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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephen Ruedrich
Stephen Ruedrich*
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Case School of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, 2500 MetroHealth Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44109, USA, email [email protected]
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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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International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 20 - 22
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