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Article: Individuals with intellectual disability and mental illness: a literature review.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Australian Journal of Social Issues
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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People with intellectual disability may be limited not only in their cognitive and adaptive behaviour skills, but also by emotional and behavioural disorders that further limit their ability to learn new skills, adapt to changing environments and develop appropriate social interaction skills. When these disorders are of a sufficient severity and intensity, they may constitute a diagnosable psychiatric disorder (Einfeld & Tonge, 1996). Hence when intellectual disability is complicated by mental illness, the common clinical term "dual diagnosis" is used to describe these individuals (Bongiorno, 1996; Matson & Sevin, 1994; Lovell & Reiss, 1993). The term "dual diagnosis" ...