Diagnosis and drugs: help or hindrance when people with learning disabilities have psychological problems?
A wide range of prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders in people with learning disabilities has been reported, and as yet, there appears to be no general consensus on how to improve the process of diagnosis in order to achieve better agreement. Distinguishing behavioural disturbance from psychiat...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 26 - 34 |
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| Formato: | review Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2001
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