately one-third of them have a comorbid psychiatric disorder (Harris, 2006). These ‘dually diagnosed’ individuals present a particular diagnostic and therapeutic challenge....

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Autor principal: Ruedrich, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2009
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Special Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507976
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description Individuals with intellectual disability are thought to make up at least 1% of the population, and it is estimated that approximately one-third of them have a comorbid psychiatric disorder (Harris, 2006). These ‘dually diagnosed’ individuals present a particular diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. A difficulty facing psychiatry in the USA over the past several decades has been to interest and educate a sufficient number of psychiatrists to meet the mental health needs of this group of patients (Department of Health and Human Services, 2002).
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spelling pubmed-67348652019-09-10 Psychiatric practice for intellectual disability in the USA: challenges and advances Ruedrich, Stephen Int Psychiatry Special Paper Individuals with intellectual disability are thought to make up at least 1% of the population, and it is estimated that approximately one-third of them have a comorbid psychiatric disorder (Harris, 2006). These ‘dually diagnosed’ individuals present a particular diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. A difficulty facing psychiatry in the USA over the past several decades has been to interest and educate a sufficient number of psychiatrists to meet the mental health needs of this group of patients (Department of Health and Human Services, 2002). The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2009-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6734865/ /pubmed/31507976 Text en © 2009 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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title_full_unstemmed Psychiatric practice for intellectual disability in the USA: challenges and advances
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