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Psychiatry (Abingdon). 2009 Nov 01;8(11):448-452. doi: 10.1016/j.mppsy.2009.08.003.

Psychiatry of Intellectual and Developmental Disability in the US: Time for a New Beginning.

Psychiatry (Abingdon, England)

Kerim M Munir

Affiliations

  1. The Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA.

PMID: 20161399 PMCID: PMC2783619 DOI: 10.1016/j.mppsy.2009.08.003

Abstract

Although psychiatry in the United States owes its origins to the treatment of persons with intellectual disabilities (ID), over the past 50 years, clinical services, education of professionals and research in psychiatry of ID have consistently lagged behind other fields in psychiatry. The historical and contemporary reasons for this development are discussed with recommendations for establishment of a fully credentialed subspecialty of Psychiatry of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the United States.

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